Dockworkers vote on contract as gov’t threatens intervention

Vol. 87/No. 29 - August 7, 2023
International Longshore and Warehouse Canada picket line in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 1. Workers are demanding wage increase to cover inflation, job protection.

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…


Canada ILWU dockers set new strike deadline

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

MONTREAL — Some 7,400 longshore workers on Canada’s West Coast docks, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada, were set to go back on strike July 19, after the union’s leadership rejected a tentative deal that had ended…


Casino workers in Quebec on strike for higher wages

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

MONTREAL — Some 1,700 workers at four casinos and gaming halls owned by the government corporation Lotto Quebec have been on strike since June 23 across the province. The strikers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), work…


Steelworkers strike over wages, workers’ deaths in Ontario

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

HAMILTON, Ontario — Some 1,450 members of United Steelworkers Local 7135 went on strike here June 29 against National Steel Car, a major railroad freight car manufacturer in Canada. A wage increase that covers inflation and the dangerous working conditions…


Granville Island Brewery workers strike for higher pay

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — “We need a living wage to be able to afford to live in Vancouver and work here,” Aaron Nakonechny, Service Employees International Union Local 300 member and shop steward, told the Militant on the picket line…


Canadian longshore workers fight for raise, job protection

Bosses look to Ottawa to ban Pacific Coast strike
Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Striking ILWU dockworkers rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 9, drawing widespread solidarity. Support has come from UNITE HERE Local 40 members on strike at Sheridan Hotel at the airport, and from dockworkers’ unions in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 2,000 International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada dock and warehouse workers and supporters rallied downtown here July 9 in a show of strength and solidarity for their strike. The strike by 7,400 union members has…


Quebec teachers rally for better working conditions and pay

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023

MONTREAL — Over 5,000 teachers from all over Quebec marched down Grande Allee in Quebec City June 10. They rallied in front of the National Assembly, demanding better working conditions and higher pay to keep up with inflation. The government…


Canada longshore union strikes over jobs, work conditions

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023

MONTREAL — Some 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada set up picket lines, halting maritime traffic at over 30 ports on Canada’s west coast July 1. Bosses are demanding the government intervene and impose back-to-work legislation…


Owens-Illinois strikers in Quebec hit insulting pay offer

Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023
March in Montreal June 16 by supporters, United Steelworkers members on strike against Owens-Illinois plant there. Strikers are demanding a wage raise that keeps up with inflation.

MONTREAL — “Enough of being walked over, now we shall walk to them,” Eric Dumas, president of United Steelworkers Local 206-G, told 150 strikers and supporters June 16 before they set out on a march through the neighborhood of Pointe-St-Charles…


CL campaign: ‘For solidarity with union battles today’

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Félix Vincent Ardea, Communist League candidate in Montreal, speaks at June 12 candidates’ debate. “Our campaign aims to help strengthen unions, struggles of workers, farmers,” he said.

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…