The Canadian Association of Labour Media is a network of union publications and editors. It was founded in 1976 by the major affiliates of the Canadian Labour Congress. It launched a regular news and graphics service for members in 1986 and incorporated as a federal, non-profit organization the next year. It now counts about 500 member publications and radio or TV programs. CALM is run by an executive elected every three years. Daily operations are carried out by an editor and an administrator.

Who is CALM?

• About one-quarter of the members are central affiliate, provincial or regional union publications; the rest are local union publications or publications of membership-based organizations
• Almost half the member publications come from west of the Ontario/Manitoba border
• Estimated combined circulation of Canadian union publications: one million
• CALM Constitution

The dues dollar

• CALM's annual budget, which comes entirely from membership fees, is about $150,000
• Annual dues for a local union with fewer than 500 members: $100
• Annual dues for a local union with 1000 to 3,000: $185

Services

• Labour News and Graphics, labour stories, opinion pieces, humour, history, useful filler, and political cartoons, 10 times a year
• CALMideas, a how-to-do-newsletter newsletter, two times a year
• CALM Graphics, 10 pages of cartoons and illustrations, four a year
• access to Members Only section of the CALM web site, so that you can download graphics and copy
• annual training conference
• annual CALM awards

Fitting newsletter name

• The Barker (loggers)
• Bread & Roses (women's committee)
• Icebreaker (refrigeration workers)
• Paranoia (government workers)
• Sludgehammer (sewage workers)
• The Mixer (bartenders)
• Sulijuq (Inuit-speaking members in NWT)
• The Pulper (pulp and paper workers)
• Attention All Staff (prison guards)
• White Collar (office workers)