Employees of Aveos were left holding the bag after the company shut down last week.
labour rights
Austerity and disability: Opposing Bill 83
A bill passed second reading in the Ontario Legislature on Oct. 28, a bill that is a clear danger to the labour movement's ability to win fair contracts and defend public services. Bill 83, which essentially outlaws picketing outside of group homes that are housing people with intellectual and other disabilities that require home care.
June 14, 2013 |
Today’s Supreme Court decision on mandatory random alcohol testing is a victory in the battle to protect workers’ privacy rights
June 10, 2013 |
Bill C-377 is a solution in search of a problem. This bill has little to do with transparency, as the government claims.
June 7, 2013 |
The bill is masked as an attempt to provide workers with a choice in whether or not to join a union, but in reality, it is a further attempt to dismantle the rights of workers to join a union.
Let us not forget the Bangladesh disaster
Nothing will erase from my mind's eye the picture of long lines of young women, snaking along the road, in rain or shine going to work in the many, many garment factories to be found all over Dhaka, crammed into every kind of structure, from one time apartments, to tenements to sheds.
Every now and then, colour coded plastic raincoats spoke to the small largesse of some factory management, but on the whole, if it rained they walked soaking. Quietly. Purposively.
This amazing fortitude was also demonstrated in the survival in the recent Rana Plaza tragedy -- which was particularly horrific because it was avoidable.
May 15, 2013 |
The Wall government, in its latest bid to quash workers' rights, has passed new legislation which essentially recasts Saskatchewan's entire labour laws.
May Day rallies in Venezuela celebrate new labour rights law
On Wednesday both pro-government and opposition supporters held large marches in Caracas, as well as smaller ones around the country, to mark International Workers Day. While government supporters celebrated a minimum wage increase and the new labour law, opponents of the government demanded a "fair wage."
President Nicolas Maduro marched with the pro-government march in Caracas, while opposition leader Henrique Capriles also marched with his supporters in the eastern part of the capital.
Two marches in Caracas: A city and country divided
May 1, 2013 |
We can all question how far this government is willing to go to break the unions, but a more important question is what are you willing to do to stop them?