Our thoughts and prayers are with our brother Bill Atanasoff who was seriously injured when hit by a car while performing his job as an ENG Camera Operator this week. The Local has received notes of concern and prayers for Bill and his family from many of his brothers and sisters in rest of the Media industry.Please continue to keep Bill and his family in your thoughts and prayers. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our brother Andre Johnson who passed away suddenly from cancer. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth and son Jevan. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Fellow workers are organizing a collection to help support Andre s family at this most difficult time. Your Local will be making a donation on behalf of all 723M members. If you wish to personally contribute, please see Cherisse D Souza who will be collecting donations within the Queen St. Location, or Anthony Patron who will be collecting at Agincourt. BCE/CTV deal requires a strong CRTC OTTAWA - Canadians should be provided assurances through the CRTC that the purchase of CTV by BCE will be of benefit to the public in terms of access to news diversity, and as bill-paying customers, says Canada s largest media union. "In the emerging days of online broadcasting, there was a certain inevitability that these two media giants would set up a media box store. "The CRTC must now ensure, on behalf of consumers, that such massive media power will be used to benefit all Canadians in their news and entertainment programming," says Peter Murdoch, Vice-President, Media, for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. CEP represents employees at both CTV and The Globe. "Together, the purchase of Canwest by Shaw, and Bell s purchase of CTV means that two companies now control roughly two-thirds of all broadcasting revenues in English Canada. "This is enormous power and influence which has to be balanced by a more activist CRTC, as the publicly-minded regulator," adds Murdoch. "While a stand-alone Globe offers some challenges - the brand of this prestigious newspaper is so strong that we expect the change in ownership to the Thomson family will enhance the Globe s reputation as an independent voice in the media landscape, and be of net benefit to the daily." Murdoch says the issue of the controversial fee-for-carriage, now part of a Federal Court of Appeal case, "has almost become moot because broadcasting carriers and content providers are on the same team." "But the critical issue for broadcast consumers remains: Will Canadians continue to see quality local news and information on their hometown stations? The CRTC has to muscle up in Canadians interest to balance the profit-maximizing, cost-cutting corporate interests of big media." CTV Retro Pay Explanation On Friday September 3rd, employees of CTV who are covered by the new Collective Agreement, should have received their retro pay dating back to November 1st, 2009. Upon review of the amounts paid to the employees, an error was discovered that employees were not credited for any retro pay between the period of August 9th to the 22nd.
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