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OTTAWA - By over 75% of the 1600 Technical and Design workers (with a few small locations still to report) the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) members have voted to ratify the proposed agreement reached just before Christmas.
Members will get 5½ percent in wage increases over two years, and fought off several management demands for concessions, such as on industry standard overtime rates. They will return to work tomorrow, Dec 31, 2001.
However, the contentious issue of meals and sleep remains a problem. Mike Sullivan, spokesperson for CEP said, “CBC moved a long way from their original positions, but we still must hold the managers accountable for getting our members meal breaks and time between shifts. We haven’t seen the end of the issue, but hopefully over the next 18 months we can work out systems to ensure that meals and sleep breaks are not the huge problem that they have been”.
One of the concerns raised by the members in ratification meetings held this week, was the very survival of regional television. “Our members were very concerned that if CBC kept the lockout going much longer, too many viewers would turn away forever, and we would face the elimination of CBC in the regions”, said Peter Murdoch, CEP Vice-President, Media. “The very fabric of CBC journalism in regional centres was threatened, if this continued much longer,” said Murdoch.
CEP will continue its efforts started during this lockout to force some accountability for CBC’s actions. “We don’t care who ultimately addresses the issues raised by this dispute, whether that’s management, the CBC Board, or the Politicians who put them there, but the buck has to stop somewhere,” said Murdoch.
For more information:
Mike Sullivan, National Representative, 416-240-7836 Peter Murdoch, Vice-President, 905-516-5720
