He's baaack!: Stockwell joins the telecoms boom...
Corporate Accountability
We Day: The corporate selling of progressive ethics and hope to youth
A couple of months ago, a friend sent me a powerful article by Delphine Rabet called Corporate Power in Global Governance. The paper argues that profit alone does not encompass the primary concern for corporate entities. Even more important is the consolidation of power. Rabet argues that when the quest for power is recognized as a central motivation, then the complex activities of multinational corporations can begin to make sense.
April 16, 2012 |
CAW Council delegates are calling for major government policy changes in the wake of the closure of the Electro-Motive Diesel plant in London, Ontario.
April 11, 2012 |
Wal-Mart continues to lower standards for workers around the globe and weaken labour relations in each country where it expands.
Eroding Democracy: Free trade agreements, corporate rights and resource extraction in the Americas
Feb 23 2012 - 7:00pm
Location
Ryerson University
78 Victoria Street POD 250
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 4.5828" N, 79° 22' 38.9496" W
See map: Google Maps
PUBLIC FORUM WITH GUEST SPEAKERS:
MANUEL PEREZ ROCHA, IPS Washington DC - Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. where he directs an advocacy and research project on "the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the NAFTA Plus Agenda." Manuel works in coordination with the Alliance for Responsible Trade in the United States and is a member of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC).
Electro-Motive-CAW talks: Interview with Tim Carrie
It's no secret that people in southwestern Ontario -- Londoners in particular -- are seriously pissed with Caterpillar. In fact, in an unprecedented show of support for labour, both London Mayor Joe Fontana and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty are on record as saying Caterpillar has been unfair to the employees of Electro-Motive.
Thursday afternoon I caught up with the president of CAW Local 27, Tim Carrie, in the lobby of the London Hilton during a break from closure negotiations with Caterpillar.
Meg Borthwick: So Tim, negotiations seem to be progressing ...
February 6, 2012 |
Caterpillar just reported that annual profits rose 83 per cent to a record $4.9 billion. Electro-Motive received $5 million in federal tax breaks announced on the factory floor by Mr. Harper in 2008.
Community activist panel on Bill C-323
Feb 9 2012 - 7:00pm
Feb 9 2012 - 8:54pm
Location
Tequilla Bookworm 2nd Floor
512 Queen St West (Between Bathurst and Spadina)
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
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While many Canadian corporations and their subsidiaries have acted unethically and unlawfully in developing countries, they have been able to commit crimes abroad with impunity. Some corporations—particularly those in the extractive industries—have literally gotten away w...ith murder, hiring mercenaries to assassinate vocal critiques of their operations. In other cases, they wreak environmental havoc, exploiting weak environmental regulation in developing nations in order to carry out their operations with utter disregard to sustainability or the wellbeing of local communities.
Contact name:
Christine
Contact email:
Occupy Los Angeles and City of L.A. call for an end to corporate personhood
On Dec. 3, just two days before Occupy L.A. was evicted by police, the General Assembly of the occupation passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood.
Then on Dec. 6, the City Council of Los Angeles also voted, also unanimously, for a resolution making the same appeal.
