Brief union of 30 January 7 February

– The 2 February, the Canadian Teachers' Federation released a letter to International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland. This letter outlines the Federation's concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement for Quality Education. “The Agreement contains a chapter on cross-border trade in services which, if it were applied without restriction to education and other public services, would have the effect of definitively endorsing certain measures likely to intensify the privatization and commercialization of education without any possibility of turning back.”

– In Karachi Pakistan, two demonstrators taking part in a demonstration denouncing the privatization of Pakistan International Airlines, died and eight others were injured in clashes with police and paramilitaries on Tuesday 2 February. Law enforcement used gas, water cannons and charges to prevent the protest from entering the airport. in solidarity, company employees stop working and the Pakistan Air Line Pilots Association has joined the strike movement.

– According to the International Airline Pilots Association, 96% of the 524 Air Transat pilots voted and 97% of participants are in favor of holding a strike. It's been a year since negotiations started.. The management party wants to deteriorate working conditions and the concerns of the pilots are not taken seriously according to the Association. The strike could start on 28 February.

– Protests against CPE cuts continue across Quebec with demonstrations planned for Sunday 7 February to denounce the cuts of 120 millions. The President of the Association warns that these are between 2000 and 2500 jobs that are threatened by the cuts.

– Workers at the Lafarge Cement Plant in Saint-Constant have been on strike since Saturday 6 February. The 68 members of the Steelworkers union want above all to defend their pension plan, the most contentious point in contract negotiations, the last one ending on 30 September 2015.