New legislation will impose specific unions on health-care workers in Nova...
Monday, September 29, 2014 This Monday, Nova Scotia's Health Minister Leo Glavine will introduce legislation that dictates to health-care workers which union they must belong to. (K'JIPUKTUK) HALIFAX -...
View ArticleNova Scotia unions protest new legislation that dictates union membership
New legislation in Nova Scotia will merge nine district health authorities in the province into two, and reduce the number of collective agreements with health-care units to just four.New legislation...
View ArticleNova Scotia health-care workers call new legislation a direct attack on unions
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Over 600 health-care workers went to Province House in Nova Scotia to show how angry they are at the proposed anti-union legislation, and to call for Premier McNeil's...
View ArticlePrivatizing the Alberta government air fleet in haste was a lousy business...
Alberta's mainstream media seems to have discovered at last that selling off the government's air fleet to expunge the embarrassment of Alison Redford's premiership is not necessarily an astute...
View ArticleLabour organizing 101: Hunting for union memberships
Monday, March 9, 2015As a full-time staff representative for the Canadian Auto Workers union (now Unifor), my work involved negotiating, presenting arbitrations, appearing before various labour...
View ArticleStudy says union membership builds middle class stability
Study says union membership builds middle class stability A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study reveals that union membership can be a key factor to building middle class stability.
View ArticleLabour organizing 101: On the road to Michelin workers
Monday, June 8, 2015Author's note: Michelin is one of the global giants in the manufacturing of tires; they have been staunchly anti-union since they began in France. In the 1970s, they decided to...
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