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14 May 2012
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Media release
New Cuts to Airport Security Screeners Will Compromise Passenger Safety, Wait Times
The elimination of hundreds of security screeners at airports throughout Quebec and Atlantic Canada will compromise passenger safety and increase wait times for travellers.
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14 May 2012
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Media Release
WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy
Blue Green Canada, with other Canadian NGOs and labour unions, have sent an amicus curiae submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) responding to Japan’s and the European Union’s joint attack on the Ontario Green Energy Act.
- 9 May 2012 | Media release United Steelworkers Welcome Announcement of New Smelter in Sudbury “Thousands of jobs will be created during development of the Sudbury smelter, the chromite mine and concentrating plant in northwestern Ontario and all the related infrastructure.” - Leo W. Gerard, USW International President
- 9 May 2012 | CBC News Ex-Westray Miner Calls for Law Crackdown to Protect Workers A former Westray Mine worker gave an emotional account on Parliament Hill of how he tried to rescue fellow miners following a deadly explosion at the Plymouth, N.S., site 20 years ago, and urged for more to be done to protect employees.
- 8 May 2012 | Media release HONOURING WESTRAY: Steelworkers Launch Campaign to Enforce Criminal Code On the 20th anniversary of the Westray Mine explosion, the United Steelworkers union (USW) is launching a renewed effort to ensure enforcement of the 2004 Westray Act.
- 7 May 2012 | Media advisory 20 Year Anniversary of Westray Disaster, Launch of Campaign to Put Legislation into Practice The 20th anniversary of the Westray Coal mine explosion, as well as the need to enforce Criminal Code changes brought about by the tragedy, are being recognized Tuesday on Parliament Hill.
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3 May 2012
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Media release
Steelworkers Hail Mexican Court Decision in Favour of Los Mineros Union Leader Gomez
Mexico's Supreme Court restores legal recognition to Napoleon Gomez as National President of Los Mineros – the National Union of Mining, Metallurgical, Steel and Allied Workers of Mexico.
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3 May 2012
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Speech by Ken Neumann
Ken Neumann Addresses Los Mineros General Convention
“To Napoleón Gómez Urrutia and to all the members of Los Mineros, the Steelworkers and Workers Uniting say: You are our sisters and our brothers. Your struggle is our struggle. Together we will keep standing up and fighting back.”
- 30 April 2012 | Hamilton Spectator Hundreds gather to pay respects to fallen workers The message to the hundreds crammed into Hamilton City Hall council chambers for the Day of Mourning was clear: no matter how deep the grief or how shocking the loss, the numbers of workers who die or are injured on the job continues.
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27 April 2012
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Statement
Day of Mourning 2012
April 28 is the National Day of Mourning, a day to remember workers killed, injured or made ill by their work. This is a day to reflect on the past, remember what's happened and honour those who sacrificed there lives.
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26 April 2012
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Media release
Locked-Out Quebec Workers File Complaint Against Rio Tinto with London Olympic Organizing Committee
Former Olympian Bruce Kidd gives 'Off The Podium' campaign new momentum in bid to cancel medals deal.
- 24 April 2012 | Media Release Two Deadly Sawmill Explosions Warrant Immediate Action: Steelworkers The United Steelworkers (USW) union extends its deepest condolences to the families of workers killed and injured at the Lakeland Sawmill in Prince George, B.C.
- 24 April 2012 | Media Release Steelworkers Applaud NDP Improvements to Ontario's Budget The United Steelworkers (USW) union welcomes the modest tax increase for Ontario's richest and income increase for Ontario's poorest achieved by New Democrats in budget negotiations with the provincial government.
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19 April 2012
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Media Release
Momentum Growing To Get Rio Tinto Off The Olympic Podium
Three of Australia's biggest blue-collar unions announced today that they will back an international campaign to remove mining giant Rio Tinto as an Olympic supplier for this summer's London Games.
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18 April 2012
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Media release
Steelworkers and Global Partners Call Out Vale Shareholders
Report on Vale's Unsustainability presents an unflattering portrait of the corporation’s labour, social and environmental record in many regions of the world.
- 17 April 2012 | International Media Global Media Spotlight on Campaign to Kick Rio Tinto Off Olympic Podium News media from around the world are reporting on an international campaign that calls on the International Olympic Committee to drop resource giant Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games.
- 17 April 2012 | Media release Vale’s Shareholders to Hear of Workers’ Rights Abuses Steelworkers join Brazilian allies at Vale’s annual shareholders meeting to denounce the global mining giant’s abuses of workers’, community and environmental rights.
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16 April 2012
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Media Release
Locked-Out Workers Launch International Campaign to Get Rio Tinto 'OFF the Olympic Podium'
One of the world's largest industrial unions, the United Steelworkers, is calling for the International Olympic Committee to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games.
- 5 April 2012 | Media release Scores of Deaths, Thousands of Injuries Warrant Mine Safety Inquiry By publicly dismissing an inquiry into mine safety, Ontario Labour Minister Lynda Jeffrey has trivialized scores of deaths and thousands of injuries suffered by miners over the last 30 years
- 3 April 2012 | Sault Star Local Steelworkers President Slams Government for Blaming Baby Boomers Letter to the editor from a Steelworker Local Union President dismayed by the federal budget released March 29.
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