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The Halifax Typographical Union and managers at the Chronicle Herald are heading back to the bargaining table, just in time for the one-year anniversary of the newspaper’s strike.
In light of the upcoming talks, a five-day hearing for an unfair labour complaint put forth by the union has now been adjourned until February 6.
“Off-the-record talks between the two sides have hopefully laid the groundwork for meaningful negotiation,” writes Ingrid Bulmer, the Halifax Typographical Union’s president, in a news release.
The last time the two sides negotiated was back in November, when offers were submitted—and ultimately rejected—through a conciliator.
The HTU launched its unfair labour practice complaint shortly after, arguing the Herald had been tabling bargaining positions designed to be rejected in a move to break the union.
“The company remains hopeful for a sustainable resolution to this disruption. A solution that sees our employees treated fairly and provides the basis for the Chronicle Herald to continue serving Nova Scotia,” chief operating officer Ian Scott writes in a press release about the upcoming talks.
It will be one year exactly since the Herald strike began on Monday, January 23. At the time, there were 62 unionized newsroom employees. Only 55 remain on the picket line and working for the competing Local Xpress website.
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This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2017.
Hmmm… you chose to strike and you do. It doesn’t affect the employer as you thought. The public doesn’t seem to care. A year later and nothing changed. I know, let’s grasp at straws and file an unfair labour complaint. This is childish.
It also shows how useless a strike was in this situation. They have been on strike for a year, that’s a year of lost wages. They sign the contract even say next week. Half of the people on strike will be laid off immediately. Just a terrible misjudge of the situation on every level by the union