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OPINION
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CHAPTER 2I:
TEMPORARY WORKERS ARE DYING
Enrico Miranda was killed on the job September 25 2019
DOUG FORD DIDN'T KILL ENRICO MIRANDA...
CATCH 22
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Rick Woodburn, negotiating team member and Perry Borden, president of the Nova Scotia Crown Attorneys’ Association
WHEN IS A WORKER NOT A WORKER? When you work as a crown attorney in Nova Scotia.
On the one hand, the government of Nova Scotia acknowledges the Crowns have a right to strike. On the other hand, the government has moved to restrict, or outright refuse, to allow its lawyers to exercise that right.
The 100 crown attorneys in the...
STRIKING DIFFERENCE
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WORKERS KNOW THEY ARE THEIR OWN BEST FRIENDS. That’s why they go on strike, says Jane McAlevey. That’s why 49,000 UAW (United Autoworkers Union) members went on strike September 16, she says.
“Workers learn to strike and have the confidence to strike by watching other workers strike and win,” says McAlevey, a union organizer, author, and scholar at the...
This month in labour rights history
It was this day that Quebec Premier Jean Lesage in his opening statement at the Federal-Provincial Conference in Ottawa made this famous quote "The Queen does not negotiate with her subjects more...
November 26, 1963
In Quotes
“The countries in which union density rates are higher are also the ones in which the welfare state is more developed, taxation levels higher and more progressive, collective bargaining more centralized and labour law both closer to international labour standards and better implemented.” more...
International Labour Organization, World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization,