The challenges of tenant unionism | CP Rail lockout looms
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March 18 2022
The challenges of tenant unionism
in British Columbia
Rankandfile.ca speaks with members of Rent Strike Bargain in British Columbia about the housing crisis and new tenant demands around the right to organize and bargain collectively. We've published the full interview for Rankandfile.ca readers.
In brief: The CP Rail dispute
3,000 conductors and locomotive engineers at Canadian Pacific could be locked out on Sunday, March 20. This is the corporation's response to a 96.7% strike mandate delivered by the members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.
CP has once again pushed employees into a corner with another attack on pensions, wages and conditions. The goal? Finance more cost-cutting to boost share values. CP's tradition of bad faith bargaining is deeply entrenched thanks to 70 years of federal strikebreaking laws.
Trade unionists with long memories will recall TCRC went on strike against CP's pension assault back in May 2012. The Harper Conservative government responded with strikebreaking legislation. Rankandfile.ca was on the scene covering this clash.
The corporate agenda of CP is linked to "financialization", meaning the control of industry by Wall Street hedge funds. As we argued back in 2013, the costs of financialization include the 2013 Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster that killed 47 people.
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