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McKee, Clive - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304445

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-08-03

Item number (ISN):

304445

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0055

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1981-08-03

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Clive McKee, former CBC administrator. McKee discusses: his early years in England; his stint with the Royal Navy; his work with the BBC as an engineer from 1942-1947; his move to Montreal and first job with the CBC International Service from 1947-1952; family background; origins of the Staff Council; his involvement in the Staff Council and contact with Rene Levesque; first unions in the CBC and their effect on the Council; NABET's first years; strengths and weaknesses of the Staff Council; proposal to transform Council into ARTEC; certification of ARTEC and problems with the Toronto section; other unions and associations at the CBC and management's attitude toward them; impact of unions on the CBC; arrival of TV at the same time; comments on the rumours that C.D. Howe tried to block formation of unions in the CBC; Davidson Dunton's views on unionization; decision not to work with ARTEC after certification; internal operations of ARTEC; his joining management; and ARTEC-NABET relations.~McKee also comments on: NABET's name chnage; NABET's merger with ARTEC; ARTEC's certification and other unions' responses; differences between NABET's and IATSE's negotiating approach; establishment of the Industrial Relations Department; the early years of labour relations in the CBC; the division between Industrial and Talent Relations and the eventual merger; Montreal producers' strike in 1959; job security for producers; role of CNTU in the strike; negotiation process and his role in it; Al Ouimet and Quebec nationalism in the strike; CBC Radio Canada tensions; effects it had throughout the CBC and the unions; role of Ouimet; industrial relations during his time in the department and the lack of strikes; problems incured over question of jurisdiction and the newsroom; the "Lloyd Robertson" affairs; Guild's approach to negotiations; Tim O'Sullivan and his involvement in NABET; IATSE and its approach to negotiations; and ARTEC and its more placid approach to labour-management relations.~McKee discusses: his approach to labour relations; problems faced by French-Canadians in CBC unions; the strengths and weaknesses of the mediation process; negotiation process in the CBC and the role of the Industrial Relations Department; constraints CBC negotiators operate under; responsibility corporations and their employees have to one another; general reasons for leaving the CBC; CBC funding; failure of the CBC to meet its mandate and how it is reflected in the country as a whole; SEVEN DAYS affair and the involvement of the Industrial Relations Department; unions and their effect on wages and benefits; differences between American and Canadian unions; special relationship between many union leaders and public broadcasting; impact of private broadcasting on public broadcasting; changes to broadcasting in the 1980s; their effect on the CBC; how the original concept of the CBC had disappeared; and how these changes have placed the future of the CBC in doubt. <2h 38mn>

Language:

English

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1. Recorded in Vancouver.

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Vault ISN:

339675

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03226

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339676

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03227

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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