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As labour fights multiply, so too will the victories

The ground shifted for the Canadian labour movement this week. Monday night 4,000 thousand Air Canada workers walked off the job, joining 50,000 CUPW workers already on rotating strikes. CAW and CUPW-two unions that have made breakthrough gains in past struggles-are blocking further stripping of their pension and benefit plans, and are refusing to agree to lower living standards for new workers.

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CUPW keeps its options open in strike negotiations

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The class struggle in Vaughan: The Sears lockout and USW

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. One could not ask for a better symbol of retail-capital's attitude toward their workers. Workers at this supply warehouse have been locked-out since April Fool's Day after rejecting a concessionary offer. They have been fighting an uphill battle against a nefarious employer who has not shrunk from hiring scabs and pitting the warehouse workers against the retail workers.

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Not Rex: The battle of all mothers

Wasn't the G8 supposed to be about maternal health? Humberto da Silva reports from Massey Centre for Women in Toronto where workers have been forced to strike.

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Smash the State March in Review: Police brutality, pipelines and watching CSIS

April 20, 2012
| The Smash the State Report features from the #mediacoop -- which looked at #policebrutality against the ongoing #occupytoronto efforts, resistance to the federal budget and much more!

56:50 minutes (52.04 MB)
Redeye

B.C. teachers adopt plan to fight Bill 22

April 4, 2012
| The B.C. government passed Bill 22 on March 15. It bans further strikes and sets the conditions for mediation. The B.C. Teachers Federation met for its annual convention two days later.

16:25 minutes (15.03 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Human rights in Sri Lanka

March 24, 2012
| Labour updates in the Asia Pacific region and an interview with activist Lionel Bopage on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and the upcoming People for Human Rights and Equality forum.

31:17 minutes (14.32 MB)
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