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IT'S NOT WORKING FOR US: AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LADOUCEUR, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ACTIVIST
By Robert Devet
In Nova Scotia labour circles David Ladouceur is widely known as an outspoken and effective union and indigenous rights activist.
Ladouceur, an Ojibwe, moved from Ontario to Nova Scotia in 1990. After doing odd jobs for several years, he ended up doing ship maintenance work with some small companies here in Halifax. Ladouceur bounced around from company to company, until in 2001 he landed a job at the Halifax Shipyard, at that time under CAW local 1.
Within the union environment Ladouceur gained the confidence to speak out about injustices in the workplace, in his local, and wherever else he encounters it. He is currently the vice president of Unifor/Marine Worker Federation Local 1. Read more!
WSIB'S REFORMS: SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND BROKEN WORKERS
By Orlando Buonastella and Kathrin Furniss, Injured Workers Consultants
Injured workers and supporters will rally at Queen’s Park on June 1, Injured Workers’ Day, to challenge the most recent scandal involving the workers’ compensation board.
Recently, the mainstream media discovered something injured workers had been warning about all along. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is systematically ignoring the opinion of injured workers’ treating doctors and health care providers. This has ignited the phone lines of radio shows and has resulted in several follow-up stories about the WSIB’s callous treatment of injured workers. Read more!
PRIVATIZING SASKTEL: BRAD WALL'S LONG GAME?
By Evan Radford
To privatize or not to privatize — is that the question?
It isn’t, at least according to Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who says his government has no plans to privatize SaskTel. But if we follow our provincial government’s history over the last 10 years, Wall and co. have been much less nuanced on the privatization question than was the bard on the question of revenge.
The past is a good place to look for evidence that, in fact, the Saskatchewan Party has a certain fondness for privatizing Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations — or at least its publicly-held services and assets. Read more!
REMEMBERING THE GAINERS STRIKE
By James Wilt
30 years ago today this month 1,080 meatpacking workers at Edmonton’s Gainers meatpacking plant went on strike.
Peter Pocklington, the infamous owner of the plant who pleaded guilty to perjury in 2010, had attempted to use the economic downturn and alleged price manipulation by the hog marketing board as an excuse to slash wages and eliminate the company’s pension plan.
The six-and-a-half-month strike was triggered by a 96 per cent strike vote and resulted in the arrests of 400 UFCW Local 280-P members and supporters, a nationwide boycott and an assortment of militant actions. The Gainers strike came to represent much more than a fight against rollbacks. Read more!
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