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ATS Ratifies First Agreement with Machinists! 2011-06-01
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
First collective agreement for 65 ramp and aircraft grooming workers at Calgary International Airport.
BCNU thanks nurses for convincing the provincial government to sign Bill 18 into law2013-04-15
BC Nurses' Union
Enabling Licensed Practical Nurses to join other nurses in the same bargaining association will improve patient care by maximizing efficiencies and collaboration among nurses and with employers.
Chalk River Machinists Sign New Deal with A.E.C.L.2012-06-08
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
70 Machinists ratify new three-year deal with AECL.
Fairfield Workers Ratify First Agreement!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Hotel workers ratify first collective agreement.
Global Unions Call for Immediate End to Repression in Turkey2013-06-20
International Federation of Journalists
Global Unions, collectively representing over 200 million union members, including in Turkey, stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey. Our organisations wish to reiterate their serious concern a...
Governments Must Act for Sustainable and Equitable Recovery2012-05-01
Global Unions
On this May Day, Global Unions call on governments to assume their responsibilities and join together to end the crisis. They need to create decent, sustainable jobs and stand up for the rights of peo...
IAM Expands at Vancouver International!2012-06-08
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Machinists union attracts new members at Vancouver International Airport.
IAM Welcomes NIU Members to the Family!2012-06-08
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
IAM Welcomes 200 new members in North Bay.
IAMAW Pursues Potential Aveos Investors!2012-04-13
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Union takes on leading role in finding solution to closure of Aveos Fleet Performance Inc in Montreal, Winnipeg, Mississauga and Vancouver affecting 2600 jobs.
Machinists Ink New Deal with Dettson!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
New deal with a new employer - makes all the right moves, creates joint labour relations commitee and reactivates Health and Safety Committee.
Machinists make Significant Gains at Kal Tire!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Workers at Kal Tire in Sparwood BC make significant financial gains in new 3-year deal. These workers repair damaged truck tires for the mining industry. The tires valued at $100,000 each can have th...
Machinists Ratify First Agreement with Empire Living!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
IAMAW answers concerns of retirement home workers in new contract. Workers wanted seniority provisions when they joined the IAMAW in February 2011. This new agreement delivered on that promise!
Machinists Ratify New Deal with Bolger Steel!2012-06-08
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Machinists sign four-year deal with Bolger Steel in Cornwall Ontario.
Machinists Ratify New Deal with Hobart!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Contract language improvements, increased pension contributions by the employer and new weekend shifts highlight this agreement
Machinists ratify with Bombardier CTM!2011-05-16
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Machinists members sign six year deal with aviation tube maker Bombardier CTM
Machinists Take Air Canada to Court!/Union says company breached Air Canada Public Participation Act2011-03-18
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Air Canada's largest union - IAMAW take the company to court to breaching the Air Canada Public Participation Act - tied to compasny decision to sell off aircraft overhaul centres in Montreal, Winnipe...
New Classifications and Language Highlight Burrard Deal!2011-09-30
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Two new classifications and two long overdue language changes to disciplinary clauses are the higjhlights of this agreement.
New Machinists sign first agreement with Vancouver ATS!2012-06-08
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
News members of IAM at ATS in Vancouver sign their first agreement.
Nurses union convention kicks off Tuesday morning (March 5)2013-03-04
BC Nurses' Union
More than 400 nurses from around the province will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver starting tomorrow (March 5) for the annual convention of the BC Nurses' Union.
Swissport Ottawa ratifies New Agreement!2012-04-13
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
IAMAW members in Ottawa ratify new agreement with Swissport by 95% Margin.
Torkin Manes’ Associates Take to the Streets to Help the Homeless2011-06-01
Torkin Manes LLP
From May 29 to June 2, the associates of Torkin Manes LLP are delivering food and clothing to homeless people throughout the city from 6:00 pm to midnight through the Canadian Jewish humanitarian and...
Two Days of Bargaining = New Agreement = Happiness!2012-04-13
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
IAMAW Local Lodge 1295 members ratify new contract by 100% margin.
Waterous Workers See the Light and Join the Machinists!2011-03-22
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Machinists expand their membership at Waterous Power Systems as parts and service personnel join Local Lodge 1722
Sources Select Resources
The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise WagesLindorff, Dave
Article
2017
Counterpunch
The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lo...
Class Struggle at the WaistlineSchwalbe, Michael
Article
2013
Counterpunch
The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
Connexions Library: Labour and Unions FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
How to Keep Union RecordsNash, Michael (ed.)
Article
2010
Society of American Archivists
India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?Article
2017
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalis...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015Labour Day issue
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular educ...
They Are Still Killing Trade Union LeadersGlobal Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Macaray, David
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on ...
What's the Matter With That Union Boss?The Real Yes Men
Engler, Yves
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a ...
Sources Bookshelf
Democracy's OxygenHow Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Book
1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
E-Commerce vs. E-CommonsCommunications in the public interest
Moll, Marita; Shad, Leslie Regan (eds.)
Book
2001
From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
Liberal Dreams and Nature's LimitsGreat Cities of North America Since 1600
Lemon, James T.
Book
1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the ti...
AgendaWe teach in classrooms from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in publicly funded English Catholic schools, with almost 45,000 teachers working across the province. We are passionate about our work and care dee...
AvisoA professional magazine for the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
CAmagazineThe leading accounting publication in Canada and the preferred information source for chartered accountants and financial executives. Provides a forum for discussion and debate on professional, financ...
Canadian DimensionAn independent magazine of the Canadian Left, of interest to radical Left and anti-capitalist activists and interested observers.
LabourA bilingual journal holding no rigid position on the definition of labour. The editorial board hopes to foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an open ex...
New InternationalistNew Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
Nouvelles CSQQuebec education issues from kindergarten to university.
OrganizeNews and views on issues of concern to the half-million women and men in Canada's largest union, CUPE.
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