TVO unionized workers prepared to strike Friday

TORONTO – Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members working at Ontario public broadcaster TVO will be in a legal strike position on Friday, Aug. 18, CMG announced Tuesday. This comes after 95.8 per cent of CMG members at TVO rejected the provincial broadcaster’s latest offer two weeks ago. The collective agreement between TVO and its employees who are members of CMG, including journalists, producers and education workers, expired in October 2022. “Workers feel they are being forced to take job action that will interrupt services the public relies on, such as The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO Today’s Ontario-focused journalism, children’s programming, and online courses used by teachers in...