Entries by matjean

Montréal: A farm worker in hunger strike

Note: A reason beyond our control forces us to modify the text of M. Santos. Changes are indicated by typographic brackets [ ] My name is Noé Ricardo Arteaga Santos, I am a former worker [d’une entreprise québécoise qui produit des tomates de serres et ancien membre du Syndicat des travailleurs et […]

Farm workers do not deserve our respect

par Pierre-Louis Fortin-Legris Pris sur le site de À Babord ! Il est un lieu commun qui veut que le marché du travail soit un mutant. Transformations par-ci, mutations par-là. Le milieu agricole n’y échappe pas. Nos cornichons viennent d’Inde et nos terres sont labourées par des Guatémaltèques de passage qui, tels des cornichons, n’ont […]

A BBC poll shows widespread disaffection with capitalism

Par Julie Hyland WSWS Un sondage international mené par la British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) World Service reveals widespread disaffection with the capitalist free market, including significant opposition to capitalism itself. Directed by the firm GlobeScan / PIPA, The survey questioned more than 29.000 people 27 country between 19 juin et […]

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Solidarity is strengthening in the conflict Nickel

Caught on: http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3346- The strike of Canadian miners of the United Steelworkers (ETC) against the Brazilian company Vale-Inco gained intensity on August 1 when 450 Voisey’s Bay miners, in the eastern provinces of Labrador and Newfoundland have walked out. These nickel miners, of copper and cobalt thus join their 3.500 collègues […]

Starbucks: intimidation and smear

After loudly proclaimed his respect for the employees association law, Starbucks multinational began covertly its smear campaign and legal guerrilla. She hired one of the most prestigious law firms, Heenan Blaikie, pour l’aider à contester le droit de ses employés à être traités équitablement et […]

Walmart wants to ban the use of circle

Wal-Mart filed, the Superior Court of Quebec, une demande d’injonction contre le site web www.employeswalmartcanada.ca, maintained by UFCW Canada, the union has been fighting for several years to organize the retail giant's workers. The injunction claims that particular website stops using oval patterns, circulaires […]

A first unionized Starbucks in Quebec

Québec, 14 July 2009 - Monday morning, the union of workers of Starbucks, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), filed an application for union certification from the Commision of labor relations, to represent the employees of Starbucks Germain-des-Prés, in the district Ste-Foy, in Quebec. Recent changes to the system […]