Community mobilizes to stop staff cuts at Montreal Gazette
According to employees, who spoke to Global News on condition of anonymity, Postmedia wants to slash the equivalent of 10 full time positions from the paper, about 25 percent of editorial staff, more than what they say the company plans to cut at its other dailies across the country.According to Unifor, which represents journalists across the country, Postmedia announced that 11 percent of staff would be laid off from member papers.
“The Anglophone community is already in jeopardy and we need to have journalists out there,” stated Mitchell Brownstein, mayor of the Montreal suburb of Côte Saint-Luc, home to a large English-speaking population.
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