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UBER MUST DIE
By David Bush
The transportation network company Uber has had a rough couple of weeks in Toronto. Two weeks ago over 500 cabbies protested Uber by surrounding City Hall, snarling traffic in the downtown core. Days later an UberX driver crashed into a taxicab injuring two passengers. Just a couple of days after that when Toronto’s subway unexpectedly shutdown and taxicabs were at a premium, Uber’s real time supply and demand pricing system was charging five times the normal rate for a ride. Stranded passengers were at the mercy of Uber’s price gouging. And just the month before an Uber driver in Vaughan was arrested on charges of sexual assaulting a passenger.
All of these events were taking place just as the city of Toronto is pursuing a permanent injunction against Uber’s activities. The city is arguing that Uber is a taxicab company and therefore they must be regulated like one. Read more!
HALIFAX WATER WORKERS LOCKED OUT FOR ONE MONTH
By Robert Devet
It’s been almost a month now since Halifax Water workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), were locked out by managementThat’s a long time to walk the picket lines. But the large and boisterous crowd that rallied at Halifax City Hall this evening seemed as determined as ever.
"Our morale is wonderful on the lines. We are solid and strong and we are going to stick with this,” says Heather Corkum, president of CUPE Local 1431.
“But it’s frustrating to hear in the media that Halifax Water is supposedly wiling to come back to the table,” Corkum says. “Halifax Water hasn’t been willing to move since day one. They still have this take it or leave it attitude.” Read more!
NO REPORT CARDS IS NOT THE PROBLEM IN ONTARIO SCHOOLS
By Tara Ehrcke
The mainstream media wasted no time this week to engage in a round of teacher bashing at the news that some school boards would not be issuing report cards in response to teacher job action. Teachers, who are in a work to rule campaign, have produced reports but are not inputting the data into computer systems. Apparently, and unsurprisingly, school principals and administrators just didn’t want to do this extra work, so they cancelled the reports. While these boards have now relented and agreed to produce the reports, the incident provides an opportunity to look at they dynamics of the teacher job action and reflect on why and how both parents and workers should be standing up for teachers. Read more!
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Queries due July 12.
Briarpatch is seeking submissions for our November/December 2015 WORK and LABOUR issue.
We are looking for feature articles, interviews, investigative reportage, project profiles, comics and graphic texts, book reviews, humour, and photography that shed light on all issues related to labour and the struggles of working-class people.
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