Mother Corp...

(Loose Trans: "Bring back CBC's Inuktitut Programming")

Expanding on something I alluded to in a previous post...
I keep having this nagging, stomach-wrenching feeling that when all this LOCKOUT crap is over...CBC North is going to look very different, for those of us who DO come back.

Here's what's on my mind:
I've been able to find part-time work over the last few weeks. I know other colleagues in Nunavut have done the same, to make ends meet, and to keep from going a CRAZY.

If this drags out much longer and they're given the option to make their current contractual situations permanent...Why wouldn't they..?

The fact is...when we're looking for people to fill permanent jobs that have an Inuktitut requirement, it can take a long time to find the right candidate. And in the last year three people have left the CBC for jobs with Inuit organisations...and we were short one reporter to begin with. Making those jobs temporary would only make it harder to attract good candidates. So I'm sure, for management in the North, the fact that we're locked out over contracting out seems laughable. (Ditto for many of us for whom Northern Allowance and housing issues are probably the bigger issues.) I know of at least one colleague who is applying for permanent jobs.

I personally think the contracting out issue is important.

But on a day-to-day basis it's not something that's going to affect most of my colleagues with the Northern service. Some people might stick it out with the picket duty because they really do enjoy their jobs and they believe more contracting out, though not a threat to them personally, is a threat to the CBC. But many people are just going to look for greener pastures. Especially because this lockout just confirms what people suspect...That the big bosses in the South really DON'T give a flying rat's ass about who we are and what we do up here.

So even when we're back at work...the reality is...there will be some casualties.
And being back at work isn't going to be much fun for management or staff.

This is another one of those effects of the lockout that isn't even on the radar for those who created this situation.

(Robbed this one from a much more clevererer person's blog...)