By Brad Walchuk A recent strike at Covered Bridge Potato Chips in Hartland, New Brunswick has garnered considerable attention in the popular labour media, and, to a lesser degree, even in the mainstream media. The strike is noteworthy for a number of reasons and provides a compelling look into contemporary labour relations, especially for the Continue readingStrike Wave: The Need for Mandatory First Contract Arbitration in Canada
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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 Tania Parker After a long six month lockout that dragged well into the holiday season, British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA) workers are joyfully heading back to work today, just in time for Christmas. “We did it! We’re going back,” brightly announced a billboard, seen at the picket line throughout its 188-day stay on the Continue readingBCAA lockout ends: “We got what we were fighting for.”
By Tania Parker Talks between Unifor Local 1688 and Coventry Connections broke down as of 11pm on Monday, Aug. 31, with Coventry refusing to budge on the new per-ride fee structure. While last Wednesday’s meeting with Ottawa mayor Jim Watson was successful in bringing Ottawa’s airport taxi drivers’ union and Coventry Connections, the city’s largest Continue readingToken Table Talk: Negotiations begin and end abruptly with Coventry Connections
By Sebastian Labelle Debate seems only to have escalated since I last wrote down my thoughts about the labour dispute at Egg Films (more recently re-branded as “Egg Studios”). I’ve received cordial personal rebuts to my arguments, but the online Egg Films PR campaign has taken an increasingly unsavoury intensity. Let me be clear here before Continue readingUnwinding Egg Films’ spin of its illegal lockout
By Samantha Ponting Locked out emergency roadside assistance workers for the British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA) are calling on BCAA members to refrain from using Evo, a new car-sharing program operated by the BCAA, until workers reach a fair settlement with the company. 70 dispatch and administrative personnel of the BCAA, members of the Canadian Continue readingSay “No!” to Evo! Locked out dispatch workers ask car sharers for support
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
By Dot Tompkins former union shop steward at Ikea Richmond The other day, a person I call a friend posted a link to a Google Maps street view that brought so many memories flooding back. The location was my former place of employment and the area where we spent 18 months walking back and forth Continue readingA cause worth fighting for: Remembering the IKEA lockout
Supreme Court on right to strike | Quebec municipal pensions | Ontario CCAC strike | Saskatoon transit | Port Metro Vancouver truckers | Paramedics’ mental health | West Van nursing home layoffs | IKEA Richmond | Federal workplace childcare | Tim Hortons A Constitutional Right to Strike Comes to Canada Professor David Doorey, Law of Continue readingR&F’s Labour News Update – February 2, 2015
Dave Bush and Doug Nesbitt Last week news broke that the 17-month lock out of IKEA workers in Richmond, British Columbia had ended. On one hand this was a welcome bit of news. After reaching an impasse several times, mediation helped the union and IKEA to hammer out a deal. On the other hand the Continue readingIKEA workers stood tall while labour movement stood still
BC teachers | Baristas Rise Up | Bombardier strike | Federal minimum wage | Federal PS bargaining | Regina pensions | Cameco lockout | Native court workers | Edmonton senior care layoffs | Temporary foreign workers | Ontario mines safety report | Kellogg’s London Striking BC teachers 99.4 percent for binding arbitration Tamsyn Burgmann, CTV Continue readingRankandFile.ca Weekly Labour News Update: September 15, 2014
by Doug Nesbitt Five important pension fights have erupted across the country in recent months. Employers, public and private, are once again going after pensions in what amounts to a heist. Every generation of worker is facing the attack: new hires, veteran employees, and the retired. In every case, the public and private employers want Continue readingFive Exhibits from the 2014 Pensions Heist