R&F.ca has launched its Spring fundraising drive. Our goal is to raise $6,660 by May 1, 2015. Click here to find out how you can donate. We are told that we live in the “Age of Austerity”, and that we must tighten our belts. That there’s not enough money, and we have to spend less. But austerity isn’t Continue readingWeekend Video: Unite Against Austerity!
R&F.ca has launched its Spring fundraising drive. Our goal is to raise $6,660 by May 1, 2015. Click here to find out how you can donate. By Tara Ehrcke It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since the early nineties, with Paul Martin’s cuts to transfer payments, through the Mike Continue readingBook Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey
The lightning bolts are crashing, the flames are rising, and R&F.ca is emerging from its lair to slay the behemoth capitalist creatures that linger in the shadows. We summon you to join us as we thrust our bosses into the realm of the damned. Like serpents they slither across thorns, naïve to their own mortality, Continue readingDamn the Bosses, Donate to R&F’s Spring Funding Drive
A Solidarity Message for CUPE 3902 and 3903 By Jeff Noonan Originally published at Jeff Noonan: Interventions and Evocations The essence of an unjust society is to continually demand and take from those with the least the little that they have to support their lives and life-goals and add it to the money-value hoards of Continue readingThe Public Value of Public Sector Strikes
UNBC strike ends | Confronting bully bosses at Tim Horton’s| Community Mailbox thefts on the rise | Possible strike for London civil workers | Striking academic workers protest | Glace Bay daycare strike ends | Repeal of Alberta’s Bill 45 | Ontario’s Hydro One privatization | Possible transit strike in Hamilton| What can we learn Continue readingR&F Labour News Update: March 23, 2015
On February 25, 2015, Bill S-221 became law after unanimous all-party support in the House of Commons. The bill is designed to allow judges to issue stronger sentences when transit operators are assaulted. The new law covers drivers of public and school buses, trains, subways, streetcars, taxis and ferries. At least two thousand assaults against Continue readingWeekend Video: Ending violence against transit workers
By Toby Moorsom On Aug. 16, 2012, the South African Police Force (SAPF) gunned down a group of striking miners. Following the first hail of bullets, they hunted down the remaining workers in commando fashion, shooting many in the back. In total, 34 were killed and scores of others injured in what’s been dubbed the Marikana Continue readingCanadian Labour Must Change its South African Alliances
Tim Hortons vs. Workers in Winnipeg by Doug Nesbitt Less than a month ago, several workers at four Tim Hortons stores in Winnipeg began talking union. Management quickly learned of the union activities and, following a captive audience meeting, fired one of the women workers in touch with organizers from Workers United. The union responded Continue readingRoll Up The Boss To Win
Nova Scotia government, health care unions strike a deal by Robert Devet Republished from the Halifax Media Co-op After weeks of talks the four health care unions and the government have agreed on a way forward. Unions will keep their members after all, and bargain collectively in four bargaining units province-wide. It was up to Continue readingBill 1: Bargaining Associations by any other name
Northern B.C. faculty paid less than those at comparable institutions by Tyson Kelsall Twitter tags: #unbcstrike, @UNBCFA, @UNBC, #cityofpg, #bcpoli, #canlab The faculty of the University of Northern British Columbia has been on strike since 5 March 2015. Negotiations have been taking place since May 2014. UNBC’s latest offer is a 5.5 per cent salary Continue reading#UNBCstrike: A fight for fair pay
National demonstrations against C-51 | Campus job action across Canada | Door-to-door delivery campaigns | Victory for Tim Horton’s workers | Interview with Filipino union activist | Deal reached with health care unions in Nova Scotia | Laundry privatizations in Saskatchewan | Budget cuts and layoffs in Ontario’s health care system Bill C-51 ‘Day of Continue readingR&F LABOUR NEWS UPDATE: MARCH 16, 2015
By David Bush Last week several hundred students rallied in support of striking academic workers at the University of Toronto and York University. The rally, dubbed ‘End the strikes support CUPE’ was organized by the University of Toronto Students’ Union and was supported by the Canadian Federation of Students. At the rally I interviewed a Continue readingRankandFile.ca Interview: Students for CUPE 3902