CBC workers are podcasting from the picket line as they’re locked out from their stations
Due to failed negotiations between the management of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the workers “the CBC locked out about 5,500 employees” (CBC News). The reasons for the dispute are the usual ones:
- management seeks to contract out an increasing part of their workforce to reduce costs and increase flexibility
- union strongly opposes this development, since temporary workers are already working in an insecured environment, where job policies based on ‘hire and fire’ makes them very vulnerable
At first this seems like a usual labour struggle, as it happens all over the world — at least where the workers are organized in unions — but even though the producers, newsroom staff and technicians are locked out of their stations, they just don’t remain silent. There are many blogs and podcasts featuring commentary and news on their struggle and beyond that about other things, too. Of course, the workers want to get back to work, yet it seems that they just don’t need no stinking transmitters.
