Union supports move to refuse accreditation to "replacement workers" in Quebec Assembly (release)

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 gallery clearly views the move by Quebecor Inc, which publishes the Journal de Québec, is 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.