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- Published on Friday, 16 October 2015 03:15
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SAVING CANADA POST FROM COAST TO COST - MOBILIZING MEMBERS AS WE GO
The “Save Canada Post” campaign was launched by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers shortly after Canada Post announced drastic postal cuts and rate hikes, including ending all home delivery, in December 2013.
This announcement sparked massive and ongoing public protests. A profitable public service was trying to kill a basic service like door-to-door delivery in a country with severe winters and an aging population.
Indignant letters and editorials flew, petitions were started, and a Charter challenge was filed by CUPW, along with seniors’ organizations and advocates for persons with disabilities. Read more!
WHILE THE TFW PROGRAM HAS TO GO, THE WORKERS DESERVE THE RIGHT TO STAY
By Dan Darrah
“Those dreams of staying in Canada are now gone,” said Marco Lucinao of migrant work advocacy group Migrante Alberta. The April 1, 2015 deadline for citizenship sent scores of temporary foreign workers back to their home countries.
The Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program was instituted in 1973 as a way to alleviate temporary labour shortages in high-skilled professions such as medicine. This resulted in an inflow of migrant physicians and other specialists. Read more!
HOLIDAY INN WORKERS STAND UP FOR TORONTO SERVICE SECTOR
By John Diamond-Gibson
30 Norfinch Drive may not be the centre of the city, but right now you could call it the centre of the fight to decide wether hospitality jobs in the city of Toronto will be a path to the middle class or a poverty sentence.
To keep warm and occupied the workers mix up the regular picket line chants of ‘fair contract now’ with ‘I love soca’ and blast ‘Follow the Leader’ on the sound system.
Veronica, a room attendant at the Holiday Inn, explained the strike issues to RankandFile.ca. Read more!
WHY THIS ELECTION MATTERS AT YYZ
By Toronto Airport Workers’ Council
We’ll get straight to the point, as airport workers we must vote in the upcoming federal election.
Not only because it is our democratic right and duty as Canadians, but because this election could have a direct impact on our working conditions due to many of us being federally regulated workers. This means its Ottawa, not Queen’s Park, who is in charge of administering many of our labour standards at YYZ.
No matter what company we work for at Pearson, we are all being forced to run this neoliberal race to bottom. Read more!
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