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Workers Issues in Canada

Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action

By Carl Bronski and Lee Parsons, 20 May 2013

Elevator technicians across Ontario are entering their fourth week on strike against transnational elevator companies Otis, KONE, Schindler and ThyssenKrupp

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7 May 2013

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US Steel locks out 1,000 workers in Nanticoke, Ontario

By Carl Bronski, 4 May 2013

Nearly 1,000 steelworkers were locked out at US Steel’s Lake Erie plant after they rejected the company’s final contract offer.

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30 April 2013

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26 March 2013

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19 March 2013

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26 February 2013

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Ontario NDP and unions support Liberal austerity policies

By Carl Bronski, 23 February 2013

With the unions’ full support, the NDP will vote for Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne’s maiden Throne Speech, which pledged to extend and deepen the big business austerity measures of her predecessor.

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19 February 2013

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Canadian Auto Workers union reopens CAMI-GM contract

By Carl Bronski, 13 February 2013

The Canadian Auto Workers union has pressured workers at the CAMI-GM assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, to reopen their contract so as to impose further concessions.

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12 February 2013

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29 January 2013

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Ontario unions stage protest as cover for facilitating Liberals’ austerity agenda

By Carl Bronski, 28 January 2013

Over 15,000 workers attended a rally in Toronto Saturday called by the Ontario Federation of Labour to protest the austerity measures and attacks on democratic rights implemented by the provincial Liberal government

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22 January 2013

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15 January 2013

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Canadian unions’ chauvinist campaign against “temporary foreign worker” expansion

By Vic Neufeld, 12 January 2013

A union-instigated law suit is challenging a government decision to allow a mining company to import two hundred Chinese workers.

Ontario government threatens teachers with fines in bid to thwart walkout

By Carl Bronski, 11 January 2013

Ontario’s Liberal government has urged the province’s Labour Relations Board to declare the one-day walkout by 76,000 teachers planned for today illegal.

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27 December 2012

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Ontario teachers’ unions seek concessions deal

By Carl Bronski, 8 November 2012

The union of Ontario public teachers has postponed limited job action in protest of legislation that imposes wage cuts and other concessions.

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6 November 2012

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Newfoundland wildcat strikers return to work

By Carl Bronski, 18 July 2012

More than 1,000 striking building trades workers returned to work Tuesday morning after a court-issued order to arrest anyone found on a picket line.

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17 July 2012

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Canadian government rams through anti-strike law against railway workers

By Carl Bronski, 31 May 2012

The Conservative government has rammed through back-to-work legislation to outlaw an eight day strike by 4,800 locomotive engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway.

Canadian government moves to outlaw railway strike

By Carl Bronski, 29 May 2012

The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced back-to-work legislation Monday afternoon to illegalize a nation-wide strike by Canadian Pacific (CP) railway engineers and conductors.

Canadian Pacific railway workers strike

By Carl Bronski, 24 May 2012

Within hours of the walkout by 4,800 railway workers, Conservative Labour Minister Lisa Raitt gave notice that she intended to table back-to-work legislation.

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22 May 2012

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Air Canada pushes Aveos into bankruptcy, eliminating 2,600 jobs

By Laurent Lafrance, 12 May 2012

Having mounted only a token campaign against the closure of the airplane maintenance company Aveos, the machinists’ union is working alongside the Quebec Liberal government to find a buyer to relaunch the company at its members’ expense.

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8 May 2012

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A lesson for autoworkers: The short lived Windsor, Ontario Dakkota strike

By Carl Bronski, 4 May 2012

Having quickly scuttled a strike at a Chrysler supplier, Canadian Auto Workers officials are pledging to do more to win Chrysler’s “confidence”.

Ontario NDP enables savage austerity budget

By Carl Bronski, 30 April 2012

With the backing of the unions, the Ontario NDP has ensured passage of a Liberal austerity budget that attacks public services, jobs, worker living standards, and pensions.

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24 April 2012

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Bosses, media braying for new assault on Canadian auto workers

By Carl Bronski, 17 April 2012

The auto bosses and corporate media are trumpeting a think tank report that urges auto workers’ wages be cut by a further $10 per hour.

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17 April 2012

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Wildcat strike at Air Canada outrages and unnerves ruling elite

By Carl Bronski, 30 March 2012

Canada’s most influential newspaper has published an editorial fulminating against last week’s wildcat strike at Air Canada and demanding stern action be taken against workers who “hand-clapped” the country’s Labour Minister.

British Columbia criminalizes teachers’ strike to force through wage cut

By Vic Neufeld, 28 March 2012

Recent events in British Columbia have exposed not only the provincial Liberal government’s vicious assault on worker rights, but also the role of the unions and New Democratic Party in demobilizing resistance to the attack on living standards and quality education.

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27 March 2012

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Toronto municipal union accepts Mayor Ford’s layoff and privatization-promoting contract

By Carl Bronski, 10 February 2012

The Canadian Union of Public Employees has accepted a “framework” contract for outside municipal workers that includes virtually every item on the Toronto mayor’s concessionary agenda—beginning with the gutting of job security.

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31 January 2012

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The unions and the lockouts at Cooper Tire and Caterpillar

By Joseph Kishore, 24 January 2012

As the lockouts of Cooper Tire workers in Ohio and Caterpillar workers in Ontario enter their ninth and fourth weeks, the unions are working deliberately to isolate the struggles and ensure defeat.

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24 January 2012

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Some hard truths about the unions’ “Day of Action” for Ontario Electro-Motive workers

By Keith Jones, 21 January 2012

Almost exactly one year ago, union and NDP leaders gave fiery speeches at a “Day of Action” organized to support locked-out US Steel workers in Hamilton, Ontario. They then systematically isolated the steelworkers’ struggle, ultimately imposing a concessions-laden contract on them.

Quebec: Lockout of workers at Rio Tinto Alcan smelter in third week

By Eric Marquis, 17 January 2012

Rio Tinto Alcan, the world’s largest producer of aluminum, has locked out 750 workers at its Alma, Quebec smelter since December 31.

The way forward for locked-out Ontario Electro-Motive workers

By Carl Bronski, 17 January 2012

While workers at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive plant are steadfastly resisting sweeping concession demands, including a 55 percent wage cut, the CAW has signaled to the company it is ready to negotiate a concessions-laden contract.

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17 January 2012

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US, Canadian workers locked out for opposing wage cuts

By Andre Damon, 7 January 2012

The new year begins with major industrial lockouts in Ontario, Quebec and Ohio.

London, Ontario locomotive workers in showdown with Caterpillar

By Andre Damon, 6 January 2012

Caterpillar locked out 425 employees at its Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive assembly plant in London, Ontario January 1, after workers refused to accept the company’s demand that wages and benefits be cut by more than half.