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HALIFAX WATER WORKERS LOCKED OUT
By Shay Enxuga
Yesterday, over 330 Halifax Water Workers walked off the job to defend their pension plan.
On Monday night, May 18, 2015, employees of Halifax Water arrived at the depot around midnight to drop off their work equipment only to find the doors locked. In response, workers hit the picket lines bright and early on Tuesday morning.
This lock out has come about after 14 months of bargaining has broken down between Halifax Water and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Locals 1431 and 227, representing office and technical workers and outside workers respectively.
Under the current proposal put forward by Halifax Water, workers could lose up to 30 percent of their pension plan. According to Dave Dort, President of Local 227, the employer, “came to the table with a mandate of slashing our pension plan.” Read More!
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Briarpatch seeks a skilled and politically committed Editor to jointly oversee the production of a bi-monthly magazine alongside the Publisher. As one of two full-time staff in a horizontal, unionized workplace, the successful candidate will be responsible for core editorial duties (including website and social media management) in addition to assisting the Publisher with promotions, publicity, fundraising, and other organizational tasks. Both staff report directly to a volunteer board of directors. Read More!
SELLING HYDRO ONE: GUTTING OVERSIGHT TO LINE THE POCKETS OF CORPORATIONS
By Paul Kahnert
After announcing the possible sale of Hydro One, Premier Wynne, on March 10, went on the record in the Globe and mail and said, “whatever we do, we are going to control prices. We are going to make sure that the regulatory regimes that will protect people in this province stay in place.” She has repeated that promise in the media several times since.
The clauses in Bill 91 are completely contradictory to Premier Wynne’s promises. The gutting of the regulatory regimes that will protect people in this province by Bill 91 is jaw dropping.
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SHAKING OFF THE PART-TIME BLUES: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF ONTARIO COLLEGE WORKERS
By Tracy McMaster
We’ve all followed the news that part-time, insecure employment is growing. I work at an Ontario college as a full-time library technician. Every day I work side by side with part-time employees whose jobs are the same as mine, but whose working conditions are dramatically different. Part-time workers in Ontario colleges do many different jobs – some are long-time support staff, teachers or student workers – but all have one thing in common – they work without many of the standard protections Ontarians enjoy.
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