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QUEBEC TEACHERS EXPOSE GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY IN PUBLIC SECTOR BARGAINING
As if to remind teachers of the reason they would be walking the picket-line, many teachers throughout Quebec woke up on the first of several rotating strike days to the news that the government had found $1.3 billion dollars to once again bail-out Bombardier.
For months the Quebec government had been telling its teachers that there was no money to maintain limits on class size, no money to maintain the weighting system that ensures that classes with a higher proportion of students with special needs are either reduced in size or supported with additional staff, no money to maintain budgets for the resource teachers that staff school resource rooms where students can go for one-on-one help, and no money to offer Quebec’s teachers, already the lowest paid in Canada, anything more than a paltry 3% over 5 years. Read more!
THE STRUGGLE TO ENFORCE MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS IN IN B.C.: AN INTERVIEW WITH HEU LAWYER KAITY COOPER
By Daniel Tseghay
On October 8th and 9th, Simon Fraser University hosted a conference on Temporary Migrant Workers entitled “Labour Rights and Organizing Strategies”. RankandFile spoke with one of the presenters, Kaity Cooper, about the legal challenges facing migrant workers and some potential legal reforms. Cooper is a lawyer with the Hospital Employees’ Union and has extensive experience represented migrant workers before the Workers’ Compensation Board and Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, Employment Standards Branch, Human Rights Tribunal and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Read more!
CLEANERS RALLY FOR JUSTICE
By Gerard Di Trolio
Cleaners in several office buildings in downtown Toronto and their allies held a protest last Friday to raise awareness of a number of major issues they have with their employers as part of the ongoing Justice for Janitors campaign organized by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2.
Contractors providing cleaning services used by the buildings’ owner Dream Office REIT have come under fire from the cleaners from issues ranging from wages to job security. Several legal complaints have been filed.
The contractor Amphora Maintenance is accused of letting go 12 cleaners with a combined service of over 60 years, which SEIU is claiming violates Ontario’s labour laws because the workers were trying to form a union. Read more!
WELCOME TO THE RANKANDFILE!
RankandFile.ca is pleased to announce that Denise Leduc has joined the team as our Prairie Region Writer/Organizer. Denise Leduc is a writer, student and librarian. She is a member of CUPE and proud wife of a union tradesman. Her writing has appeared in Life Learning Magazine and Rabble. In the past 5 years, she has had the privilege of living in various places in three Canadian provinces and loves meeting the people and exploring the natural beauty of this country.
For us, good news comes in twos. Daniel Tseghay has agreed to stick around for another six months as a Writer/Organizer with RankandFile.ca. Daniel has written a number of exceptional pieces on the state of foreign and migrant work in British Columbia, as well as some important contributions on labour history in that province. We’re thrilled to publish more of Daniel’s work in the year ahead. Read more!
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