A weekly digest of labour and labour-related news
Halifax coffee shop workers in unique drive to unionize
CBC, July 21 2013
Unionizing baristas symptom of job crisis in NS
Halifax Media Co-op, July 15 2013
EI Whistleblower suspended without pay
CBC, July 20 2013
Coca Cola workers: locked out and fighting back
Socialist.ca, July 17 2013
Unionized workers threaten summer job action at Vancouver airport
Vancouver Sun, July 10 2013
Flight attendants push for union at WestJet
Calgary Herald, July 18 2013
Temporary Foreign Workers shortchanged
Alberta Federation of Labour, July 16 2013
Employer blacklist empty despite labour complaints from foreign workers
Global News, July 16 2013
Edmonton senior care workers mark 100 days on picket line
Edmonton Journal, July 14 2013
US Steel asks government to help end Lake Erie lockout
Hamilton Spectator, July 15 2013
Canada Post worker fired by mail after OT complaints
CBC, July 17 2013
Ottawa picket action wins owed wages for fired worker
Ottawa Citizen, July 16 2013
Young workers take it in the teeth waiting for a dental plan
Toronto Star, July 12 2013
CUPE member hit by car at North Vancouver picket line
CUPE, July 18 2013
Harper adds 8 new faces in major cabinet shakeup
CBC, July 15 2013
Canada sinking fast on global list of job creators
Jim Stanford
Progressive Economics Forum, July 17 2013
Lac-Mégantic
As a former rail engineer, I need to speak out
Montreal Gazette, July 12 2013
Former locomotive engineer quit the MMA Railway in 2007 for fear of safety
CBC Radio, July 16 2013
Railway involved Lac-Mégantic disaster lays off 19
CBC, July 17 2013
United States and International
Heat Wave Prompts Fast Food Strikes in Chicago and NYC
In These Times, July 19 2013
McDonald’s serves up a Minimum Wage “McManifesto”
Common Dreams, July 19 2013
Detroit Bankruptcy Takes Aim at Pensions
Labor Notes, July 19 2013
Studies
OECD Economic Outlook 2013
Where did our rights come from?
CAW, July 10 2013
Campaigns
Ontario: $14 Minimum Wage campaign
Ontario: Defeat the Liberals and PCs! OSSTF District 9 campaign
Solidarity: Toronto’s Locked-out Funeral Home Workers