ABBOTSFORD, BC, Aug. 22, 2014 /CNW/ - Unifor members at the Cascade Aerospace facility have ratified a settlement offer by a margin of 96%. Cascade workers have been off the job for 11 weeks to achieve greater job security and resist cuts to young workers' benefits.
“Today, we are proud to introduce our new union as Unifor, a union that will fight for working people in every sector of the economy and in every community...
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TORONTO, Aug. 19, 2014 /CNW/ - The union representing 45,000 transportation workers in Canada says that the federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) recommendations released today are weak and will not adequately protect the public from future accidents. The TSB's Railway Investigation Report reviewed the Lac Mégantic rail disaster and was to provide guidelines to prevent future loss of life.
TORONTO, Aug. 19, 2014 /CNW/ - Striking Bombardier workers from Thunder Bay are set to address today's TTC board meeting to urge the commission not to accept vehicles assembled by replacement workers.
TORONTO, Aug. 14, 2014 /CNW/ - Striking Bombardier workers from Thunder Bay wrap up three days of activities in Toronto to put pressure on the TTC not to accept new vehicles assembled by replacement workers and to raise awareness about Bombardier's attempt to slash pensions and retiree benefits despite record profits.
Since the beginning of the year, six special Working Groups have been holding multiple meetings to develop a plan of action for the formation of the new union.
JIM STANFORD - Economist with Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector trade union, published in the Globe and Mail, Letters to the Editor on August 11, 2014
The first national Unifor women’s conference is calling for a federal action plan on the issue of violence against women, including an inquiry into the murdered and missing Aboriginal women.
Our repeated call for action comes on the heels of a brutal attack suffered by a woman in Thunder Bay and her daughter, in Thunder Bay, at the hands of a former intimate partner. The woman survived the attack, but her daughter, 8 years old, was killed yesterday morning.
TORONTO, Aug. 12, 2014 /CNW/ - Striking Bombardier workers from Thunder Bay are headed to Toronto to put pressure on the TTC not to accept vehicles assembled by replacement workers and to encourage municipal and provincial governments to urge the employer to reconsider their attack on workers' pensions.
