Entries by sittmontreal

Brief union of 8 the 14 February

– The 8 February, les membres du syndicat Unifor chez Métaux GBL à Dolbeau-Mastissini ont eu la mauvaise surprise de se retrouver en lock-out par leur employeur. Les représentant-e-s syndicaux déplorent que le patron s’attaque à la libre négociation; pour le patron, son offre est à prendre ou à laisser malgré les propositions de solutions […]

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Unionism fast food: unionization McDonald and McDonaldization unions.

Organizing the IWW, Erik Forman provides a great history of the fast food industry, tactics corporatist unions and indicates directions to follow to ensure that working and fast food workers to overcome, through an independent organization, the problematic situations it lists.

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, s’il était […]

Brief union the week 23 the 29 January

– Monday 25 January, Halifax, the employee-s Chronicle Herald strike demonstrated outside their local. This day, the typographers' union had to negotiate with the leadership of the oldest still independent Canadian newspaper. The negotiations are still at an impasse; 61 employées sont en lock-out et font face à des […]