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Union questions CBC camera crew cuts: Who’s going to shoot the pictures?

Thursday’s cuts at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) have left the head of its union with a lot of questions on how the CBC plans to do newscasts.

Marc-Philippe Laurin, president of the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), confirmed all of the videographers in Alberta have been fired, among many other staff members in the latest round of job layoffs.

Laurin told 660News Alberta was easily the hardest hit among all the provinces.

“With close to 60 jobs across Alberta, in Edmonton, 26 and another 27 I believe in Calgary,” Laurin said.

He said the CMG has requested a meeting with management to see if they can get answers to their many questions.

“How is the work going to get done? How is news gathering going to get done? who is going to be out there shooting pictures if its the people that are there then obviously that would mean less news coverage and one of our worries is the increased workload on the folks that are there.”

Laurin called Thursday “another dark day at the CBC”, with the latest cuts bringing the total of people let go to just under 1,400 since April, 2014.

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