{"id":2705,"date":"2017-06-29T21:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:14:20","slug":"cmg-to-fight-increases-to-our-cbc-pension-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-to-fight-increases-to-our-cbc-pension-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"CMG to fight increases to our CBC pension contributions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2017<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>CBC management has announced a new increase to the contributions we as employees make to the CBC\u00a0 pension plan. Employee contributions have now been raised 25% since 2015 in order to get to a 50\/50 contribution split between employer and employees this year.<\/p>\n<p>CMG as well as other unions at CBC oppose this one-sided change which was arbitrary and done without consultation or negotiation. We have already filed a grievance to have the hikes reversed to a more reasonable ratio of 60\/40. The issue was filed by agreement of the Consultative Committee on Staff Benefits (CCSB) union participants, and the parties agreed that it would go directly to arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>While we are a long way from a resolution, we are focused on using all the means available to us to reverse these increases, because CMG and our fellow unions at CBC believe this change is wrong:<\/p>\n<p>-The increases are a salary cut: By decreasing the employer contribution and forcing employees to pay more for their pensions, CBC is reducing our pay. This unilateral decision is a violation of our collective agreement.<\/p>\n<p>-The change is not necessary: We know from the updates provided to unions at the latest CCSB meeting that the CBC Pension Plan is healthy and continues to perform well.<\/p>\n<p>-$9 million taken from employees to give to the employer: Management has said the change was mandated by a federal government directive requiring Crown Corporations to move to a 50\/50 pension contribution split by July 1, 2017. The reality is that the increases over the last three years have added up to a $9 million transfer from employees to the Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>This is why CMG and the other unions will continue to fight these changes to our pay and our pension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the CMG National Grievance Committee, Consultative Committee on Staff Benefits and the CBC\/Radio-Canada\u00a0 Executive Council\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian Media Guild\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 La Guilde canadienne des m\u00e9dias<br \/>\n311 rue Adelaide\u00a0St E,\u00a0Ste. 101, Toronto, ON M5A 1N2<br \/>\n(416) 591-5333 1-800-465-4149<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/lnk.ie\/1VI3N\/e=joe@fiorino.ca\/http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.cmg.ca<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/lnk.ie\/1VI3O\/e=joe@fiorino.ca\/http:\/\/www.laguilde.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.laguilde.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.ie\/1VI3P\/e=joe@fiorino.ca\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMGLaGuilde\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>@CMGLaGuilde<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.ie\/1VI3Q\/e=joe@fiorino.ca\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cmglaguilde\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cmglaguilde<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2017 CBC management has announced a new increase to the contributions we as employees make to the CBC\u00a0 pension plan. Employee contributions have now been raised 25% since 2015 in order to get to a 50\/50 contribution split&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-to-fight-increases-to-our-cbc-pension-contributions\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}