Nine Sun Media units ratify central deal on wages, benefits and job security
4-Year Deal: 0,1,1.5 & 1.5 Nine Sun Media workplaces have ratified an historic deal negotiated for the first time at a central table. A tentative deal was reached Feb.14 and ratified at votes across Ontario over the last week of […]
Unions Are Under Attack
By Cynthia Turner Secretary Treasurer, CEP Local 191 Where would Canadian workers be without unions? Would we have an 8 hour workday? Would we have Workers Compensation? Would we get time and a half for over time? Would we have […]
Supreme Court decision latest attack on pensioners
CEP national president Dave Coles has commented on the recent Supreme Court decision on pension plans caught in bankruptcy proceedings. The news release is reprinted below. Also, Brother Coles penned an opinion piece that was recently printed in newspapers across the […]
Local 191 Scholarship Essay Competition
How Have Unions Affected Professional Sports? Once again, Local 191 is offering three post-secondary scholarships to all CEP 191 members in good standing and their children, and the children of retired 191 members. The scholarships are valued at $1,250 each […]
191 Member Gets National Appointment
Sister Trilbee Stirling has been recently appointed to the CEP National Young Workers Committee.
191’s New Website
We’ve redesigned the Local’s website, making it easier to read, easier to update, and hopefully more relevant and useful to our members.
Press Release/Winnipeg Sun devastates newsroom
Nov. 13, 2012 As part of a massive layoff of one-third of its Canadian unionized workforce, Sun Media gutted its small Winnipeg Sun newsroom today by slashing six jobs, as well as cutting two in advertising.
Press Release/Free Press continues to cut jobs
Nov. 1, 2012 Free Press Continues To Cut Jobs As the Winnipeg Free Press launches its “new” Uptown product today five more workers from the old Uptown are out of work.
Time For Change, Time For Growth
Quebec City — Oct. 17, 2012 By Aldo Santin, President, CEP Local 191 The final day of this historic 10th Annual Convention ended with a flurry of resolutions and the swearing in of the new executive — for the few remaining […]
Benefits of Membership
Quebec City — Oct. 16, 2012 By Aldo Santin, President, CEP Local 191 The formal merger of CEP and CAW is still months away but you should know there will be immediate benefits with the creation of a new union.