MONTREAL — The Communist League candidates in the Oct. 3 Quebec provincial elections — Katy LeRougetel and Félix Vincent Ardea — are winning a hearing from working people who are looking for a road forward in the face of today’s…
MONTREAL — The Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by beefing up its military forces. The rulers demand working people “sacrifice” for the war as they step up attacks on wages, conditions…
BURNABY, British Columbia — “Ten months on the picket line is too long!” UNITE HERE Local 40 member Lisa Secretaria told 40 locked-out workers at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown Hotel here Feb. 14. It’s a favorite destination for weddings in…
MONTREAL — Some 2,000 workers at a score of hotels organized by the CSN (Federation of National Trade Unions) held a one-day strike in Quebec Sept. 17. Three big rallies took place here, in Quebec City and in Sherbrooke. “On…
MONTREAL — After a monthlong strike against ArcelorMittal, 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail and office workers in Port-Cartier and Fermont on Quebec’s North Shore, members of five United Steelworkers union locals, overwhelmingly ratified a new contract June 8.…
MONTREAL — More than 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail and office workers in Port-Cartier and Fermont, Quebec, members of the United Steelworkers union, have been on strike against ArcelorMittal since May 10. The strike has important implications for…
PORT-CARTIER, Quebec — More than 2,500 iron ore miners, processing, rail and office workers here and in Fermont, members of United Steelworkers Locals 5778, 6869, 8664, 7401 and 7401-FP, have been on strike against ArcelorMittal since May 10. The company…
SEPT-ILES, Quebec — Teachers, joined by staff members and students, picketed in front of the CEGEP school here on Quebec’s North Shore May 13. “An urgent need to act; public services to rebuild,” read the picket sign of one striker.…
PORT-CARTIER, Quebec — After rejecting ArcelorMittal’s “final” offer, 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail, and office workers here and in Fermont went on strike May 10. “The stakes in our strike include wages, medical premiums, the retirement fund and working…
VALLEE-JONCTION, Quebec — After bosses refused to respond to the union’s April 19 proposal for wage increases, and then refused to show up for a scheduled negotiating session, more than 1,000 unionized meatpackers at Olymel’s large pork slaughtering plant walked…
