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TOYOTA ORGANIZING DRIVE RENEWED AS COROLLA PRODUCTION STOPS



By Gerard Di Trolio

The April 15 announcement that production of the top selling Toyota Corolla would no longer be built in Canada has reignited the union drive at Toyota’s assembly plants in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario.

The current drive was launched in late 2013, and began to cool down late last year. However it has been workers at Toyota, and not Unifor’s organizers who are behind this renewed push.

“All of this ramping up of activity is in response to the workers’ desires. They called us,” says Unifor organizer Bob Van Cleef. “Obviously the messages we’ve been providing the workers over the years has resonated, because as soon as the Corolla announcement was made the workers responded by coming to us.” Read More!

THE BULLY IN THE WORK PLACE
By A.C.
Air Canada customer & service agent

“Air Canada’s Customer Sales and Service Agents are the stars of a tightly orchestrated pre flight and pre-boarding process”, reads Air Canada’s En Route magazine. This very strategically placed article was printed in the May issue of En Route in the midst of contract negotiations. Although one would be led to believe that Air Canada has respect and praise for its’ front line employees, this could not be further from the truth. In recent months Air Canada’s over 3400 customer sales and service staff have been threatened with job outsourcing, as has already happened in London Heathrow. The company has even prepared for a strike by training replacement workers from the security company Garda. Read More!

A GLAMOROUS JOB AT AIR CANADA?: THANKLESS TOILING AT CANADA'S FLAGSHIP AIRLINE

By A.C.
Air Canada customer & service agent

Once upon a time working for an airline was a respected, well paying job. There was also a time when an employee working for a prestigious company, like Air Canada, was proud to wear the uniform that showed a very recognizable logo. Times have changed. Now, Canada’s global airline is known for having very little respect for its employees, and even for failing to honour the terms of a collective agreement. An agreement, I should add, that was ratified under the threat of back-to-work legislation by the Conservative government. Read More!

BOOK REVIEW: MILITANT MINORITY

By Gerard Di Trolio

Victoria city councillor Benjamin Isitt has written a detailed account of British Columbia’s radical left and labour movement in Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left 1948-1972. Isitt challenges many assumptions about the role of the left and labour movement in the so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism.”

By using B.C. has an example, Isitt shows how the postwar class compromise of the 1940s, was in fact what he calls a “tug-of-war” with B.C. workers not afraid to engage in wildcat strikes and break away from international American dominated unions to form all Canadian ones. Read More!

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