SEPTEMBER 2016
September 5, 2016
Labour
Day
2016
• The Working Class – An Independent
Organized Force for the Defence of Rights and a Pro-Social Future -
Workers' Centre of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Photo Review
September 8, 2016
Quebec
Government
Bill
110
to
Decree Working Conditions in the Municipal Sector
• Salient Features of the
Anti-Social Offensive
• Bill 110 Destroys the Arrangements
for
Resolving Conflicts in the Public Sector - Pierre
Chénier
• Invoking "Taxpayers' Ability to
Pay" to
Justify an Attack on Workers' Rights and the Elimination of Negotiations
- K.C. Adams
• Blue Collar Workers Are Determined
to Defend
Their Rights
For Your Information
• A Process Leading Straight to the
Special Law
Decreeing Working Conditions
September 15, 2016
Labour
Day
2016 --
Fighting for the Rights of All!
• Workers Express Profound Concern
for Their
Living and Working Conditions
Holding U.S. Steel to
Account
• Your Pension Is Not as Secure as
You Think
• Michigan Sues U.S. Steel to Curb
Sulphur
Dioxide Emissions
Injured Workers In
Alberta Fight for Their Right to Adequate Compensation
• Justice for Injured Workers!
September 22, 2016
All Out for the Mass Picket at MANA
Gates Friday Morning, September 30
• Stand
with MANA Steelworkers in Defence of Their Rights and Dignity! Stand
with All Workers in Defence of Their Rights and Dignity!
Government
Task
Force Report on Canada Post
• Mandate Review Used to Attack
Workers' Rights -
Louis Lang
• The Value Postal Workers Produce
-
K.C.
Adams
September 29, 2016
Bogus
Insolvency
Proceedings
in
the
Steel
Sector
• The Bedrock Proposal Is Not a
Solution
• Essar Algoma -- Another CCAA
Restructuring
Deal Concocted Behind the Backs of Those Directly Affected
Harassment and
Criminalization of Railway Workers
• Trudeau Government Must Not Give
Rail
Monopolies Access to On-Board Recordings
• Rail Monopolies' Demands Are About
Management
Through Fear and Intimidation, Not Safety - Interview, Doug
Finnson, President, Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
OCTOBER 2016
October 6, 2016
Workers
Defend
Their
Right
to
Speak
Out
and
Organize in Defence of Their Interests
• Air Canada Forced to Reinstate
Editor of New
Horizons and Another Flight Attendant Arbitrarily Fired
• Mobilization of Workers Leads to
Reinstatement of Suspended Mineworker
• Nurses Denounce Conspiracy of
Silence in
Health System
• Mass Picket in Solidarity with
Locked-Out
MANA Workers
• Steelworker Killed at U.S. Steel
Gary Works
• Statement from United Steelworkers
Local 1014
Gary Works, October 1
October 13, 2016
No
to
the
Austerity
Agenda!
Defend Rights of Public Sector Workers and Services They Provide
• Nova Scotia Public Sector Workers Reject
McNeil Government's Anti-Social Austerity Agenda
• Discussion with Jason MacLean,
President of
Nova Scotia Government and General Employees' Union
• Growing Resistance to Quebec
Government's
Bill 10
• Effect on New Brunswick of Federal
Cuts to
Health Transfers - Interview, Daniel Légère,
President, Canadian Union of Public Employees New Brunswick
Fight for Secure Work
and Higher Wages
• Mass Rally Demands Changes to
Ontario Labour
Law
Precarious
Existence
for
Steelworkers
and
Retirees
• Resistance to U.S. Steel's Attacks
• Time for a New Direction and Aim
for the
Economy
October 20, 2016
Steelworkers
Confront
Monopoly
Front
of
Financial Oligarchy and Its Supranational Arrangements
• CCAA Judge Rules Port of Algoma Must
Continue to
Serve Essar Steel Algoma Without Payment
• Bedrock Industries Group Proposal
to
Restructure U.S. Steel Canada
• Inter-Monopoly Battles Rage within
Canada's
Steel Sector
Opposition to
Anti-Social Offensive
• Mass Mobilizations Defend Public
Seniors'
Care on BC's Sunshine Coast
• Montreal Demonstration Calls for
Higher
Minimum Wage and Changes to Labour Laws
October 27, 2016
Steelworkers
Oppose
Restructuring
in
the
Service
of
Narrow
Private
Interests
• Damage Caused by Inter-Monopoly
Dogfight and
Its Airing of Dirty Linen
- K.C. Adams
• Inter-Monopoly Fight Continues in
the Steel
Sector
Fort McMurray Workers
Demand Their Rights
• Fighting to Rebuild After
Devastating Forest
Fire - Marie Thibault
Workers Demand Audit
of Canadian Food Inspection Agency Resources
• Need to Defend Food Safety of
Canadians - Pierre Chénier
Teachers, Students,
Parents and Allies Continue to Fight for Their Schools
• BC Liberal Government Fires
Vancouver School
Board - Anne Jamieson
NOVEMBER 2016
November 3, 2016
U.S.
Steel
Announces
Agreement
with
Bedrock
• This Coup Against Canadian Rights
Will Not
Pass!
