# Canadian Media Guild

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| name                = Canadian Media Guild
| native_name         = Guilde Canadienne des Médias
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| headquarters        = [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), Canada
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| leader_title        = President
| leader_name         = Annick Forest
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| parent_organization = [Communications Workers of America](/source/Communications_Workers_of_America)
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The '''Canadian Media Guild''' ('''CMG''') is a [trade union](/source/trade_union) representing employees at the [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) (outside Quebec and Moncton, New Brunswick), the [Canadian Press](/source/Canadian_Press), [Thomson Reuters](/source/Thomson_Reuters), [Agence France-Presse](/source/Agence_France-Presse), the [Aboriginal Peoples Television Network](/source/Aboriginal_Peoples_Television_Network), [Corus Entertainment](/source/Corus_Entertainment),  CJRC Radio in Gatineau, Que., [TVOntario](/source/TVOntario) and [ZoomerMedia](/source/ZoomerMedia).

It is a local of the [NewsGuild-CWA](/source/NewsGuild-CWA) and is the largest media local union in North America. It was formerly known as The Canadian Wire Service Guild and was created in 1950 by employees of The Canadian Press. It expanded to CBC news writers, who carried it after a union decertification campaign at The Canadian Press succeeded. CP employees rejoined and won a contract in 1976. The guild, as it has always been known, increased in size from about 700 to more than 3,000 in 1993 when CUPE and ACTRA members at the CBC voted to join. It adopted its current name in 1994. Four years later another 400 CUPE members joined the guild and, in 2003, CBC technicians, formerly represented by the [Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada](/source/Communications%2C_Energy_and_Paperworkers_Union_of_Canada), became part of CMG in a consolidation vote.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

It is part of Ottawa-based CWA/SCA Canada, which is the Canadian arm of the 700,000-member [Communications Workers of America](/source/Communications_Workers_of_America), and also includes newspapers such as the Victoria Times Colonist, Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

In recent history, on August 15, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [locked out](/source/Lockout_(industry)) its 5,500 members in the Canadian Media Guild. The key point of contention was the broadcaster's insistence on more [temporary contracts](/source/Temporary_work) in the future while guaranteeing no change in employment status for existing employees. The dispute lasted eight weeks and ended with both sides compromising on this point.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Austen |first=Ian |date=2005-08-19 |title=Canadian Broadcasting Without the Canadians? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/business/media/canadian-broadcasting-without-the-canadians.html |access-date=2024-07-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In August 2015, the Canadian Media Guild, became a [registered third party](/source/Registered_third_parties_(Canada)) in order to speak up for better funding for the national public broadcaster, more transparency in the appointment process for the President & CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada and its board of directors, and for CBC/Radio-Canada's arm's-length relationship and independence from the government of the day.<ref>{{cite web
 | url =http://www.cmg.ca/en/2015/08/14/cmg-registers-as-a-third-party-in-the-federal-election/
 | title =CMG registers as a third party in the federal election
 | last =
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 | date =14 August 2015
 | publisher = Canadian Media Guild
 | access-date =23 October 2015
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== See also ==

* [List of NewsGuild-CWA Locals](/source/List_of_NewsGuild-CWA_Locals)

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Organized labour}}
*{{Official website}}
*[https://wayback.archive-it.org/288/*/http://www.cmg.ca/ Canadian Media Guild] – Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries

{{Canadian Labour Congress}}

Category:Entertainment industry unions in Canada
Category:Communications and media organizations based in Canada
Category:Canadian Labour Congress affiliates
Category:Communications Workers of America
Category:Trade unions established in 1950
Category:Organizations based in Toronto

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