By Kelly Shiers Thirteen-month-long strikes seem to run in my family. It is (thankfully) an exclusive club in Nova Scotia, where strikes tend not to take years to resolve. But I find myself a member — along with 55 colleagues, writing for Local Xpress, urging consumers to boycott advertisers, and walking a picket line along Continue readingOn strike 13 months, a daughter follows in her dad’s footsteps
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Journalists, photographers and editors have been on strike for over 260 days in a defensive strike against union-busting by the Chronicle Herald. The strike began on January 23 of this year in an effort to stop major concessions. A boycott of the Chronicle Herald as well as those companies who continue to financially support the Chronicle Herald has Continue readingWeekend Video: Striking against a scab paper
By Robert Devet Labour issues have become part of the Halifax municipal election in more ways than one. A substantial number of candidates promised not to talk to Chronicle Herald scab reporters and made a public commitment to a living wage for city workers and contractors. A decision that takes guts 19 municipal candidates running Continue readingHalifax municipal candidates support fair wages, boycott scab reporters
By Robert DeVet, rankandfile.ca East Coast correspondent Chronicle Herald newsroom workers have been walking the picket line since management left them no choice but to go on strike more than seven months ago. And they have been reporting the news. The Local Xpress, a news website run entirely by striking reporters, photographers and editors, saw Continue readingWorkers-run Local Xpress puts Chronicle Herald to shame
By Dan Darrah In the wake of a contract dispute unresolved by conciliation and bargaining, 61 workers at the Halifax-based Chronicle-Herald newspaper walked off the job late last Friday, mandated by an overwhelming 98.3 per cent in favour of strike vote. In negotiations prior, management was adamant in its position of a 17 per cent Continue readingHTU Striking for Jobs and Journalism
By Rebecca Rose, Canadian Freelance Union member and organizer The union representing journalists and photographers at the Chronicle Herald (the Halifax Typographical Union) and Herald management have reached an impasse in labour negotiations. Herald management recently filed a notice that gives them the option to lock out its unionized newsroom staff and it has recently Continue reading6 Reasons Freelancers Should Refuse Work From the Chronicle Herald During a Lockout
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
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
By Shay Enxuga Halifax Water Workers are staying strong on the picket lines. CUPE Local 227 (outside workers) and CUPE Local 1431 (inside workers), representing collectively over 300 workers, have been locked out now for six weeks as they try to defend their pensions. Management is proposing massive rollbacks that could see workers’ pensions slashed Continue readingHalifax water workers’ picket lines now featuring chickens!
By Robert Devet On Tuesday an RST truck hit a locked-out Halifax Water worker at the Mill Cove waste water treatment facility in Bedford. RST is an Irving subsidiary. 335 workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, have been walking the picket line to defend their pension plan and wages since May 19. Continue readingHalifax Water picketer struck by truck
R&F.ca has launched its Spring fundraising drive. Our goal is to raise $6,660 by May 1, 2015. Click here to find out how you can donate. Airport cleaners speak out about poor working conditions by Robert Devet For the cleaners working at the Halifax airport, members of Teamsters Canada Local 927 , better wages and Continue readingHalifax airport cleaners speak out
Last spring workers at a Just Us! cafe in Halifax, Nova Scotia waged a struggle for union recognition. Out of that union drive those workers and their allies formed Baristas Rise Up (BRU). BRU has since gone on to help organize unions with Service Employees International Union Local 2 in Halifax’s coffee shop sector. Workers Continue readingThe Baristas Rise Up Zine