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USMCA: A NEW DEAL BUT STILL A BAD ONE

By Gerard Di Trolio

Everyone has a take on the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Trump likes the way it sounds.

Trudeau thinks it will grow the middle class.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer thinks Canada gave up too much and that he would have somehow managed to get a better deal out of Trump. Scheet is short on the specifics of how he would have done it in the face of aggressive American negotiators. Read more!


CLASS STRUGGLE AT HOME: HAMILTON'S RENT STRIKE

By Chloe Rockarts

October marks the sixth month of the East Hamilton Rent Strike, where tenants from Stoney Creek Towers are fighting ongoing attempts by their landord, CLV and InterRent Group, to defeat the rent strikers. These tenants, who have been withholding their rent since May 1, are doing so in protest of the landlord’s plan to increase rent by 10% over the next two years, through an Above Guideline Increase (AGI). Read more!


"IT'S A BIGGER FIGHT THAN GREYHOUND" | ATU CANADA PRESIDENT JOHN DININO ON THE FUTURE OF GREYHOUND

On this episode of Rank & File Radio - Prairies Edition, John DiNino, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Canada, provides an update on the talks between the union and the federal government over Greyhound shutting down all but one of its routes in Western Canada on October 31, 2018, and ATU’s commitment to fighting for public owned and operated inter-city transit. Read more!


JOBS NUMBERS BURST BIG BUSINESS CLAIMS ABOUT $15

By David Bush

For the last number of weeks, the big business lobby and the government of Ontario have been loudly pointing to the August job numbers as proof that the $15 minimum wage and the other labour law reforms in Bill 148 have hurt workers and the economy. Ontario’s economy added 36,000 jobs in September, putting a pin in the doom and gloom narrative spun by the big business lobby. Read more!

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