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"We are very disappointed these talks have failed," said Darryl Walker, BCGEU/NUPGE president. "We have been at the bargaining table with the employer for over 18 months where the issues have been debated extensively."
This show of solidarity will be held on Saturday, April 2 at 2 pm at the Peace Arch Park on the Canada-US border.
“How can the government identify Children’s Aid as a source of savings at a time when programs for abused and neglected children need a major infusion of cash just to keep afloat?” - Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU president.
'We Are One' events to take place across the U.S. on April 4, the 43rd anniversary of the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after speaking in Memphis, Tennessee on behalf of striking black sanitation workers.
The speech entitled “Tax cuts, political ideology and corporate profit: Who’s footing the bill” will examine the current economic situation in Canada.
The provincial crown corporation was able to reduce the debt owing on its wind farms by $10 million, said the PEI Minister of Environment, Energy and Forestry.
NUPGE endorses Earth Hour for the forth consecutive year. Last year, in Canada alone, more than 10 million people, in more than 288 cities, turned off their lights!
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty did not directly refer the environment or climate change in his budget speech. “Canadians understand that the interests of the economy and environment are interlinked, why doesn’t the Canadian government?” says Dorothy McDougall from KAIROS.
Racialized workers are under-represented in public administration and are more likely to work in the hard-hit light manufacturing sector.
QPP contributions will increase while workers who retire before age 65 will have their QPP benefits further reduced
"As a mechanism for addressing the deficiencies in Canada’s retirement income system, PRPPs are greatly inferior to an expanded CPP."
The event is organized as part of the 100-day campaign ‘Racism Free Ontario’, launched by the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians in order to raise awareness of racism in Ontario.
“Restricting fundamental collective bargaining rights of transit workers just to appease the new anti-union administration at Toronto city hall is a slap in the face to all unions in Ontario and across Canada." - James Clancy, NUPGE national president
