NATIONAL – In reaction to the tragedy in Argentina on March 9, when a helicopter crash killed 10 cast and crew members of the French reality-TV series Dropped, the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) has announced that it will organize with reality-TV employees across Canada to improve the latter group’s working conditions and occupational health and safety standards. “The Canadian Media Guild is sickened by the news,” the union stated in a press release on March 10, referring to the tragedy. CMG noted that 54 per cent of reality-TV employees in the country claimed to work in dangerous conditions, according to a poll that the union conducted in 2013. The Guild intends to publish a guidebook by the end of March, about how to keep safe on the job in reality TV; it also plans to negotiate with production companies about oh&s standards. More than 100 people had already joined CMG’s campaign, the release added.