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Article | 7/29/2019

What NFLD’s Cod Moratorium Means for Green New Deal Organizing

Drew Brown, EIC of The Independent.ca, explores what lessons Green New Deal organizers can learn from Newfoundland’s 1992 cod moratorium.

7/20/2016

I can’t see this injustice continue: An interview with Lynn Jones

By Robert DeVet Lynn Jones has been fighting injustice in Nova Scotia for a long time. As an African Nova Scotian living in Nova Scotia, a province with its share of racism, and with fearless civil rights activist Burnley ‘Rocky’ Jones’ as an older brother and role model, it is hard to see how it Continue readingI can’t see this injustice continue: An interview with Lynn Jones

1/26/2016

Canadian Blood Services Workers in PEI on Strike for Over Four Months

By Robert Devet 138 days. That’s how long blood collection workers at the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) in Prince Edward Island have been walking the picket line. The eight CBS workers, members of the Nova Scotia Union of Public and Private Employees (NSUPE) are all part-timers. And they’re all women. All they want is a Continue readingCanadian Blood Services Workers in PEI on Strike for Over Four Months

7/30/2015

Hundreds rally at Egg Films

By Robert Devet KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Hundreds of members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), in town for a meeting of IATSE’s International General Executive Board, rallied this morning at the offices of Egg Films on Lower Water Street. In March of this year Egg Films, the largest local producer of television Continue readingHundreds rally at Egg Films

7/27/2015

R&F Labour News Update – July 27 2015

Ottawa cleaners approve strike | Protests in London against Canada Post | B.C.’s Howe Sound mill to close paper operations | Report calls for disclosure of private hospital laundry contracts in Sask. | Nunavut power workers and government have war of words | Fight for $15 hits McDicks | EI system is failing Canadians | Continue readingR&F Labour News Update – July 27 2015

2/4/2015

The depressing world of call centre employment

By Dylan Hackett Over the past seven years, 25-year-old Samantha Devine has worked at four call centres, starting at the first immediately after graduating high school. She is now unemployed, taking anti-anxiety medication and anti-depressants and has been through several rounds of therapy. “They didn’t really care what happened to you,” says Devine. The mother Continue readingThe depressing world of call centre employment

4/7/2014

Rankandfile.ca Weekly Labour Update – April 7 2014

Nova Scotia’s Bill 37 | Unifor Toyota drive | Edmonton layoffs | Hassan Husseini | Inequality | Gender pay gap | OPSEU and the LCBO | Anti-UAW firm | GM’s murderous decision Nova Scotia’s Bill 37: News Round-up Bill 37: Cutting Nova Scotia’s unions off at the knees Larry Haiven, testimony to the Nova Scotia Continue readingRankandfile.ca Weekly Labour Update – April 7 2014

11/25/2013

Labour News Update: 25 November 2013

Workplace safety rules will ‘kill people’, union says By Chris Cobb, Ottawa Citizen, November 20, 2013 Proposed changes to a federal labour law governing worker safety are diluting a good system for no reason and will “kill people,” a national labour union official charged Wednesday. The comments from Agricultural Union president Bob Kingston were part Continue readingLabour News Update: 25 November 2013

8/19/2013

Labour News Update: 19 August 2013

Canada After the longest certification campaign in Saskatchewan’s history, workers at the Weyburn Wal-Mart voted to decertify. The decertification vote took place in 2010, but the ballot box was sealed pending a court challenge and appeal. Wal-Mart was found guilty of numerous unfair labour practices since the union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Continue readingLabour News Update: 19 August 2013

7/28/2013

Labour News Update – July 28 2013

A weekly digest of labour and labour-related news Canada PSAC going to federal court over forced vote at CBSA PSAC communication, July 2013 Ratification of Agreement Ends Airport Strike PSAC new release, 22 July 2013

Video | 3/10/2013

Cape Breton workers speak out against EI changes

As part of a new workers protest movement emerging out of the Atlantic provinces and Quebec, organized labour has been coordinating large town halls on the EI changes brought about by the Harper government. The town halls are providing an open floor for people to share their experiences and concerns, as well as discuss and Continue readingCape Breton workers speak out against EI changes

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