a selection of labour articles, studies and videos from the past week
Negotiations between Teamsters and CN derail
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
October 14 2013
Labatt workers stay on picket lines through Thanksgiving
NTV
October 14 2013
Nearly 300 contractors replaced with temporary foreign workers
Fort McMurray Today
October 8 2013
Steelworkers condemn Crown Holdings’ use of strikbreakers at Toront plant
Steelworkers
October 8 2013
Bitter labour dispute at FortisBC
Global
October 10 2013
Interview: From the UFCW 401 picket lines
Rankandfile.ca
October 8 2013
CUPE 1393 ratifies collective agreement with University of Windsor
CUPE
October 9 2013
Union drive targets University of Victoria profs and librarians
Victoria Times-Colonist
October 7 2013
Tentative agreement for Cornwall Transit workers
Cornwall Standard-Freedholder
October 7 2013
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Alberta’s deteriorating classrooms
Alberta Teachers’ Association
September 25 2013
Alberta misrepresenting work injuries: report
OHS Canada
October 7 2013
Ontario’s minimum wage workers on the rise; study finds
Toronto Star
October 8 2013
MIGRANT WORKERS
Migrant Ontario farm workers seek EI parental benefits
Toronto Star
October 11 2013
Injured migrant farm workers win back OHIP
Toronto Star
October 7 2013
VIDEOS
Mary Walsh storms the Unifor convention
Rankandfile.ca
October 11 2013
Youth and unions
CBC television
October 9 2013
INTERNATIONAL
Bangladeshi workers organize: Why sweatshop owners may start sweating
Toronto Star
October 13 2013
Pennsylvania nurses defend public health, oppose fracking
Labor Notes
October 14 2013