State of the Union

Billion-dollar mergers are changing the nature of labour relations. In the face of nationwide media empires, can journalists rely on unions to address their concerns?

The day national columnist Catherine Ford returned to work after the Calgary Herald strike ended last summer, it was as though she’d stepped into a completely different office. Ford, who has worked at the Herald since 1981, hadn’t seen the inside of the brick building on Calgary’s 16th Street S.E. since November 8, 1999. A […]