A Clue

According to Tod at CBCUnplugged

CMG negotiator Arnold Amber has told picketers gathered in Simcoe Park that CBC negotiators were "pissed off" that the Guild presented a settlement offer. Arnold also says CBC management requested that the Guild not post
details of the settlement publicly on its web site. Discussions continue today.

The CMG extended an olive branch and CBC negotiators were 'pissed off' and asked them to keep it a secret. I think it's time for CBC negotiators to face a few realities.

1) This battle is being fought very publicly, virtually every detail is out there somewhere, in case the negotiators haven't had time to check the internet is overflowing with web sites, blogs, and more dedicated to this conflict. Every detail and possibility is examined, debated, contemplated, and reviewed for the world to see.

2) The Guild and the members feeding content to these sites need and demand information so it's fairly (but not completely) safe to say that there will be no media blackout or anything of the sort.

3) Once an agreement is finally reached, in whatever time exists between the release of that agreement and the vote, the agreement will be placed online, read, reviewed, dissected, analyzed, scrutinized, compared to other labour agreements (CBC and otherwise) by the members of CMG and other unions, all quite publicly, and then there will be a vote. None of it will be secret, nothing is going to be 'snuck in' the fine print will be scrutinized closely.

This is not other labour disputes, it is this one and in this one the rules have changed.