Strike Blog!

April 18, 2002 1:59 PM

Strike Blog! When Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Jean-Hugues Roy was locked out by management with 1400 of his colleagues, he didn't just head for the picket line; he started his own blog (in French) to present the workers' side of the conflict. Interestingly, this isn't the first time SRC/CBC journalists have taken their argument to the web; Radio Canada International (the international section of the SRC/CBC) workers have been fighting their management for years, and last year set up a web site of their own to get the word out to interested listeners. They've also been locked out as part of the dispute, and have gone with their strengths and started an online strike radio station.
posted by geneablogy (5 comments total)

Very touching. The little guy taking on the big bad corporation. I think people who carry on like this were the unloved children in their families and act out their rage against their parents by these sublimated displaced acts against authority.

Now please don't write back attacking me. If you do, it means is that your parents also didn't love you.
posted by mikegre at 2:38 PM on April 18, 2002

I'm also a RadCan employee (I work for RCI, the int'l service) and i'm also locked out. Check out my blog here:
http://www.thenewforum.ca/

It isn't all about the lock-out but it is all in english.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 4:49 PM on April 18, 2002

Yet another MeFi posting hoovered from well above the fold on Medianews. Look, we can read Medianews ourselves, OK? Post something here any reasonably intelligent blog-reader would not otherwise find.
posted by joeclark at 5:02 AM on April 19, 2002

Yet another MeFi posting hoovered from well above the fold on Medianews. Look, we can read Medianews ourselves, OK? Post something here any reasonably intelligent blog-reader would not otherwise find.

joeclark: Maybe you should list the blogs that reasonably intelligent blog-readers visit for me. I know its a bad morning when I learn I must not be reasonably intelligent. However, I am still holding out hope that I am unreasonably intelligent.

I think that strike blogs are yet another interesting net phenomena. It puts a human face on labor conflicts that you can't normally get from a newspaper account.
posted by srboisvert at 6:22 AM on April 19, 2002

Isn't this sort of how Salon began? I seem to remember a newspaper strike having something to do with it.

joeclark: take a chill pill, you're too upset about everything.
posted by owillis at 7:13 AM on April 19, 2002