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SAY "NO!" TO EVO! LOCKED OUT DISPATCH WORKERS ASK CAR SHARERS FOR SUPPORT
By Samantha Ponting
Locked out emergency roadside assistance workers for the British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA) are calling on BCAA members to refrain from using Evo, a new car-sharing program operated by the BCAA, until workers reach a fair settlement with the company.
70 dispatch and administrative personnel of the BCAA, members of the Canadian Office of Professional Employees Union (COPE) Local 378, have been locked out since June 5, one week after the union issued a strike notice to the employer.
COPE members are upset that they are working 40 hours per week while the rest of the company is working 35 hours for the same pay.
“It’s about parity in the workplace and being fair to everybody. It’s wrong,” says Darshan Andrews, a locked out dispatcher. “We’re working 20 hours a month more.” Read more!
CAN THIS ELECTION STOP NAFTA ON STEROIDS (A.K.A. THE TPP?)
By Gerard Di Trolio
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has quietly emerged as an issue during the federal election. It should receive the scrutiny it deserves.
First we learned that Canada would continue to be part of the negotiations during the election with Canada’s Privy Council declaring that this was possible so long as no “drastic” actions like ratification were taken.
Then speaking in Montreal on Aug. 5, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said he was “enthusiastically in favour” of the TPP, which encompasses a number of countries bordering the Pacific Ocean accounting for 40 percent of global GDP. Read more!
A $15 MINIMUM WAGE IS AN ELECTION ISSUE. HERE'S WHY
By Pam Frache
There is a growing consensus across Canada — and indeed across North America — that all workers deserve at least $15 an hour.
So popular is the notion of a $15 minimum wage that the matter is now a key issue in the federal election.
Tellingly, opponents of a federal $15 minimum wage are not discussing whether low-income workers deserve a raise. Nor are they debating the merits of $15 an hour. Instead, they are trying to focus the debate on who’s going to get it.
For proponents of a $15 minimum wage, this in itself is a victory. Read more!
TURNING AN ISSUE INTO A CAMPAIGN
By Ellen David Friedman
Sandi walks up to you, the steward, just as the hallways start filling with noisy high schoolers heading for the bus. She is ready to blow her top, and over the din she tells you her supervisor is demanding that she continue driving special education students in her own car—long a part of her job as a teaching assistant—despite a recent warning from her insurance agent that she’s not covered for it.
“He told me if I refuse to drive, I’m fired,” she says. “I’ve been in this job seven years, never any problem. Can he do that?”
You’ve been a steward long enough to know the routine. You ask Sandi: “Why don’t you write up the facts of what happened?" Read more!
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