Fast food strikes | Turkish mining disaster | BC teachers | Alberta teachers | Canada Post layoffs | Artists’ compensation | Ontario election | Skill shortage myth | Saskatchewan Employment Act Fight for $15: Fast food workers strike in 130 American cities Julia Kann, Labor Notes May 15 2014 Fast food workers struck in 130 Continue readingRankandFile.ca Weekly Labour Update – May 19 2014
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Canada Post | Richmond IKEA lockout | Hudak’s 100,000 job cuts | Temporary foreign workers | Sudbury mining deaths | Westray | Fast Food Strikes | Alberta pension For more comprehensive coverage of the CLC convention, stay tuned to RankandFile.ca. In the meantime check out our coverage so far. Polled public opposes Canada Post privatization Continue readingRankandFile.ca Weekly Labour Update – May 12 2014
Workplace safety | Rana Plaza | Temporary Foreign Workers Program | CLC Presidency | Art Gallery of Ontario | UPS wildcat | Bill C-377 & C-525 | Labour-Community Alliances April 28: Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job Workplace safety by the numbers CBC News, April 28 2014 In 2012, the Continue readingRankandFile.ca Weekly Labour Update – April 28 2014
By Roger Annis, Jan 14, 2014 No charges will be laid against the owners of Babine Forest Products for the fire and explosion that destroyed its sawmill located in Burns Lake, BC in January 2012. The explosion killed two workers and injured dozens. The Criminal Justice Branch (CJB) of the British Columbia government announced on Continue readingBabine Forest Products dodges charges for workers’ deaths in BC
In this week’s update: the campaign to save Canada Post Ten months: the strike at Labatt’s in St. John’s Public service showdown with Tories in 2014 Concessions at Boeing CUPE National squashes drive in Ottawa Cambodian garment workers murdered by police New dangers for foreign workers in Canada Top CEOs rake in average salary in Continue readingLabour News Update – 6 January 2014
By Judy Haiven The tragic suicide by a worker with 38 years’ seniority at Halifax Shipyard on Wednesday, sparked a walk out of more than 300 shipyard workers on Thursday. First thing this morning, workers found out that on learning of their comrade’s death, workers on the previous night’s shift had refused to work. At Continue readingSuicide – The Last Straw At Halifax Shipyard
On September 9, Rankandfile.ca visited the picket lines in Kingston, Ontario outside the Providence Care mental health hospital where 70 healthcare workers – or 1/5 of the workforce – are being laid off. We interviewed nurses, paramedics, anti-poverty activists and union officials. This is what we found: Organized by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Continue readingP3s & layoffs: Kingston workers expose Liberal healthcare cuts
Over 50 people are reported dead and scores more injured after the catastrophic rail disaster in the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic.
Caterpillar closing its tunnelling plant by mid-April 2014, throwing 330 people out of work Toronto Star, May 3 2013 Alberta government insists union pay millions for ‘cost they put on taxpayers’ during wildcat strike Calgary Herald, May 2 2013 St. John’s NL airport strike drags on as high tourism season looms Montreal Gazette, May 7 Continue readingLabour News Update, May 8 2013
Changes to Canada’s federal temporary foreign workers program: Is there any difference? Foreign Workers Canada: Tories Change Course On Controversial Program Wildcats in Alberta: Is labour militancy on the rise in Wildrose country? Alberta jail guard wildcat strike leaves main courthouses in gridlock Alberta jail guard union fined, found in contempt of court Workers on Continue readingLabour News Update, 30 April 2013
Twenty-two Porter Airlines fuel technicians have been on strike in Toronto since January 10, while the St. Francis Xavier university teachers have been on strike since January 28. The Porter workers are represented by COPE local 343 and the teachers by the St.FX Association of University Teachers. The striking workers at Porter have been getting Continue readingStrike Solidarity in Toronto and Antigonish