Vancouver Sun
May 22, 2008

The results of the 2006 census on income were recently published and produced screaming headlines about the enormous wage decline in Canada over the past 25 years. The income gap between rich and poor is widening, immigrant incomes are plummeting and young people entering the labour market are earning less than their parents a generation ago. (Keep reading…)

Financial Post
May 9, 2008

When lawmakers were busy sketching out the details of the North American Free Trade agreement in 1988, Buzz Hargrove, then assistant to Canadian Auto Workers president Bob White, said the union would “fight like hell” against lower U.S. wages and benefits that could creep into Canada. (Keep reading…)

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May 2, 2008

On Thursday, May 1, the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) staged a one-day (one shift, actually) walkout as a protest against the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The shutdown affected ports up and down the West Coast, from San Pedro, California, to Seattle, Washington. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail
April 28, 2008

The Canadian Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. [F-N] have reached an unprecedented master agreement on a new contract — almost five months before the current deal expires — that freezes wages and reduces vacation pay, but which the union says beats back the two-tiered wage system introduced in the United States. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension  

16 April 2008 - CAIA extends its warm congratulations to the delegates of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers national convention held in Ottawa, Canada, April 13-17th 2008. At the convention, CUPW passed an historic resolution, Resolution 338/339, in support of the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli Apartheid. This resolution is an extremely significant landmark for the Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada. It represents the first time in North American history that a national union has passed a BDS resolution. The resolution recognizes Israel as an apartheid state and expresses CUPW’s support for boycott and divestment from Israel. It was passed almost unanimously after nearly one hour of discussion on the convention floor. (Keep reading…)

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The Toronto & York Region Labour Council has launched a campaign around an Action Agenda to build labour power in the 21st century. (Keep reading…)

February 29 2008:     http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=626

Quebec’s well-deserved reputation as having the most progressive labour laws on the continent has taken a hit after a recent Quebec Court of Appeal ruling determined that Wal-Mart Canada Corp. did not transgress the province’s Labour Code when it closed down a store shortly after employees became the first to earn union accreditation in North America. (Keep reading…)

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Special to Globe and Mail Update
February 22, 2008

When Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove makes new pronouncements, they carry weight both within and beyond the labour movement ˜ even when, as has recently been the case, they seem to undermine what Canadian unions have always stood for. What, then, to make of his defiant declaration, in response to the permanent two-tier system negotiated in the United States, that this is “one automotive import that won’t cross the border into Canada” in bargaining this fall? (Keep reading…)