One year and counting; the Journal de Montreal lockout

Today marks the first anniversary of the lockout of the Journal de Montreal workers by the paper's owners, Quebecor Media. The staff is marking the occasion with the $20-a-ticket "solidarity benefit concert".  If history is any indicator, this lockout may continue even longer; its predecessor at the Journal de Quebec lasted 16 months.

BCAMP demurs

Silence continues to emanate from the tiny headquarters of the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers in the tower of the historic Sun Building in Vancouver, where as reported in an earlier post, the air has been rank with unpleasantness. Nine months or more have passed since the eruption of a “labour dispute” that has yet to be named or discussed before the membership, or even

BCAMP up in the air

For the last six months, the BC Association of Magazine Publishers has been stumbling along under veils of secrecy thrown over a putative “labour dispute” that has been boiling away since February, an odd state of affairs for a staff consisting of two people working in one room. No mention of the dispute was made at the BCAMP Annual General Meeting in June, and the only committee that made no