Comments on: A deal at Radio-Canada http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/10/14/radio-canada-deal/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/10/14/radio-canada-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-97490 Fagstein Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:47:10 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=7203#comment-97490 I should have clarified, I'm speaking of editorial/on-air staff here. I should have clarified, I'm speaking of editorial/on-air staff here.

]]> By: Bill_the_Bear http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/10/14/radio-canada-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-97431 Bill_the_Bear Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:40:47 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=7203#comment-97431 There are certainly more than two unions at Radio-Canada. SCRC represents basically people involved in programme content, e.g. on-air hosts, production assistants and researchers for individual programmes, as well as newsroom staff. STARF represents technicial staff (e.g. studio and control room technicians), TV cameramen (if I'm not mistaken), as well as craftspeople such as set builders (where those jobs haven't been contracted out). SCFP represents clerical staff. (That's my union.) In addition there's a sort of union for some producers (mainly TV, I think, as I know of no radio producers in it) and another for lower management positions. There are certainly more than two unions at Radio-Canada.

SCRC represents basically people involved in programme content, e.g. on-air hosts, production assistants and researchers for individual programmes, as well as newsroom staff.

STARF represents technicial staff (e.g. studio and control room technicians), TV cameramen (if I'm not mistaken), as well as craftspeople such as set builders (where those jobs haven't been contracted out).

SCFP represents clerical staff. (That's my union.)

In addition there's a sort of union for some producers (mainly TV, I think, as I know of no radio producers in it) and another for lower management positions.

]]> By: Maria Gatti http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/10/14/radio-canada-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-97282 Maria Gatti Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:59:11 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=7203#comment-97282 Doc Brown, you beat me to that! The CSN union also covers the workers at the anglophone station in Québec City (a more accurate description than "anglophone workers" as obviously francophones can work for the anglophone stations and anglophones for the francophone ones if they are fluently bilingual) - AND more interestingly still, the staff of the Northern Service stations up in places where Inuktitut, Cree and other Aboriginal languages get airtime. Telecommunications remain extremely important for the people up in those sparsely-populated, harsh areas and for their cultural survival. And conversely, the staff at the francophone stations outside Québec and Moncton - especially Ottawa, but smaller stations in Toronto and points west (I don't know if there are any east of Moncton - perhaps that station covers all Atlantic Canada from l'Acadie)? Doc Brown, you beat me to that! The CSN union also covers the workers at the anglophone station in Québec City (a more accurate description than "anglophone workers" as obviously francophones can work for the anglophone stations and anglophones for the francophone ones if they are fluently bilingual) - AND more interestingly still, the staff of the Northern Service stations up in places where Inuktitut, Cree and other Aboriginal languages get airtime. Telecommunications remain extremely important for the people up in those sparsely-populated, harsh areas and for their cultural survival.

And conversely, the staff at the francophone stations outside Québec and Moncton - especially Ottawa, but smaller stations in Toronto and points west (I don't know if there are any east of Moncton - perhaps that station covers all Atlantic Canada from l'Acadie)?

]]> By: Doc Brown http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/10/14/radio-canada-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-97260 Doc Brown Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:56:35 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=7203#comment-97260 The SCRC famously got locked out in 2002. The SCRC famously got locked out in 2002.

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