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CHCH denies allegations of union-busting; union seeks donations for fired employees

HAMILTON - CHCH-TV Hamilton is denying claims that it cut staff, declared bankruptcy and then re-formed as a new company in order to sidestep contractual obligations to its union.According to a CBC News report, an email from a CHCH accounts manager leaked to media claims that CH management cut dozens of employees in order to form a new company "free of old Union employees and their demands"."We just needed to disband the previous company and form a new one where changes could be made, free from old Union employees and their demands and free from carryover debt of CanWest," wrote Kathleen...