Thunder Bay Transit workers are frustrated after going more than a year without a contract, and that‘s part of the reason they voted 96.6 per cent on Sunday in favour of a strike, their union president said Monday.Charlie Brown, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 966, said the City of Thunder Bay asked the more [...]

If Ontario goes ahead with a proposed wage freeze for public sector workers, there could be huge consequences.The head of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) warns that strikes are likely if Premier Dalton McGuinty sticks to his plan, which would maintain wages at their current rate for two years.But CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn [...]

In the last week of July 2010, workers of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9537, who have been locked out of their workplace and on the picket-lines for nearly five months, found a big pile of shit sitting right smack-dab by their picket-line outside of a warehouse in Vaughan, just north of Toronto.[1] One could not [...]

After only a few days of bargaining, it seems that the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) is bent on provoking its workers to launch a strike, regardless of the insistence of the union to pursue discussions.Negotiations broke down last Friday and the company refuses to offer its formal proposal to the workers’ Negotiations Committee. Moreover, [...]

Two consecutive days of mediation will resume Sept. 1 between striking members of OPSEU Local 677 and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.“We’re pleased to be heading back to the table but the effort will be worthless unless we see real progress on the 19 outstanding issues that the employer seems very reluctant to negotiate,” said Tyler England, [...]

Greg Clarkson says he believes in the fight, but is just months away from losing his house.Clarkson is one of 84 workers currently on strike at Engineered Coating Products.He has worked for the local fabrics coating company located on Elgin Street for 15 years. He has been on strike for two.He has three kids and [...]

A break in talks to resolve a long-running strike involving community support workers in southern Newfoundland has astounded families of developmentally delayed adults who depend on their care.“Just devastated,” said Amelia Cull, describing her reaction to news that negotiations had hit an impasse to resolve a strike with workers of the Burin-Marystown Community Training and [...]

Employees at Calgary’s Canada Malting plant have gone on strike. Sixty-nine members of United Food and Commercial Workers local 1118, who work in the plant and lab, walked off the job Tuesday morning, union secretary-treasurer Peter Frost said, after 80 per cent last week rejected the company’s latest contract offer. The main issue is [...]

NAPE workers on the Burin peninsula are no closer to a deal after the latest round of talks with government have broken off. The union is now calling on the Premier to get involved. President Carol Furlong says she doesn’t think Danny Williams knows what’s really happening at the bargaining table and the fact that at issue is [...]

Organized labour needs to raise the temperature at the Engineered Coated Products picket line and prevent scabs from crossing the line, says the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour.“After two years it s pretty clear the company isn t going to come back to the bargaining table”, Sid Ryan said Monday. “Why would they [...]