Hickman Chrysler Dodge Jeep salespeople, organized with Teamsters Local 855 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, are entering their third week of struggle after being locked out by the dealership. This comes after the union went through a failed conciliation process with the employer. Since the beginning, workers wanted nothing more than to keep their existing contract […]

“There is a widespread sense that workers are treated in a dehumanizing manner by the company. Co-workers express this in various ways, complaining that we are treated like “animals,” “slaves,” or “machines,” but the fundamental sentiment is the same: that the company does not treat us with dignity but instead sees as less than human, as objects which can be milked for profit and then discarded.”

Canada Post temporarily suspended two Regina postal workers in January after they refused to deliver a free sample edition of far-right newspaper The Epoch Times. Mail carriers Ramiro Sepulveda and Linying Su were both suspended without pay for three days after telling managers that they would not deliver the publication. The Epoch Times is affiliated […]

“In the same breath that they tell us that case counts in the plant are on a sharp incline they have the audacity to tell us that this workplace is still safe?”

The overwhelming majority of workers at Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto voted to unionize this week, rejecting the scare tactics of the company owned by billionaire Jim Pattison. On Friday morning, Unifor confirmed about 70 per cent of voting aquarium workers opted in favor of unionizing. That overwhelming mandate comes after months of layoffs, pay cuts, […]

Unifor Local 444 leaders in Windsor erected a blockade in front of the Walker Road and Vimy Avenue entrance to the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Assembly Plant on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 5. The blockade is a response to FCA Canada’s recently announced plan to lay off 60 Unifor 444 workers employed by a […]

A union drive at Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto is gaining momentum. This is the result of the company’s insistence that its workers pay for the COVID-19 crisis with layoffs, pay cuts and hazardous workplace conditions. Starting Wednesday afternoon, the union drive at the aquarium will be put to a vote, after months of organizing through […]

Despite lockdowns in many major cities, COVID-19 cases continue to rise. This is because transmission is occurring in manufacturing and so-called “essential” services. Bosses are putting profits before health with impunity. Governments are hiding the names of businesses with outbreaks. As the infection and death rate rises, conspicuous in their silence are the leaders of […]

Workers at Tropicana Community Services have entered their fourth week of a strike after taking to the picket lines on Nov. 9. After 39 years of providing support for the Scarborough area, the workers at Tropicana voted to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2 back in July 2019. Since then negotiations with […]

After the latest in sixteen rounds of negotiations between Blaisdale Montessori and CUPE Local 5257 failed yet again, the 100-plus employees, already struggling without “fair wages and a fair contract” since last year, decided to walk out of the workplace starting Nov. 16.  The delicate nature of caring for toddlers, with additional precautions due to […]