Many Ontario construction workers, including those belonging to unions, are being dehumanized in the workplace through an array of repressive techniques.

– Surveillance via on-site cameras.

– Pressure to do precarious work, alone.

– Pressure to complete tasks in unrealistic time frames.

– Being shifted or laid off with little or no notice.

– The hiring of foremen who are under-skilled and scared of management.

– An increase in questionable hiring and firing practices by the bosses.

– Coercion and intimidation are used to get employees to forego their rights to proper pay and safety practices.

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New Brunswick nursing home workers are waiting to see whether their right to strike will be upheld after an appeal filed by the province’s Attorney General was made to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal on July 24.

The province is appealing a decision by Chief Justice Tracey Deware who ruled in favour of an earlier labour board decision that deemed most of the workers non-essential, giving them the right to strike. The Chief Justice gave the province until January 2020 to amend the law to ensure it complied with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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by Julius Arscott

The triennial National Union of Public and General Employees’ Union (NUPGE) convention, held June 20 – 23, drew 350 delegates to Winnipeg, Manitoba.  Many of them witnessed the unveiling of the Winnipeg General Strike memorial, situated across from City Hall, to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the historic strike when workers took control of their city, and laid the basis for the expansion of the labour movement – which today is threatened by aggressive employer and state actions.  NUPGE is a federal umbrella of provincial unions.  To affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress and its over three million members, unions like OPSEU across the country (except for Quebec and the Territories) must join NUPGE.

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