The Montreal Newspaper Guild takes issue with and dissociates
itself from a self-serving editorial in The Gazette Dec. 10 that called
for the granting of accreditation to two Journal de Québec reporters
to the National Assembly press gallery in Quebec City.
The Guild, which
represents editorial, advertising, circulation, business office, information
technology, and classified employees at The Gazette, strongly supports
the Quebec Press gallery executive, which rejected the accreditation
request.
The gallery clearly views the move
by Quebecor Inc., which publishes the Journal de Québec, as designed to enable these reporters to
act as replacement workers for the Journal de Montréal reporters
who have been locked out by the same employer, along with 253 unionized
workers, for almost a year.
The gallery executive foresaw the
obvious: Quebecor is seeking to subvert Quebec's anti-scab law, which
makes it illegal for an employer to use replacement workers during
a strike or lockout. By allowing the Journal de Québec to get
the accreditations it seeks, the gallery would be aiding and abetting
a clear attempt to circumvent a law that has been on the books for
some 30 years.
The Gazette
editorial is self-serving because, in making common cause with Quebecor
management, it ignores the right of unionized workers not to be replaced
during a strike or lock out.
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