Posted on Mon, Feb 16 2009
A snippet from a recent article in the Montréal Gazette:
“Crying poor, these publicly funded bodies routinely say they don’t have enough money to compete, to balance their budgets, hire and keep the best professors and provide their students with the best facilities, scholarships or libraries…Meanwhile, the people in the top offices have embraced a corporate business model that promises generous compensation on a par with what they believe they could pull in the private sector – deals that persist even if they don’t live up to their advance billing or, indeed, turn out to be liabilities.”
The full story is here.
Posted on Wed, Feb 11 2009
About a dozen AUFA members joined representatives from unions across the province on Sunday to show their support for the 187 Eastern Protein Foods workers who have been laid off and are being denied their earned severance and vacation pay. The laid-off workers are members of CAW Local 2216.
200 people participated in the rally at Kentville’s Centre Square and the march through downtown Kentville.
Posted on Wed, Feb 04 2009
There will be a “Rally for Fairness” at 12 noon on Sunday, February 8 at Centre Square in Kentville in support of the 187 recently laid-off workers at Eastern Protein Foods who are being denied severance and vacation pay.
The Canadian Auto Workers’ national President Ken Lewenza will be in attendance and will address the group. The laid-off workers are members of CAW Local 2216.
CAW Local 2216 member Dean Tupper says it is bad enough that 187 workers lost their jobs, but to not get money owing to them is devastating. “Last Fall, the Nova Scotia Government gave ACA Co-operative a $3.5 million working capital loan and we are now asking the government to put pressure on the company to honour its commitment to its workers and pay them money owed to them.”
“The CEO of ACA was quoted as saying the company would do everything they can financially to help the employees and now it is time to do that,” said Tupper. Other speakers include: Nova Scotia Federation of Labour President Rick Clarke; Canadian Labour Congress Atlantic Representative Tony Tracy and Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council President Kyle Buott.
Posted on Wed, Jan 21 2009
CUPE Local 3903 voted against the York University administration’s offer in a forced ratification vote held Monday and Tuesday. 69% of members voted, and 63% of those voted to reject the offer.
Ontario labour law allows the employer to bypass the negotiating process in this manner by allowing one, and only one, forced ratification vote in which the employer presents a contract directly to the membership.
Today marks the beginning of the 12th week of the strike.