CBC UPDATE: Everybody's working for the weekend

TORONTO - The Canadian Media Guild and CBC management are making steady progress at the negotiating table, the union reported this afternoon. “Yesterday, the two sides came to agreement on provisions for assignment of work as they discussed the issues of day-to-day working conditions. The article outlines the Corporation's rights and restrictions. They also discussed the working conditions for producers and associate producers, covered by the article on producers' authority,” says the release. "There has been a lot of talk about how many articles we have left to agree on," says the Guild's CBC branch president Arnold Amber. "In fact,...