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Canada’s largest private-sector union has added its voice to calls for “targeted and urgent” financial aid from the Legault government to save the jobs of workers employed at the newspapers operated by financially troubled Groupe Capitales Médias.

Unifor, which is affiliated with the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec, represents about 100 workers at La Tribune in Sherbrooke and Le Quotidien in Saguenay.

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Unifor’s Quebec director, Renaud Gagné, said things are looking grim for the newspapers and some financial aid must be obtained before the start of legislative committee hearings on the future of the media in Quebec on Aug. 26.

The Fédération nationale des communications of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux, which also represents journalists at the papers involved, says it, too, is worried about what the future holds for those jobs, the newspapers and the diversity of news gathering in Quebec.

Groupe Capitales Médias operates Le Soleil in Quebec City, Le Quotidien in Saguenay, La Tribune in Sherbrooke, La Voix de l’Est in Granby, Le Droit in Gatineau and Le Nouvelliste in Trois-Rivières. All the newspapers are clients of the Presse Canadienne.