Andrea MacBride

[Unifor Local 2000 @Unifor2000]

Unifor 2000’s 140th birthday cake at congress banquet Sat. From left, Sec-Treas Bill Catterall, Pat Bulmer (ret'd) and Prez Brian Gibson served. VP Stephanie Ip handled cutting duties and Cathy Cartwright took photo. We've merged & changed names, but yes, it's been that long.

[Media Action Plan @MAP_Canada]

Please share from here and from our insta @ mediaactionplancanada

[Unifor @UniforTheUnion]

After 44 days of picketing and unwavering determination, 35 members of Unifor Local 114 at the Salvation Army in Langley, BC, have successfully ratified a new collective agreement. https://t.co/UyOv7pbyIN

[Media Action Plan @MAP_Canada]

It gets hard reading about newspaper closures, but when the writing is also a brilliant and heartbreaking personal essay by a longtime local journalist, it's a brilliant yet easy read about hard times for local news.

[Andrea MacBride @macbride_andrea]

Out on the picket line again this morning with ⁦@Unifor114⁩ members from Salvation Army! #onedaylongeronedaystronger

[Julie MacLellan @juliemaclellan]

Thinking of my work fam today as my friends and colleagues work on the final print editions of @TheRecord @BurnabyNOW_News @TriCityNews

Ink-smudged fingers forever! ❤️🗞️

#localnewsmatters #newwest

[Richard Dal Monte @RichDalMonte]

Thinking of my friends and former colleagues at @TriCityNews @BurnabyNOW_News @TheRecord who are on deadline today putting together their final print editions.

Sad day for #newspapers #journalism in #Coquitlam, #PoCo, #PortMoody, #NewWestminster, #Burnaby and #bcpoli in general.

[Richard Dal Monte @RichDalMonte]

I will note that no such news has been shared about the same co’s print papers in Delta, Richmond and North Van.

The difference?

Those aren’t union papers, TC, Bby. and NW are.
#newspapers #journalism

[Richard Dal Monte @RichDalMonte]

Terrible, sad #newspaper news:

I’m told my old paper, The Tri-City News, will deliver its final print edition next week. Same for Bby. Now and NW Record.

Staff were told yesterday — VIA EMAIL.

The “papers” will apparently deliver news online only.

Staffing? Unknown.

Fuuuuu-

[Andrea MacBride @macbride_andrea]

@teachergoals Lol

[Labour History Girl @labour_girl]

On this day in 1984, newspaper workers at Pacific Press, which publishes the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province, ended a two-month strike. Under the new contract the workers received wage increases and clarifications on job security and seniority. #canlab #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Tim Cheung @kaikit_tim]

Here is my Bladder Cancer Story.

Patient Highlight: Tim’s Experience with Urothelial Carcinoma https://t.co/Y8kE1HtGXE
@BladderCancerCA @WorldBladderCan

[Rod Mickleburgh @rodmickleburgh]

In spite of everything imposed on it by the hedge fund vampires at @postmedianet, the @VancouverSun sent nearly $2 million to help impoverished school kids over the past year from its Adopt-A-School program...well done! It's a great program...consider donating...i do...

[Kim Bolan @kbolan]

Cleaning out the Vancouver Sun desk today - found Bal Buttar murder confession tapes, Jamie Bacon photos sent to me by his friend and stacks and stacks of files. Sigh….

[Rod Mickleburgh @rodmickleburgh]

As @postmedianet slowly but surely, and deliberately, dismantles the once great chain of daily newspapers across Canada, throwing readers onto the trash heap, i wonder how those executive salaries are holding up...

[Gord McIntyre 🇨🇦 @gordmcintyre]

Cleaned out my desk today as ⁦@theprovince⁩ and ⁦@VancouverSun⁩ newsroom gets ready to be no more

[John Mackie @jmackie_mackie]

This Week in History, 1956: Sun columnists disagree about the "current teen craze," Elvis Presley https://t.co/499MgzgBqJ via @VancouverSun

[Kim Bolan @kbolan]

Excited to be on this panel with all these great journalists! Come to the @caj conference in Vancouver April 14-16th!

[LabourStart Canada @LabourStartCanE]

Purdy's (Unifor) in BC is another one.

https://t.co/es1PPfxA4h

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Covid on the rise. Look at the Vancouver chart (second from the top on the left). Covid traces in sewage has more than doubled since February.