Honour Our Deal: Regina Civic workers calling for retirement security By Tria Donaldson and Mark Janson All workers deserve to retire with dignity. Workplace pensions are a key piece of providing a secure retirement. But all too often workplace pensions are under attack. The City of Regina is the latest battleground in this fight. Last Continue readingHonour Our Deal: Regina Civic workers calling for retirement security
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The Bombardier strike in Thunder Bay by 900 Unifor members has been sparked by yet another attempt by a profitable corporation to rollback the pensions of workers, specifically future hires. In the interest of providing readers a thorough understanding of the various types of pensions, RankandFile.ca`s Doug Nesbitt conducted this extended interview with Kevin Skerrett, Continue readingPensions 101: From Workplace Plans to CPP
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
By Roger Annis, Feb 11, 2014 Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has taken another step towards her announced intent to upstage the federal government over the Canada Pension Plan. She announced on January 22 that former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin has accepted her appointment to help craft a supplementary pension plan for the province Continue readingOntario seeking to upstage federal government on pensions as provincial election looms
Dave Bush speaks with Kevin Skerrett, a pension researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Kevin recently helped organize the workshops series Pension Funds, Unions, and Working Class Strategies. The series looked at the changing nature of pensions in Canadian society and how union strategies have fared in approaching issues such as pension coverage Continue readingTalking Pensions – A Rank and File Podcast with Kevin Skerrett
“All I would have to say is we’re coming for Stephen Harper and he better be ready for postal workers because Mulroney sure wasn’t.” That was Arlyn Doran’s concluding comment in a wide-ranging interview with Rankandfile.ca. From the local campaign in Winnipeg to save Canada Post from cuts, layoffs and privatization, to management and media Continue readingWinnipeg postal worker: We’re coming for Stephen Harper
By Amanda Moravec Pension plan solvency deficiencies – the hole that opens up when there aren’t enough assets to cover liabilities if the plan winds up – are vexing public and private-sector pensions. That fraction of workers fortunate enough to have a defined-benefit (DB) pension plan is facing a toxic mix of volatile returns, extremely Continue readingMaking the Best of a Bad Situation at Air Canada
Marikana Massacre On August 16, 34 South African platinum miners were gunned down and killed by a special police unit. The miners were employed by platinum mining giant, Lonmin, in the Marikana region of the South Africa. In response to the massacre, Lonmin chairman, Roger Phillimore said in a statement, “We are treating the developments Continue readingWeekly news update, 13 September, 2012
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
by Andrew Stevens and Doug Nesbitt On May 23, 4800 CP Rail workers went on strike after giving a 72-hour strike notice on May 19. The workers, represented by the Teamsters Rail Conference of Canada, had voted 95 percent in favour of a strike on April 27. The major issue is pensions, but there are Continue readingWorkers at CP get railroaded