Community mobilizes to stop staff cuts at Montreal Gazette – Montreal | 24CA News

A bunch consisting of politicians, business individuals and neighborhood organizations calling itself the Friends of the Montreal Gazette, has launched a marketing campaign they hope will cease any deliberate workers cuts on the newspaper.

“Yes, a number of us came together to develop strategies for promoting the Gazette and trying to get public support in opposition to the cuts that Postmedia is proposing,” stated Montreal communications strategist Johnathan Goldbloom who co-founded the group.

They launched an on-line petition Thursday, which by Sunday afternoon had over 1,400 signatures.

According to staff, who spoke to Global News on situation of anonymity, Postmedia desires to slash the equal of 10 full time positions from the paper, about 25 % of editorial workers, greater than what they are saying the corporate plans to chop at its different dailies throughout the nation.

According to Unifor, which represents journalists throughout the nation, Postmedia introduced that 11 % of workers can be laid off from member papers.

Friends of the Montreal Gazette says it’s unfair on condition that the publication is the only real English language day by day newspaper in Quebec.

“The Anglophone community is already in jeopardy  and we need to have journalists out there,” said Mitchell Brownstein, mayor of the Montreal suburb of Côte Saint-Luc, house to a big English-speaking inhabitants.

He and different supporters of the paper argue that such a drastic workers discount would hinder the paper from fulfilling a significant operate, and surprise if any deliberate cuts might be made in different areas.

“Because the Gazette provides the perspective of the English-speaking community and to all Quebecers,” reasoned Eva Ludvig, who signed the petition and is president of the English rights foyer group, Quebec Community Groups Network.

“There are many Francophone readers I saw on the petition.”

Any upcoming workers cuts can be the most recent in a collection occurring for years now, and group members say the petition is just step one in a marketing campaign to save lots of the paper from much more job losses.

They wish to foyer the Quebec nationwide meeting to have a decision or assertion made in help of the paper, in addition to draft an open letter to prime minister Justin Trudeau to intervene.

Neither Postmedia nor the Montreal Gazette responded to Global News’ request for an announcement, by deadline.