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Mass meeting sends U of T agreement to ratification

CUPE 3902 members vote on the proposed agreement after a five-hour mass meeting. Photo: Mick Sweetman
CUPE 3902 members voted in favour of sending a tentative U of T agreement to a unit-wide ratification vote.

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CUPE 3902 bargaining committee members resign over tentative agreement

Photo: Jesse McLaren
CUPE 3902 bargaining committee members have resigned in protest over a tentative agreement with the University of Toronto.

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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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Video: Sears continues lock out of warehouse employees

Five hundred Sears Canada warehouse employees remain on the picket lines.
Five hundred Sears Canada warehouse employees remain on the picket lines.

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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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Asia Pacific Currents

Hong Kong dock workers win: Analysis of the dispute

May 18, 2013
| Interview with Au Loong Yu, editor of the China Labour Net website, who provided an analysis of the outcome of the Hong Kong dockworkers' strike and the broader political context.
Length: 28:25 minutes (13.01 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Hong Kong dock workers strike for a month -- and counting

April 27, 2013
| Labour news from around the Asia Pacific region, and an interview about the month-long Hong Kong dock workers' strike, with Wong Loy from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions.
Length: 27:29 minutes (12.58 MB)
Lori Theresa Waller

Labour news this week: ILO condemns Canada Post back-to-work law; Ontario Law Commission reports on precarious work

| April 5, 2013
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