• Rights and
Exceptional Circumstances
Workers and Community
Oppose Port Closure in Churchill, Manitoba
• "This is a Fight About Communities
Being Able
to Guide Their Own Future"
- Interview, Marianne Hladun,
Regional Vice-President for the Prairies, Public Service Alliance of
Canada
Federal Public Service
Workers Hold Day of Action
• Rally at Prime Minister's Office
Denounces
Government's Intransigence
November 10, 2016
Restructuring of U.S. Steel
• Moving Stelco Pensions Off the
Balance Sheet
• Imperialist Democracy In Action -
Rolf
Gerstenberger
Quebec Government
Passes Bill 110 to Restructure Labour Relations in the Municipal Sector
• Couillard Coup Against Workers'
Rights
• Liberal Government's Anti-Worker
Bill
• Quebec Municipalities Criticize
Bill 110
• Clash of Rights, Clash of
Democracies -
Pierre
Chénier
Quebec Health Care
Workers Oppose the Anti-Social Offensive
• Paramedics Demand Working
Conditions
Commensurate With the Work They Do -
Interview, Jean Gagnon, Confederation of National Trade
Unions
November 17, 2016
Truckers
Fight
for
Rights
and
Dignity
• Rally at Quebec National Assembly
• Smash the Silence on Truckers'
Living and
Working Conditions!
- Normand
Chouinard
Steelworkers Defend
their Pensions and Fight for Pensions for All
• The Importance of Having
Defined-Benefit
Pensions on the Balance Sheet
- K.C. Adams
• Trudeau Government Legislation
Introduces
"Target Benefit Pensions"
Attacks on Pulp and
Paper Workers in Manitoba
• This Has to Stop!
Fight for Mining
Safety
• Companies' Criminal Negligence in
the
Workplace - Interview, Mike Bond, United Steelworkers Local
6500,
Vale, Sudbury
Opposition to
Neo-Liberal Free Trade Agreements
• Vancouver Maritime Workers and
Allies Rally
Against Free Trade Agreement with European Union
• St. Catharine's Protest Against
Trans-Pacific
Partnership
November 24, 2016
BC Government
Forced to Increase Investment in Public Education
• Teachers' Resistance Results in
Reinstatement
of Negotiated Contract
• Battle for Control of the Education
System
• Teachers' Defence of Collective
Agreement
• Government Response to Supreme
Court
Ruling
Quebec Truckers Affirm
Their Dignity and Rights
• Convoy of Hundreds of Trucks
Converges on
National Assembly
Interviews
• Rio Tinto Workers in Alma, Quebec
-
Alexandre Fréchette, President, Syndicat des travailleurs de
l'aluminium d'Alma
• Lafarge Cement Workers in
Saint-Constant,
Quebec - François Cardinal, Vice-President,
Steelworkers Local 6658
ArcelorMittal Steel
Mill in Indiana
• Company Must Be Held Responsible
for Contract
Worker's Death
November 28, 2016
31st Constitutional Congress of the
Quebec Federation of Labour
• The Difficult Situation Facing the
FTQ
• Discussion on the Theme of the
Congress
DECEMBER 2016
December 1, 2016
Stepping Up the
Fight for the Rights of All!
• Stelco Steelworkers and Retirees
Demand
Justice Not CCAA Injustice!
• Secret Stelco CCAA Negotiations
Extended into
2017
• Steelworkers Hold Hands Off Our
Pensions
Rally
• Hamiltonians Commemorate 110th
Anniversary of
Their Transit Strike
• Blue Water Bridge Workers on Strike
in
Ontario
•
Montreal Blue Collar Workers Announce Plans for Class Action if City
Suspends Indexation of Retirees' Pensions
• The Labour Relations Code Is the
Right Choice
for Alberta's Academic Workers -
Dougal MacDonald
December 8, 2016
Resistance of Teachers and Education
Workers in Nova Scotia
• All Out to Defeat the Vicious
Anti-Social
Offensive Which Targets Teachers,
Education Workers and Public Education - Mira Katz
• Government Forced to Back
Down
• Background
Quebec Federation of
Labour Holds Triennial Convention in Montreal
• Delegates Speak Passionately in
Favour of
Campaigns that
Defend the Rights of All
Interviews
• Montreal Blue Collar Workers -
Chantal
Racette
• Early Childhood Education Workers
-
Sonia Charette
• The Fight Against Inferior Working
Conditions
for Young Workers - Vincent Barrette
Sale
of
Seniors'
Care
Facilities
• No to Foreign Ownership of Seniors'
Care! Yes
to Public Control and Modern Seniors' Care!
• The Clash of Rights
December 15, 2016
Bedrock Proposal to Take Control of
Stelco
• Stelco Steelworkers and Retirees Face Morton's Fork
Defend the Dignity of
Unemployed Workers
• Calls Intensify to Repeal Harper's
Changes to
Employment Insurance
Ontario Injured
Workers' Rally
• Demands for Compensation System to
Be
Investigated
• Workplace Injuries Among Healthcare
Workers
Opposition to
Saskatchewan Government's Anti-Social Measures
• Workers Condemn Austerity Agenda
Manitoba Government's
Austerity Agenda
• No to Attacks on Public Sector
Workers and
Public Services!
• Throne Speech Outlines Attack on
Workers'
Rights
• Pallister Government's Anti-Labour
Legislation
• Readers Note
