ABOUT US
We’re media specialists
Our union represents more than 700 media workers throughout B.C., primarily the newspaper and printing industries. We also represent Purdy’s Chocolatier, which employs approximately 200 of our members in Vancouver. Our workplaces range from the province’s largest newspapers – The Vancouver Sun and The Province, to dozens of smaller community papers, including the Surrey NOW Leader, the Bowen Island Undercurrent and the Prince George Citizen. Our union is organized into four employer-based councils: Pacific Newspaper Group, Glacier, Black Press and the multi-employer council. The councils share information and coordinate strategies at regular meetings.
The Annual Congress meets in October and is the supreme decision-making body of our Local. Representatives from throughout the province meet for a few days to consider the major policies affecting the Local. This is also where our elected officers are nominated.
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Attention former CMERF Pension Plan Members, now CWIPP
Asset Transfer Notice – January 1, 2019 As most members that belong to the former Canadian Multi-Employer Retirement Fund for the Graphic Arts Media (CMERF) pension plan know, the plan is being merged into the Canada-Wide...
Local News
Mediator assists with new Tentative Agreement at StarMetro Vancouver
The bargaining committee met with the Company and mediator Dave Schaub from the BC Labour Relations Board June 17 and 18 in an effort to negotiate a first collective agreement. We are pleased to announce that a new tentative...
Industry News
LatestJournalism: In A State Of Siege
Perhaps stating the obvious–and maybe the obvious needs to be stated now and again when it’s suffocated by the shrill and the ignorant–but it’s a lousy time for journalism. How bad? Bad. In the time it takes a college journalism...
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