What To Do If You Receive a Redundancy Notice
With the pink slips flying around the CBC this week, I’ve copied a note from the union, in case you didn’t receive it by email:
Today, CBC managers are beginning to hand out notices to employees whose jobs are being made redundant. If you receive a notice, you will be given time to meet with union representatives to begin to discuss the next steps.
Remember that a redundancy notice is *not* a layoff notice. You are not being told to leave your job or to leave the building. The process now begins to find you suitable work in a vacancy somewhere else at CBC or to examine the possibility of bumping a more junior employee in a job for which you are qualified. You will be given some time and some pointers to put together a list of your skills and job experiences.
Please click here for more information about the process.
Remember to check your seniority date at HR @ myfingertips. If you think it is wrong, get in touch with human resources as soon as possible with the details.
If you have any questions or concerns, talk to one of the Guild representatives in your workplace who have been trained to work through this difficult downsizing process. You are not alone. You can also write to info@cmg.ca .
In the meantime, the Guild is continuing to work hard to reverse the cuts, both through the Canadian public and decision-makers in Ottawa and through measures that Guild members can take together.
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THE union?
There’s a whole pile of unions at the CBC. We’re not all in the media guild.
Well Amanda what union are you in?
What business that of yours? Whatever one she is in, it’s still a true statement.
Just thought that the CMG was the only union for CBC/Radio-Canada outside of Quebec and Moncton. Years ago there were many unions at the CBC but that is not the case today.
From here:
“The Association of Professionals and Supervisors, APS, is a body certified by the Canada Industrial Relations Board, CIRB, since 1995 … more than 700 employees scattered across the country, are included in APS, from St. John’s to Vancouver, with a concentration of members in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.”
You may now commence the usual CMG APS-isn’t-a-real-union bollixry.
OK 2 unions hardly a pile of unions don’t you think. Lets take a look at how the 2 unions and the lock out the CBC imposed on its unionized workers in 2005. Also see how the unions behaved.
When CMG was locked out in 2005 lots of APS folks performed some CMG work that should have been performed by only management but the APS happily obliged. So if APS is a fellow union why were you doing another unions work who were locked out by the CBC.
Is that what you mean by bollixry?
Find it hard you claim your a union but quickly fill in when we’re locked outside of the building. I was wonder what kind of extra money you folks hauled in while we were denied entry to the building/
Just trying to figure out who are union members. The one locked out side the building or the other union in the building performing locked out employees functions
Perhaps it time for the APS to change the S in their name what it really means.
A group of people not in the union ready to step in and do other folks work.
Association of Professional S****
So Kev please explain how a union happily performs the functions of others with management.
How much money did I make personally? Zero, I wasn’t working here at the time. My partner was – how much did she make? Zero. Like the majority of APS members, she refused to do CMG work despite intense pressure to do so, she stopped for a few minutes at the picket line, she brought coffee for her CMG coworkers, everything short of picking up a sign.
Of course, I do know that there were APS members who did scab (I’m assuming that’s the word you you bleeped) work. As far as I know they were seriously in the minority. And I do know that APS leadership sucked over the course of the lockout, making it harder for people to stand up to pressure.
But the point is that most didn’t, it was no picnic for them on the inside either – imagine being OUTNUMBERED by CBC managers – and this bollixry that you and other shortsighted CMG folk trot out when you’re feeling particularly hardcore is a) ridiculous and b) doing management’s job for them, by allowing them to skip the dividing phase and go directly to “conquer”.
Your right Kev. It must have been hard for the APS folks to go into work everyday .
I think it’s sad and funny that the some of people handing out the redundancy notices are actually the most redundant people at the CBC.