Employees of Aveos were left holding the bag after the company shut down last week.
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Workers at Ottawa's Salvation Army shelter ask for a living wage
Workers at Ottawa's Salvation Army shelter say it is increasingly difficult to work for poverty wages.
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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.
Video: Chicago workers open new cooperative factory five years after Republic Windows occupation
Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and operated business. Almost a year to the day after their window factory closed, a group of former workers have launched their own window business without bosses. They successfully raised money to buy the factory collectively and run it democratically. In 2008, some of the workers were involved in a famous six-day sit-in after Republic Windows and Doors gave workers just three days' notice before closing the factory. The sit-in drew national attention and union workers reached a settlement where they each received $6,000 each. About 65 workers occupied the factory after their jobs came under threat again in 2012.
Injured Workers' Day 30th Anniversary
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location
Queen's Park - Ontario Legislature
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
See map: Google Maps
30th Anniversary of Injured Workers’ Day!
Saturday June 1st at 11:00 am
Queen’s Park – Ontario Legislature
Celebrate and call for justice for injured workers!
Since 1983, injured workers and their allies have come together on June 1st to celebrate their achievements, and to invigorate the struggle for justice for injured workers. This year, we ask you to join us at Queen’s Park on Saturday June 1st to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Injured Workers’ Day, as we unite in our efforts to bring about a just compensation system that truly protects the rights of injured workers.
Memo to Joe Fresh: Get smart and don't be Walmart
If Joe Fresh is serious about helping Bangaldeshi garment workers that make his schmata, there is one thing he can do that is proven to help...
'Whatever business wants': Harper government continues attack on workers
Some believe the Public Service Alliance of Canada's "Stephen Harper Hates Me" campaign slogan is over the top. But it may actually be too limited in scope. Harper's bunch hasn't just targeted those employed in the public service, but every Canadian whose pay and work conditions interferes with the corporate world's drive for ever more profit.
Harper's discreet class war against working people
The willingness of much of the Canadian media to go along with the Conservative narrative about Stephen Harper's "moderation" has allowed the prime minister to wage a discreet class war against working people without attracting too much attention.
Canadians don't like Harper's anti-worker agenda -- when they notice it. That's why there's been such a public outcry since the temporary foreign worker program was exposed as a mechanism by which the Harper government has flooded the country with hundreds of thousands of cheap foreign workers, thereby suppressing Canadian wages in the interests of helping corporations.