OTTAWA – Apparently going incommunicado can work. Forced into a media blackout for days by a federal mediator, the CBC and its union, the Canadian Media Guild, emerged from their negotiation cocoon just after midnight ET this morning to announce that it’s time to go back to work. The CMG and the CBC finally reached a memorandum of settlement after 16 months of negotiations. “The memorandum represents the framework of an agreement that will be formalized over the coming days and submitted to the CMG membership for ratification,” says the joint press release. "It took hard work and compromise on...
