This year has been a year of tragedies for many in the world, from missing planes and sinking ferries, to armed civil unrest and schoolgirl abductions. But closer to home, 2014 marks an important anniversary in the lives of Canadians both young and old. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre in which 14 women were killed at École Polytechnique in Quebec. The reason for this brutal attack: a man “fighting feminism” and seeking revenge for the women he believed ruined his life.
TORONTO, Dec. 3, 2014 /CNW/ - Unifor, which represents thousands of cab drivers in Ontario, welcomes a private member's bill introduced in the Legislature this afternoon to address the issue of app-based bandit cabs in the province.
REGINA, Dec. 3, 2014 /CNW/ - IT support services for several large corporations and government agencies across Western Canada could be disrupted if a deal is not reached during bargaining this month at ISM Canada. More than 300 Unifor Local 911 members could take legal job action if massive concessions are not withdrawn by the IBM-owned company.
TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2014 /CNW/ - Unifor is pleased that calls from the union and Fort Frances community to protect a pulp mill currently owned by Resolute have been heard.
After discussion between Resolute, the Wynne government and Unifor, Resolute has announced that it will be heating the closed mill over the winter in order to protect the equipment in the mill.
“BC’s workers have a strong ally in Irene Lanzinger. She will be a terrific leader for our movement to create and protect good jobs and make work safer,” said Joie Warnock, Unifor’s Western Director.
Working people understand that we do not live in a fair society and that this lack of fairness extends into our workplaces. Discrimination based on disabilities is a daily reality and we have a responsibility to confront it.
Our communities and our workplaces are designed with a fictitious “normal person” in mind as if having a disability weren’t in fact, normal.
According to survey results released by the labour movement and Western University's Faculty of Education today, domestic violence is widespread in Canada and its effects are following people to work.
LONDON, ON, Nov. 27, 2014 /CNW/ - According to survey results released by the labour movement and Western University's Faculty of Education today, domestic violence is widespread in Canada and its effects are following people to work.
LONDON, ON, Nov. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Findings of a ground-breaking year-long survey about the prevalence of domestic violence and its impact in the workplace are being released on Thursday at 10 a.m. at two simultaneous press conferences in Ottawa and at Western University in London, Ontario.
LONDON, ON, Nov. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Findings of a ground-breaking year-long survey about the prevalence of domestic violence and its impact in the workplace are being released on Thursday at 10 a.m. at two simultaneous press conferences in Ottawa and at Western University in London, Ontario.
OTTAWA, Nov. 23, 2014 /CNW/ - Unifor has reached and ratified a new deal with RA Centre, approved by RA workers by 96 per cent. Unifor Local 4270 represents the 35 unionized staff members at the RA Centre who met this afternoon to review the details of the new contract.
On December 6, 2014, Unifor recognizes the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. We remember all women who have died as a result of gender-based violence. We remember the 14 women who were singled out and murdered on this day 25 years ago - 14 engineering students murdered solely because they were women: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
OTTAWA, Nov. 20, 2014 /CNW/ - RA workers will be leafleting outside of the centre's annual general meeting as of 6:30 tonight. RA workers will be asking centre members to pose key questions around labour relations during the course of the meeting.
The picket starts as 6:30 p.m. and the annual general meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.
