MONTREAL — The 530 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at Rolls-Royce Canada, who repair and overhaul aircraft engines, decided by a vote of 62% Sept. 1 to accept a conciliator’s report and end their hard-fought five-and-a-half-month…
TORONTO — Over 1,500 dump truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area ended their six-week strike May 1, when they reached agreement with area bosses to set a standard hourly rate of 120 Canadian dollars ($93) an hour for bulk…
TORONTO — A tribute was held here April 17 to Reza Baraheni, a leader of the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran and one of its most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics. Baraheni died in March at…
MONTREAL — “We’ll stay out as long as we need to,” to force the excavation bosses to sign a contract, Jasvir Dhaliwal told the Militant April 16. Some 1,500 truck drivers who have been out on strike in the Greater…
BRAMPTON, Ontario — A successful two-week strike in March by some 1,000 aggregate truck drivers in the Greater Toronto area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, shut down quarries and much of the construction industry.…
MILTON, Ontario — Truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, won a 20% rate increase from trucking bosses after a two-week strike that closed quarries and shut down much…
MONTREAL — “More and more corporations are trying to break unions and workers’ rights everywhere are being attacked,” Tom Larin, a striking inspector at Rolls-Royce’s aircraft engine maintenance plant here, told the Militant. “You see it globally, including in Canada,…
MONTREAL — Some 530 Rolls-Royce aircraft engine maintenance workers here, members of the Quebec Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), set up strike picket lines March 15. Several strikers told the Militant that the company had locked them out while…
MONTREAL — “The sweeping police operation carried out under the anti-working-class Emergencies Act against the three-week protest in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, by truckers and others opposed to vaccine mandates is an assault on the political rights of all working people,”…
MONTREAL — “The Feb. 14 imposition of the Emergencies Act by the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is a major attack on the democratic and political rights of working people,” Philippe Tessier said in a statement released by the Communist…
