– Last week, the 14 January, the 6000 Toronto outside workers joined the 20 000 White-collar workers who seek a strike mandate to their union in negotiations of collective agreements. – Also last week, Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (SCFP) have […]
Friday, I finished a four weeks to start working in a call center. Long training, from 4:00 p.m. to 0:00, paid at the minimum wage of course. Formation in which we were taught to say no to say no without client.e.s, without using negative, because tse, […]
– The year began strongly with the invalidation of the law on essential services in Saskatchewan by the Supreme Court of Canada. Indeed, this law attacking the right to strike was considered harmful since it attacked the fundamental right of association of employee-e-s, including strike. And since the strike is a weight […]
Yesterday morning, CBC announced that nearly 2400 blue-collar workers were suspended-e-s without pay for participating in a general meeting last week. Recall that the 8 December, the call of their union, blue-collar workers have met-e-s general assembly to discuss the claims that will be coming in […]
Half a million strikers in Quebec! This is in terms of the largest number of strikes that the province has seen since 1972. It has taken in years of zero deficit, reengineering, PPP and austerity to the bottom of the barrel seems close enough to cause a reaction to his […]
The Common Front and the Federation of Trade Unions of Education (FSE-CSQ) promised one day general strike for Wednesday 9 December, and they kept their word! According to official sources, it is more 434 000 Workers who do not return to work today. While in Quebec several thousand enseignant.es […]
From the post-war to the 70s, significant workers' struggles have helped advance the recognition and establishment of unions, through these legal gains, were able to win important victories for the working class as a whole, and not only to syndiqué.e.s. These mechanisms of recognition and supervision contributed to the integration of the unions in […]
The 16 and 17 on November, several members of the Montreal branch of the Industrial Workers Union and Workers (SITT-IWW) participated in the picket lines of the common front. These two days marked the return of the rotating strike the common front on the island of Montreal. several wobblies, Solidarity's call-Country Committee, in […]
The 19 November we commemorate the execution of Joe Hill, revolutionary activist, poet, songwriter, designer and wobbly first line and the first time. Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, said Joe Hill, born in Sweden on 7 October 1879. Dreaming of a better life, he joined the tens, even hundreds of thousands of immigrant-e-s European-do-s, mainly Original […]
Here twelve months I was active in the Montreal chapter of the Industrial Union of Workers and Workers - Industrial Workers of the World (SITT-IWW). This organization is actively involved in union renewal made necessary by our time. I would like to explain a little what attracted me to this union . History start, a brief history […]