the strike-averting agreements struck between the cbc and its English-language unions are being taken to union membership for ratification and explanation.

According to cbc spokesman Tom Curzon, union representatives, negotiators and possibly cbc management will travel across the country to present and explain the deals to union membership.

The network and its three English unions, the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union, the Canadian Media Guild and the Canadian Broadcast Employees Union, a part of cupe, reached agreements at the strike deadline on May 24 with the assistance of Federal Labor Mediation Services head Warren Edmondson and senior officers of the cbc. Details will be released when the agreements in principle and verbal agreements are drawn up in official contracts.