Union, Corus, struggle to reach deal for ops employees

TORONTO – When Corus purchased Shaw Media last year, along with the company came 15 union members who belonged to the Canadian Media Guild.Shortly after joining Corus, the group of former Shaw operations employees organized with their new colleagues and in March, the group voted to join CMG together. According to the union, that’s when things started to go wrong between management and the now 45 unionized employees. Unions are not generally a large presence at Corus, which has close to 5,000 employees, however over 200 Global TV staffers belong to Unifor.The vote by the group to join CMG “I...