Nova Scotia’s Bill 1 | US Steel | Montreal firefighters | Saskatoon transit lockout | EI Reform | Migrant farm workers | Lac-Mégantic & rail safety | Edmonton senior care workers | Mount Pearl lockout | Guelph glass strike | UWindsor tentative agreement | Hong Kong strikes for democracy Nova Scotia’s Bill 1 Nova Scotia Continue readingRankandFile.ca Labour News Update: October 6, 2014
international solidarity
By Matthew Davidson Over the past six years, Israel has waged three different wars against the Gazans, killing thousands in the process. The current war has killed nearly 2,000 civilians and made a quarter of Gaza’s 1.8 million people homeless. Drawing inspiration from the labour-backed boycott of Apartheid South Africa, Palestinian civil society groups have Continue readingLabor for Palestine: Interview with Michael Letwin
Confronting the garment industry “from both sides” By Samantha Ponting It has been just over a year since more than 1,100 workers died in Savar, Bangladesh, in the worst garment factory accident in history. While the collapse brought international attention to the poorly regulated working conditions of the Bangladesh garment industry, the ongoing and violent Continue readingInternational solidarity and the repression of Bangladeshi labour organizers
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
Report from David Bush, CLC convention delegate and RankandFile.ca editor Day 3 of the CLC convention started off with the all-candidates debate at 8am. This debate only happened because a motion from the floor to amend the agenda to include a debate passed overwhelmingly on the first day. Husseini withdraws from presidential race The biggest Continue readingCLC Day 3 Recap: Races and Campaigns
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
CLC Presidential Race | Temporary foreign workers | BC sawmill explosions | BC teachers | Crown Holdings Toronto strike | Chinese shoe factory strike | Toledo autoworkers strike | Federal job cuts | Tuition fees & work hours | Nova Scotia & right-to-strike CLC Presidential Race CLC Presidential Candidate Primer Candidate websites Hassan Husseini: “Take Continue readingRankandfile.ca Weekly Labour Update – April 21 2014
by Gerard Di Trolio Twenty years after the the first democratic elections in South Africa, the country stands at a crossroads. Racial based apartheid has been replaced by economic apartheid. The Tripartite Alliance of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP), and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), have not only Continue readingUnions and Politics in South Africa
Labor Notes, a network of rank-and-file members, local union leaders, and labor activists in the United States, is hosting a three day conference from April 4 – 6 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will have over a hundred panels on various issues facing the labour movement, as well as skill building and educationals for union activists. There Continue readingLabor Notes Conference, April 4 to 6 – Canuck Callout
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
From a string of regressive labour law reforms at the provincial and federal levels, to factory closures and the formation of Unifor, 2013 has been eventful for workers and organized labour. Check out some of the Rankandfile.ca highlights from the past year. Be sure to follow our upcoming series on labour and the environment, a Continue readingA Rankandfile.ca Reader: Reflections on 2013
In Rankandfile.ca’s final weekly labour news post for 2013: Union organizing at Carleton University Layoffs and resistance at Canada Post Legal challenge waged against Albert’s Progressive Conservative government Service sector organizing in Canada Korean workers fight against the threat of rail privatization IAMAW focuses on organizing non-traditional workplaces Return of “Rae Days” in Ontario New Continue readingLabour News Update – 30 December 2013