Bell Media has minimize an extra 43 technician jobs as a part of the restructuring it introduced in February, the corporate confirmed to CBC Information on Thursday.
The announcement comes after the corporate mentioned it will transfer its native broadcaster CP24 from its Queen Avenue headquarters to its Scarborough, Ont., campus this fall, with enterprise information group BNN Bloomberg to observe in 2025.
“No departures will happen till the interval between August 30 and September 27. We will likely be offering coaching, providing voluntary severance packages and eliminating vacant positions wherever attainable to mitigate the affect on our staff members,” a spokesperson for Bell Media informed CBC Information.
“Bell has and can proceed to adjust to all of its obligations underneath the respective collective agreements, and to adjust to all relevant federal legal guidelines.”
In a press release launched Thursday, Unifor mentioned it was “involved and outraged” that Bell Media was making one other restructuring announcement that would affect 49 “unionized positions” after a spherical of layoffs earlier this yr that noticed Bell’s guardian firm, BCE, minimize 4,800 jobs and dump 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.
“This can be a company that has made billions of earnings on the finish of final yr, they usually proceed to hold on with their profit-over-people precept,” Unifor nationwide president Lana Payne mentioned within the assertion.
“That is one more blow to journalism and democracy and a step in the direction of larger swaths of reports deserts throughout Canada.”
Unifor mentioned the cuts have an effect on a number of areas of manufacturing, together with digital information gathering (ENG) editors and supervisors, media service co-ordinators, media service technicians, graphics artists, post-sound and audio-visual technicians and engineering technicians.
