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Written byUnifor Western Director Joie Warnock in response to a news release issued on July 28th
In a news release issued on July 28, trade minister Ed Fast and BC Finance Minister Mike DeJong struggled to put a positive spin on an increasingly ugly situation at Cascade Aerospace.
ABBOTSFORD, BC, Aug. 6, 2014 /CNW/ - Striking Cascade Aerospace technicians (Unifor Local 114) and their allies from across the Lower Mainland will be picketing the Aerospace, Defense, and Security Expo (ADSE) to protest the ongoing attempts by Cascade's owners to cut benefits for new employees.
TORONTO, July 31, 2014 /CNW/ - A Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruling today rebuffed Rogers Broadcasting Limited's request for sweeping regulatory relief for its OMNI ethnic television chain in spite of recent financial losses at those five stations.
In the same decision, the CRTC will require Rogers to enhance its commitments to original local programming broadcast from its national chain of City stations.
The wretched and horrific violence in the Middle East, including the blanket and abhorrent killing of innocents, the vast majority of them Gazan civilians, the resulting dire humanitarian crisis and the rocket bombings of residential communities in Israel demands the world community act immediately to end these offences.
Like so many in the world, Unifor is appalled by the acts of terror and violence and the senseless killing.
TORONTO, July 31, 2014 /CNW/ - Canada's largest media union, Unifor, will be available to comment following a ruling from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Rogers Broadcasting's request to water down programming commitments at OMNI and City TV stations in BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario.
HALIFAX, July 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Local union leadership at Bell Aliant are welcoming the announcement of a $2.1 billion capital investment. Earlier this week, BCE, which already controls Bell Aliant, announced that it is acquiring the interest of public minority shareholders in Bell Aliant for roughly $3.95 billion.
Unifor Western Director Joie Warnock wrote a column for the July 15 edition of the Province newspaper explaining what is behind the strike by Unifor Local 114 workers at Cascade Aerospace in Abbotsford, BC.
If you don’t go to Abbotsford often, you may not have noticed 24-hour-a-day picket lines at Cascade Aerospace.
Russ Day, Unifor Local 601 unit chair at the Chevron Burnaby Refinery, recently had the Letter of the Day in the Vancouver Province newspaper. The following letter appeared June 29:
A recent editorial from a handful of construction unions (“Northern Gateway pipeline needed to enrich us all”) was long on rhetoric about the Northern Gateway pipeline and short on facts.
According to the Alberta Federation of Labour, only 228 permanent jobs will be created from a pipeline opposed by 130 First Nations, most BC municipalities, and half of British Columbians.
