By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett Fifty years ago this week, we watched a man tell the world about his dream. 300,000 people from all over America came to Washington, DC on August 28, 1963 for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the […]
In what is becoming an annual tradition for workers north of Toronto, the CCU has organized the fourth annual Barrie Labour Day Event for Monday, September 2, 2013. The picnic, featuring music, food, guest speakers and fun for the kids, will take place at Sunnidale Park, and everyone’s invited. Last year, over 500 people attended, […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett Right now in Russia, the host of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics Games, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are facing untold oppression and brutality. The government has recently established new, draconian laws that violate their basic rights and put them at huge risk of further violence. The Confederation […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett The Confederation of Canadian Unions and its affiliates throughout the country have been leaders in the fightback against the bureaucratic and anti-democratic C-377, a private members bill put forth by Conservative MP Russ Heibert. As we have said before, the bill will radically increase red tape and the administration […]
CCU President Joanie Cameron Pritchett and Vice President John Hanrahan are calling on workers everywhere to support PPWC (Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada) Local 16 in British Columbia, currently on strike for wage fairness and economic justice. PPWC Local 16 and RockTenn were not able to bring the collective bargaining process to a successful […]
Labour unions in Turkey are fighting back against the repressive measures of Prime Minister Erdogan and his authoritarian government. Lives are at risk as there are threats of imprisonment and violence against labour union members and peaceful democracy activists. CCU Vice-President John Hanrahan is calling on everyone to join the LabourStart campaign to stand in […]
By Robin Smith, Second Vice-President York University Staff Association In recent weeks, we have all seen or heard news stories about the Bangladeshi workers who were either injured or crushed to death when the garment factory where they worked collapsed. Scenarios such as this have occurred countless times in recent years, and have spawned an […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett You’ve got to hand it to the Conservatives: they really know how to score political points. When it comes to exploiting people’s fears and using it to ram through legislation that takes away civil liberties and individual freedoms, Prime Minister Harper is a master magician. Is it ironic that […]
Like the 2011 Federal and Ontario Provincial elections, the Confederation of Canadian Unions is once again establishing a political education campaign, named BC Workers Vote, to help its membership make informed voting choices for the 2013 British Columbia general election on May 14. The following twelve questions have been sent to all four major parties […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett They say that politics is the art of getting votes from the working class and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. It’s quite clear to Canadians that the federal Conservative government is interested in just one of these groups, with recent budgets […]