CBC staff numbers on the decline, says HR head
I present, without comment, this letter which appeared in yesterday’s National Post, penned by CBC’s human resources V.P. George Smith:
CBC Bureaucracy is Shrinking
While Statistics Canada has attributed an increase in federal employees to a category that happens to include CBC/ Radio-Canada, our records actually show the number of people we employ has declined steadily over the years. In 1995, CBC/Radio-Canada had 9,015 permanent and 1,648 contract employees. As of January of this year, there were 7,387 permanent and 970 contract employees. We are very conscious of our staff size, and while the number of CBC/ Radio-Canada employees has decreased, the services we offer the Canadian public have grown.
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Talk about b.s. Our boss doesn’t even know how many shifts that will still need to be filled after the redundancy. Can you be made redundant if the job still exists? The summer will be lots of fun
Uh oh.
And what of the budget, and audience numbers over the same period of time … ?
Here’s what I love about what we do in the media…
check out the use of the word bureaucracy, which implies a complex stacked system of paper pushers and piles of red tape.
Yes, there is certainly red tape in this business, and the pod farms make our work spaces look like we’re accountants instead of broadcasters.
It’s just part of the attitude that some writers want to project concerning the groups of people it has a beef with. Public broadcasting=civil service=bloated bureaucratic structure. Hmmmm.
The CBC management stinks! Get rid of it and replace it with people who will bring back the “old” CBC.
Here’s part of those missing numbers. As of recently, well actually it takes effect April 1st, the French services parted with many workers. CBC/Radio-Canada let go of maintenance workers, which were all picked-up by our agent SncLavalin ProFac. This way the french side saves $$ that can be infused back into programming. Though call but it had to be done in order to save money ’cause let’s face it folks, who wants to wait for the Gvt to fork over more cash for our Canadian content? Btw, the workers still have jobs at CBC but under Profac.
When Sandi says “old” CBC I assume she simply means one that was important and interesting.
It’s an embarrassing achievement to take a tool so powerful as Newsworld and through neglect and incompetence make it so dull, flat and, worst of all for a news outlet, so utterly irrelevant.
What is wrong at the CBC?
And how much are those maintenance people earning now?
Dwight: The workers’ contracts were bought taking into consideration their pension and such. But the interesting thing for them is that now if they wish to move within the company, they can easily. At CBC you have to wait, most of the time, for your boss to go for you to move up. So all in all, it was a good deal for all concerned.
PS. The various unions, the workers and management were all in on the negociations. You should take a peak at the Real Estate Division’s newsletter.
We have maintenance people?