by Stefan Peters-Hnatiuk, At the end of May, the Ontario Liberal government announced “sweeping” labour law reforms, inclining them to bask in the glory of their freshly appropriated “progressive values”, eliciting the ire and indignation of Conservatives, while causing New…
By Joel Harden, CUPE 1281 (Published with permission of rankandfile.ca) At its best, the recent 28th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress demonstrated how far unions have come on Indigenous rights, Palestinian rights (more on that later), racism, queer…
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by Barry Weisleder Though the October 19 Canadian federal election is still three months away, the changing pattern of public opinion is forcing the major parties to shift gears. According to a major late-June poll, the labour-based NDP has the…
The warm rays of the sun appeared just in time for university workers and their supporters to take demands for decent income and job security to the streets of Toronto on Saturday, March 21. Over two thousand teaching assistants/graduate assistants,…
Read More Report on Toronto demonstration for striking university workers on March 21
by Julius Arscott Employees of the Ontario Public Service are getting ready to hit the bricks. Negotiations for a collective agreement for the 35,000 workers, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union, are stalled. The old agreement expired on…
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