A veteran Global Okanagan News reporter is keeping his job after being handed a layoff notice.
Blaine Gaffney said he was handed the notice, but there was a miscommunication.
鈥淒odged the bullet there or something, but it was some mistake,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 hold anything against them, it was an honest mistake.鈥�
It has not been released who will yet be laid off, according to a source.
Global News recently cut nearly 80 media jobs across Canada.
Camera operators, reporters, anchors, control room staff, make-up artists and other production crew received layoff notices in newsrooms across Canada, with Global鈥檚 most successful station in Vancouver taking the biggest hit with 21 job cuts, according to a statement released Thursday by Unifor.
The station is expected to use Video Journalists (VJs) going forward.
Unifor representatives highlighted concerns about the continued erosion of local news as Corus-owned Global News cuts nearly 80 jobs across Canada, including 69 Unifor members.
鈥淔ewer journalists will be out gathering news from every region from Vancouver to Halifax,鈥� said Unifor national president Jerry Dias. 鈥淚f the Maritime newscasts now come from Toronto鈥攈ow can you still call that local news?鈥�
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