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.
On Monday, January 7, you'll be invited to take a moment to let us know your opinions and ideas and participate in the first part of this exciting process...
We will be a union for workers, a union for the unemployed, a union for women, a union for new Canadians, a union for young workers and the precariously employed...
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.
