MONTREAL — Under threats by the federal government in Ottawa to consider “all options” to force an end to a strike by 7,400 British Columbia dockworkers at West Coast port facilities, the International Longshore and Warehouse Canada union’s Contract Caucus…
MONTREAL — “Another Lac-Mégantic can happen at any moment anywhere in the country,” Christopher Monette, Teamsters Canada director of public affairs, told the Montreal daily Le Devoir for its July 6 edition. July 6 was the 10th anniversary of the…
MONTREAL — On June 16 Communist League candidate Félix Vincent Ardea, a Canadian National Railway freight conductor and Teamsters union member, and other CN Teamster members joined a 150-strong solidarity march of strikers and supporters of the 330 United Steelworkers…
MONTREAL — “Defense of the rights of immigrant workers is a crucial question for our unions and all working people. What is at stake is the fighting unity of the working class against the deepening attacks by the employers and…
MONTREAL — A 12-day nationwide strike by 120,000 federal government workers ended May 1 with a tentative agreement between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government. Wage increases were the overriding issue in the strike. Workers will vote…
MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…
MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in the March 13 provincial by-election in the Montreal electoral constituency of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, brought her fighting working-class program to some 65 people at a candidates’ debate Feb. 28, sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri…
MONTREAL — Six weeks of mandatory public hearings on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government imposition of the never-before-used Emergencies Act concluded Nov. 25. The act aimed to crush the three-week-long truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa and at border-crossing…
MONTREAL — The Canadian Union of Public Employees continues to mobilize and gain widespread solidarity in the fight to win significant wage raises for its 55,000 members working in public education support jobs in Ontario and set an example of…
MONTREAL — Last February the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented the draconian Emergencies Act to suppress the “Freedom Convoy” of hundreds of truckers and supporters who gathered to protest in Canada’s capital. The federal Public Order Emergency Commission…
