BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G continue to win broad support in their strike against Milk-Bone in Buffalo, New York. The workers walked out Oct. 28 after the company, owned…
MONTREAL — After Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon Dec. 13 called on the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to order back to work the 55,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members on strike, the union denounced “this assault on our constitutionally protected…
MONTREAL — Over 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on a nationwide strike Nov. 15, standing up against employer plans to introduce part-time weekend positions at lower pay and second-rate benefits. Mediated negotiations between Canada…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Workers at Milk-Bone are winning broad support as their six-week strike continues. The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G walked out Oct. 28 in a fight for solid wage increases and…
MONTREAL — Bosses at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, a major hotel here, locked out its 600 unionized workers without warning Nov. 20. The workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), had voted by over 90% to reject…
MONTREAL — Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) members at Prelco’s Montreal window-glass production plant voted by 96% to accept the company’s offer of a 21.5% raise Nov. 17. The new contract runs through September 2029. “At first, the company…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Starbucks Workers United union members and their supporters held a “practice picket” Dec. 7 outside a Starbucks store here demanding bosses finally sign a contract. Pickets shouted, “No contract, no coffee” and “What’s disgusting? Union busting,”…
BOSTON — Striking teachers in three North Shore cities are back at work, ending two and half weeks of walkouts involving over 1,400 workers. Substantial gains were won in pay and parental leave by the three unions. To do so,…
SAN FRANCISCO — While new, improved contracts have been won this fall by striking hotel workers across the country, here they are still on strike. Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt bosses are playing hardball, demanding an inferior medical plan for new…
LOS ANGELES — “It’s been two years without a contract. We’ve met with the company twice but they won’t give us what we deserve,” Gary Duplesses, a cook at Flying Food Group, organized by UNITE HERE Local 11 here, told…
