Canada

Work Outsourced from Sun, Province Newsrooms

From The Tyee
By Tom Sandborn

Work traditionally done in the newsroom at the Vancouver Sun is now being sent by e-mail across the country to be done by non-union staff of the CanWest empire in Hamilton, Ontario, union sources say, claiming the result will be further erosion of the paper's local character and threatens to the unionized work force here.

Read the rest here: http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/11/05/CanwestSynergies/

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