People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation’s main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.

We finally have established that there will be no runaway use of contract employees,

There’s no reason we’re out on the street today.

We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, … The health of public broadcasting rests on people actually being able to build a career.

They’ve known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC,

It’s really, really great to be back. So let’s get up there, show them what it’s all about. Let’s get back, let’s retake the CBC, make it what it can be – a great public...

This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.