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 1.5 days
- ane more…
Top Canadian CEOs “earn” annual worker’s salary by lunchtime on Jan.2
CBC
January 2, 2014
Public service unions brace for coming showdown over sick leave
Kathryn May, Ottawa Citizen
January 1, 2014
A new year, an old strike: St. John’s Labatt’s
The Telegram
January 3, 2014
Teach for Canada can only make things worse
Ben Sichel, Voices in Canadian Education
January 2, 2014
Canada Post
Winnipeg postal workers fighting ‘dismantling’ of postal service
CBC
January 3, 2014
On work and struggle Canada Post: A view from a postie
Mike Palecek, Rankandfile.ca
January 3, 2014
Saving Canada Post: The struggle so far
Doug Nesbitt, Rankandfile.ca
January 2, 2014
Postal workers: pensions, privatization and the public good
Pam Johnson, Socialist.ca
January 4, 2014
Fifteen Years of Postal Service Liberalization in Europe
Christoph Hermann, The Bullet
January 1, 2014
More Canada
Ottawa’s new foreign-worker rules drop ban on employers with criminal convictions
Bill Curry, Globe and Mail
January 2, 2014
Free trade’s tarnished silver anniversary
Bruce Campbell, Toronto Star
December 30, 2013
Unions must defend the climate
Gary Engler, Vancouver Observer
December 24, 2013
Tire safety worries Halifax bus drivers
Frances Willick, Chronicle-Herald
January 2, 2014
Forestry fatalities on the rise, but still below death toll of 2005
Gordon Hoekstra, Victoria Times-Colonist
December 30, 2013
CUPE organizing at Carleton University
radio interview with Carleton union organizer (start at 37 minute mark)
Media Mornings, Co-op Radio Vancouver 100.5FM
January 3, 2014
CUPE denies membership to Carleton residence fellows
HG Watson, Rabble.ca
December 30, 2013
CUPE: Make 2014 the Year of the Organizer
Nora Loreto, Rabble.ca
January 4, 2014
United States
Jobless benefits cut off for 1.3 million
Democracy Now!
December 30, 2013
Public sector unions win they preach “Tax The Rich”
Mark Brenner, Labor Notes
January 2, 2014
Will Boeing workers nix givebacks in forced re-vote?
Jim Levitt, Labor Notes
December 31, 2013
Seattle labor rallies behind ‘no’ vote at Boeing
Paul Bigman, Labor Notes
January 3, 2014
The War Against Income Inequality Suffers a Big Loss in Seattle
Alec Macgillis, New Republic
January 4, 2014
International
Angry workers swarm Seoul’s streets, demand president resign
Michelle Chen, In These Times
January 4, 2014
Cambodian garment workers killed in clashes with police
BBC
January 3, 2014