Monday, June 28, 2010 at 10:28AM by UWFA diversions, natalie merchant, solidarity, union, video in Diversions Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 2:59PM by UWFA Vale, canadian labour congress, mining, solidarity, strike in Affiliates OTTAWA – The Executive Council of the Canadian Labour Congress is asking workers who belong to its affiliated unions not to visit the Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa-Gatineau until striking workers have secured a fair collective agreement.
The CLC’s Executive Council, meeting in Ottawa, passed a resolution saying in part that the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC) “has blatantly abandoned that responsibility by failing to negotiate a fair collective agreement with its workforce.”
For the past five weeks, 420 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada have been on strike at the museums to secure a collective agreement that would change the museum’s employment practices: 38% of the workforce is employed on a temporary basis, and museum workers are being paid 30% less on average than other federal government museum workers doing the same or similar jobs.
The CLC is also calling upon the government of Canada to force the museum “to negotiate a collective agreement that ends the precarious work practices used by the Corporation.”
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:03AM by UWFA canadian labour congress, solidarity, strike in Labour News Enjoy this YouTube video of the Dropkick Murphys performing the Worker’s Song, a song about working, fighting and dying for things you don’t even own.
Friday, May 8, 2009 at 12:57PM by UWFA diversions, solidarity, workers in Diversions Members of Canada’s largest energy workers’ union will picket select Petro-Canada gas stations Friday and Saturday nationwide in support of locked-out workers at the company’s Montreal refinery.The Winnipeg picket will be: Noon, Friday Feb. 29th, Petro Canada at Broadway and Main Street. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada has declared Friday and Saturday National Days of Action in support of 270 Petro-Canada workers who were locked out by their employer in November.Though the company is making record profits, it has steadfastly refused to negotiate with workers in Montreal, who are asking for the same settlement negotiated with other plants across the country.
“This is an attempt to break our system of pattern bargaining in the energy sector,“ says CEP President Dave Coles. “In doing so the company is placing the safety of the surrounding community at risk.“ Petro-Can’s lock-out means the refinery is being run by inadequately-trained managers who are working extremely long hours without breaks. An inquiry into the explosion at the BP refinery in Texas in 2005, which killed 15 people, concluded that fatigue and poor training were behind that tragedy.“We are calling on Petro-Canada to let these men and women return to their jobs before disaster strikes,“ says Coles.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:11AM by UWFA information picket, solidarity in Affiliates