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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
Saskatchewan's new CCF government passed the Trade Union Act, the first legislation of its kind in North America to give government employees the right to form unions and bargain collectively more...
November 14, 1944