The diplomatic row between Canada and Saudi Arabia has become headline news around the world. In this episode of Rank and File Radio – Prairies Edition, host Emily Leedham speaks with Anthony Fenton, an expert on Canadian-Saudi relations. Fenton speaks about the dispute, the controversial arms trade, the Canadian brand of “ethical oil”, and Saudi Continue readingSaudi Arabia & Canada: Arms, Oil and the Wheat Board
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Earlier this winter Rankandfile.ca sat down with Herman Rosenfeld, a former CAW staffer and current member of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly to discuss the politics of pipelines and the environment within the labour movement. He authored an article entitled “Stop Line 9 Should Be Labour’s Demand”, which first appeared on the Bullet late last Continue readingLine 9 and the Labour Movement
By Herman Rosenfeld One would have hoped that Canada’s newest and largest private sector union – UNIFOR, made up of the former Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) unions – would have been out front in the growing movement against Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline reversal. This key new organization of Canada’s working-class Continue readingStop Line 9 Should Be Labour’s Demand
Over 50 people are reported dead and scores more injured after the catastrophic rail disaster in the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic.
Wisconsin | Canadian pension plans | Davis Day, Cape Breton | Wages and CEO compensation in the U.S. | Iraqi oil workers | Hyundai receives 22,000 applications for 877 jobs | Report on trade union rights | Wisconsin In a major setback for workers in Wisconsin and beyond, the state’s Republican Governor Scott Walker survived Continue readingWeekly news update, June 13, 2012