Workplace Campaigns News
- 23 April 2013 Temporary Foreign Workers: Mark Carney Says Admissions Must Be Temporary, Aimed At High Skills Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says the controversial temporary foreign workers program should not be used to drive wages down or to fill lower-skilled jobs.
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9 April 2013
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The Globe and Mail
Reining In The Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Reports of RBC outsourcing jobs to temporary foreign workers to replace existing Canadian employees should prompt a broader debate about the massive expansion of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in recent years.
- 7 April 2013 | CBC News RBC Replaces Canadian Staff With Foreign Workers Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada to take over the work of their department.
- 7 April 2013 | Chinese Canadian National Council Review of Temporary Foreign Worker Program Needed The Chinese Canadian National Council called on the federal Government to place a moratorium on further applications for temporary foreign workers until the economy recovers.
- 22 March 2013 Federal Budget 2013: Modest Improvements in Job Training in Federal Budget: Goar Jim Flaherty got one thing right: Canada’s job training system needs an overhaul.
- 20 March 2013 Temporary Foreign Workers: The Rising Risk of a Guest-Worker Class Canada now takes in nearly as many temporary workers as it does immigrants. The number has tripled in the past decade.
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18 June 2012
Vale Unsustainability Report 2012
Since 2010, the International Movement of People Affected by Vale has been sharing experiences and formulating strategies for collective action to confront public authorities and the corporation itself in defence of the environment, workers and the affected communities.
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13 June 2012
Vote Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold
Vote for Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold 2012! Rio Tinto is providing the metal for the 2012 Olympic Medals.
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23 May 2012
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Action Alert
Tell the Canadian Olympic Committee that Rio Tinto Has No Place in the Olympic Games
Join the LabourStart campaign and stand with Steelworkers locked out by Rio Tinto Alcan. Send a protest message to demand that the International Olympic Committee end its relationship with Rio Tinto.
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11 May 2012
RTA Lockout at Alma Quebec - Help Get Rio Tinto Off the Olympic Podium!
Rio Tinto's anti-worker and environmentally damaging practices betray the Olympic spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
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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’
The United Steelworkers, is calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games, because the company's treatment of its own workers does not live up to the Olympic spirit.
- 16 April 2012 | Winnipeg Free Press Locked out Rio Tinto Workers in London to Denounce Mining Giant's Olympic Role Steelworkers representing locked out Rio Tinto Alcan workers in Quebec were in London on Monday to denounce the mining giant's participation in the upcoming Olympic Games.
- 12 April 2012 | In These Times Rio Tinto Is on the Stand Over Olympic Medals, Shareholder Meeting When top athletes ascend the awards podium at the Summer Olympic Games in London, the medals draped around their necks will be made primarily of metals mined by the London-based multinational company Rio Tinto.
- 21 March 2012 | Chronicle Herald Striking Ontario Steelworkers Picket BMO Shareholder Meeting Steelworkers, along with a giant inflatable rat, travelled to Halifax, NS on March 20, 2012 to attend the Bank of Montreal's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. USW is protesting the bank's role in prolonging the strike at Infinity Rubber.
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5 March 2012
Massive Rally in Alma, Quebec on March 31
Support workers locked out by Rio Tinto. Join us in Alma, Quebec on March 31 for a massive rally. Tell Rio Tinto to stop their war on workers.
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2 March 2012
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Media Release
Worldwide Unions Launch Campaign Against Rio Tinto
On February 29, three global union federations whose affiliates comprise over 50 million union members unanimously adopted a resolution to conduct a global campaign against Rio Tinto for the lock-out of 800 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in Alma, Quebec.
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23 February 2012
Canadian Steelworkers Bring Smelter Protest to New Zealand
New Zealand mining and maritime workers are invited to local events in support of Canadian Steelworkers locked out by Rio Tinto in Alma, Quebec.
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23 February 2012
Rio Tinto Lockout - Downloadable Flyers
Download, print and share these flyers to help support Steelworkers in Alma, Quebec, locked out by Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto owes their workers a fair deal.
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20 December 2011
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media release
Steelworkers to Suppliers of Infinity Rubber: Exercise Caution
United Steelworkers informs Infinity Rubber suppliers and creditors of a business reorganization that could affect the company's ability to pay them.
- 31 October 2011 | Rubber & Plastics News USW takes on Bank in Infinity strike Rubber industry publication Rubber & Plastics News reports on the USW campaign targeting the Bank of Montreal for its financing of Infinity Rubber, where USW members have been on strike for almost two years.
- 20 September 2011 | Media release Union-Busting Alumicor Boss Hounded in Australia "Laughably, while trying to cut the pay of workers who made him rich, Kerwin is in Australia to speak at a business conference on Operational Excellence and the Power of Teamwork."
- 7 February 2011 Steelworkers Create National Council to Challenge Airport Security Changes The United Steelworkers union (USW) is calling on the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to uphold the rights of thousands of pre-board screeners at Canada's airports.
- 27 January 2011 University of Guelph USW Members Protecting Pensions Information picket leads to positive media coverage.
- 1 December 2010 Anti-Scab Law Helps Resolve Hotel Labour Dispute “Experience shows that anti-scab legislation benefits workers, employers, their communities and the economy as a whole.”
- 22 November 2010 Sears Workers Approve New Contract – Lockout to End
- 20 September 2010 Steelworkers, FIR Reach Tentative Deal in Coastal Forest Industry
- 17 September 2010 Two-Year Brantford Strike Exposes Need for Anti-Scab Law
- 3 September 2010 Ont. Families Should Not Pay for Corporate Tax Cuts
- 3 September 2010 Steelworkers Fighting Ontario’s Wage Freeze Project Steelworkers and other unions are resisting the government’s effort to extend a compensation freeze to all unionized workers. Our members should not have to pay the price for reckless corporate tax cuts and other misguided provincial policies.
- 23 August 2010 Steelworkers Ratify Agreement With Western Forest Products
- 17 August 2010 Steelworkers, CONIFER Reach Tentative Deal in BC Northern Interior
- 17 June 2010 Victory for Taxi Workers at Toronto City Hall
- 1 June 2010 Pension Gains Highlight New Contract at Xstrata-CCR
- 4 May 2010 Short Strike Produces Results