CBC files 72-hour lockout notice

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CBC files 72-hour lockout notice

Last Updated Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:31:38 EDT
CBC News

CBC management has filed a 72-hour lockout notice, meaning job action could take place Monday morning if an agreement is not reached with the union representing 5,500 workers.

"CBC doesn't want a work stoppage and we are extremely disappointed to have to take this action," the corporation said in a communiqué Thursday night. "However, after almost 15 months of negotiations, our key issues remain unresolved."

The notice does not automatically mean that a work stoppage will occur Monday. The corporation acknowledged that both sides are still at the bargaining table.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/11/cbc-labour050811.html

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1. Well

We know what has happened in the US.

We saw what happened with the BBC.

Guess they are trying to do it to the CBC.

It also is going on elsewhere as well.

Is the Media Failing Australia?
11 August 2005
Richard Aedy: We begin with a question much closer to home: How good a job does the media do? A pretty ordinary one, according to Robert Manne. He’s a prominent political commentator and also the editor of a new book: ‘Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?’ After reading it, it’s clear that, from Professor Manne’s perspective, there’s a lot to fix.

Robert Manne: One element of the problem, and I think probably for me the biggest element of the problem, is the absurd size of the Murdoch press. Now if Murdoch and the Murdoch corporation, News, was interested only in money, that wouldn’t matter so much, but News Corporation is interested in shaping minds, worldwide I think Murdoch in a way is the most influential neo-conservative on the globe, and not as a man of ideas but as the propagator of ideas. And 60% or 70% of the Australian mainstream press is owned by Newscorp, much too large.

And the second part of the problem is the ABC has been attacked so often for being under the control of the left, that it no longer provides a kind of ballast in the balance of opinion which we need, particularly at the upper end of the market.

And the third problem, in my view, is that there’s something new in the ‘commentariat’ as it’s called, that is a very, very aggressive, right-wing kind of pack, which goes for people who dissent on all sorts of issues with a sort of viciousness that I’ve not previously experienced in Australia. It’s also had a very big effect on public debate in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1435112.htm

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2. Yeah, it's like they think you can run a network on just

COntract people, never mind having any structure or permanent people in place... fucking retarded

[justinsb]

3. I agree

I think part of what makes the CBC great is it's experience. I would bet that CBC News, for example, has more experience than any other news agency in North America, so not only do they know what they are doing, but they know the players, they know the history behind a story etc., Now they want everyone to renew their contract once a year - and rest assured, like every other modern company, they will take every opportunity to replace experience with cheap labor.