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FIGHTING AUSTERITY IN LONDON, ONTARIO
By Gerard Di Trolio
London, Ontario has become a flashpoint showing the destructive intersection of austerity and neoliberal economic policy that has transformed Southwestern Ontario into Canada’s rustbelt.
With a population of nearly 370,000, London is Southwestern Ontario’s largest city and once boasted a diversified economy that included high quality higher education, health care, insurance, and manufacturing jobs.
London has been bleeding manufacturing jobs since the early 2000s, and the Great Recession and its aftermath have accelerated the process. Read more!
ADVANCES FOR AIR CANADA WORKERS OR AN OPPORTUNITY LOST?
By Andrew Stevens
In the waning months of 2014, Air Canada’s pilots signed an historic 10 year agreement. The settlement included wage increases of more than 20 percent over the life of the contract along with and a profit-sharing formula, among other benefits. Both Air Canada and the Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) saw this contract both as an “investment in the company’s future” and a means of securing “labour peace”. It then came time for the airline’s customer service agents represented by Unifor Local 2002 to begin negotiations in the winter of 2015. Negotiations finally wrapped up earlier this month. Read more!
HALIFAX WATER WORKERS' PICKET LINES NOW FEATURING CHICKENS!
By Shay Enxuga
Halifax Water Workers have been locked out now for six weeks but the lines are staying strong. CUPE Local 227 (outside workers) and CUPE Local 1431 (inside workers), representing collectively over 300 workers, have been locked out now for six weeks as they try to defend their pensions. Management is proposing massive rollbacks that could see workers’ pensions slashed by up to 30 percent.
The workers’ pensions are on the chopping block despite the fact that Halifax Water has raised water rates by almost 50 percent in the last four years and somehow manages to find the fat in the budget to sustain a top-heavy worker-to-manger ratio of approximately three-to-one.
Read more!
LIUNA ENDORSES LIBERALS AT CANADIAN CONFERENCE
By Chris Gosse
Canada’s biggest construction union, the Laborer’s International Union of North America (LiUNA) recently held their Canadian Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. There, the union decided to endorse Liberal candidate Seamus O’Regan in the next federal election. O’Regan presented on his party’s labour policies and their intention to campaign against the Harper government’s anti-union bills, in particular bill’s C-377 and C-525.
After the presentation O’Regan’s evident lack of knowledge about labour matters was quite apparent. It was also captured on tape during an interview with NTV. When confronted by reporters he was unable to answer any questions about the federal government’s long list of anti-union legislation. Read more!
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