Thursday, August 25, 2005
CBC lockout XXIV: Who is hardest hit?
So who is hardest hit by the lockout?
A lot of people. But for this purposes of this blog I am going to single out a handful of managers.
I am told there are a couple of the out-of-town managers locked into the Toronto Broadcast Centre, (and perhaps more) whose partners are locked out members of the Canadian Media Guild back home in "the regions."
So CBC upper management has torn apart families in a double way. Not just the problem where one is a member of management and the other the locked out Guild. The CBC has sent one parent thousands of miles away and left the other partner to deal with all the problems at home. "Where's Daddy? When's he coming home?"
At least the US military in Iraq sets up video links for separated families. The CBC can't do that, even though the technology is right there, all the regional centres are shut down tight.
There are several management-union partnerships in Toronto, but those couples get to go home at the end of the day.
And for members of the union we get to go home to our families after our shift on the picket line.
The out-of-town managers don't get to do that. They go back to hotel rooms.
They don't like it. Picket captains are reporting that more of those out-of-town managers who have the courtesy to wait a couple of minutes before going in are saying how much they miss their families and dread to think how long this will go on.
As I was snapping pictures of the waitees at the Wellington St. entrance this afternoon, one manager, a tall woman I didn't recognize, asked me not to take her picture. Then she said, "This isn't personal. I had to do this. I don't like this any more than you do."
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So who is hardest hit by the lockout?
A lot of people. But for this purposes of this blog I am going to single out a handful of managers.
I am told there are a couple of the out-of-town managers locked into the Toronto Broadcast Centre, (and perhaps more) whose partners are locked out members of the Canadian Media Guild back home in "the regions."
So CBC upper management has torn apart families in a double way. Not just the problem where one is a member of management and the other the locked out Guild. The CBC has sent one parent thousands of miles away and left the other partner to deal with all the problems at home. "Where's Daddy? When's he coming home?"
At least the US military in Iraq sets up video links for separated families. The CBC can't do that, even though the technology is right there, all the regional centres are shut down tight.
There are several management-union partnerships in Toronto, but those couples get to go home at the end of the day.
And for members of the union we get to go home to our families after our shift on the picket line.
The out-of-town managers don't get to do that. They go back to hotel rooms.
They don't like it. Picket captains are reporting that more of those out-of-town managers who have the courtesy to wait a couple of minutes before going in are saying how much they miss their families and dread to think how long this will go on.
As I was snapping pictures of the waitees at the Wellington St. entrance this afternoon, one manager, a tall woman I didn't recognize, asked me not to take her picture. Then she said, "This isn't personal. I had to do this. I don't like this any more than you do."
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writing, journalism, CBC, blog, news, family
6:16 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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