By Robert DeVet, rankandfile.ca East Coast correspondent Chronicle Herald newsroom workers have been walking the picket line since management left them no choice but to go on strike more than seven months ago. And they have been reporting the news. The Local Xpress, a news website run entirely by striking reporters, photographers and editors, saw Continue readingWorkers-run Local Xpress puts Chronicle Herald to shame
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By Nora Loreto Earlier this week, Goodwill announced that they were closing their Toronto-area stores. Sixteen stores and 10 donation centres stocked full of donated clothing and household items were apparently no longer profitable. The workers have expressed the most shock. Despite business as usual, as deliveries continued and people dropped off their impulse buys, Continue readingUnions Could Save Goodwill Toronto From Incompetent Management
By Mike Palecek Postal worker and National Union Representative of CUPW If postal workers ran the post office. If postal workers ran the post office, we would start by getting rid of thousands of people in management. The cadre of class-warriors Canada Post has employed to fight CUPW would get pink slips. If postal workers Continue readingIf postal workers ran the post office
By Doug Nesbitt, November 30, 2013 Reprinted from The Bullet The closure of the Leamington, Ontario Heinz factory by mid-2014 will result in 740 job losses in the industrial and agricultural region of southwestern Ontario between London and Windsor, Ontario. Over thirty tomato farms are losing contracts with Heinz which will also put 350 migrant worker Continue readingHeinz Leamington: Ripe for a Cooperative
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
An abandoned building materials factory in Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, has been taken over by its workers. With support from their community and around the world, the workers have organized, mobilized and voted in general assemblies to restart production under democratic workers’ control. This is similar to what happened in Argentina following its economic Continue readingGreek workers take control