Graduate Assistantships are remuneration for graduate students who are engaged in research and/or field development oriented projects contributing to their academic and professional development. Gas are unionized positions represented by CUPE 3907 (Rm 8-104). At OISE there are 45 GA awards available during the September-April academic year to students outside of the Graduate Funded cohort. [...]

July 29, 2010 Final wage rates for the facilities subsector Rehabilitation Assistant, Program Coordinator I (formerly Activity Worker III) and Program Coordinator II (formerly Activity Worker IV) benchmarks have been determined by classification arbitrator John Kinzie. Language and wage rate changes were negotiated during the “Page 209” benchmark series review in 2008 and 2009 for [...]

This past June a study was released by the Commonwealth Fund – a US organization that promotes evidence-based quality health care there – that compared the American health care system with that of six other nations, including Canada. Not surprisingly, it ranked the United States last or close to last in almost every category.

Steve Nasby and Jyalmen Sidhho of ILWU Canada together with Mark Keserich of ILWU Local 500 represented the Longshoremen at Local 40′s rally on Thursday July 22nd at 5pm in front of the Hyatt, downtown Vancouver.  The hotel workers’ local was speaking out against the unfair working conditions and practices that the multibillion dollar corporation [...]

At about 11:00 am EST this morning, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the right to water and sanitation. The resolution passed overwhelmingly. The unofficial vote count was 124 yes, 42 abstentions, 0 no. Canada abstained. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow, Blue Planet Project organizer Anil Naidoo, and national water campaigner Meera Karunananthan were at the General Assembly session for the historic vote. More on this to come shortly. For more...

Read this report on the CHAN website at: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/node/498 WASHINGTON DC–Today, Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Loune Viaud, [...]

Attention all fishermen!  The Prince Rupert 100 Year Celebration is coming up in September and due to the area’s phenomenal fishing, we are holding a fishing derby!  On Sunday September 5th at 6:00am the boats will be taking off from the Rushbrook Floats.  If you are interested in joining the crew call Steve Nasby at [...]

Thanks to those who came out to the General meeting last night.  To those of you who couldn’t be there, you missed out on some nice door prizes.  The quorum was met and fun was had by all.  See you in September.

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http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/839991–caribana-a-victim-of-cultural-racism Published On Mon Jul 26 2010 Re: Caribana to dazzle, on a budget, July 19 It is very unsettling, yet not unexpected, that Caribana is being treated like a cultural outsider and a barbarian at the gate by the different levels of government. Why is it that the largest festival in this country with [...]

The   B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 395 July 23, 2010 One Day Longer? The Vale-Inco Strike Comes to a Close Scott Neigh On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favour of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining [...]

The Union leader who busted the "agents provocateurs" operation at the Montebello summit has taken new steps to unmask the men who gave the orders. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) will argue a motion Monday, July 26, 2010, to give union president Dave Coles standing at the Quebec Police Ethics Committee. The Committee is investigating the police operation at the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" summit at Montebello, Québec in 2007. During the SPP summit, Coles...

In a statement released by ILWU Canada President, Tom Dufresne, the Maritime Employers Association was urged to end its lockout and get back to negotiations with the unions. “The ILWU Canada is calling upon the Maritime Employers Association to immediately end its reckless lockout of employees who work at the port of Montreal. Customers of [...]

Last Wednesday, July 14th, Locals 500 & 502 had a joint meeting.  Below is a video briefing the content of the meeting, speeches made by Chad O’Neill, Mark Keserich and President of ILWU Canada, Tom Dufresne.  Also, presentations were made to John Jacobs and Fil Briglio for their brave efforts pertaining to the death of [...]

Longshoremen working at the Port of Montreal have entered their 3rd day of lockout.  A spokesperson for the employers’ group has said that they are ready to get this issue solved. For more on this story click here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/07/21/montreal-port-lockout.html

The news industry is at once shrinking yet expanding...but in the expansion, there's a catch. The expansion is in online news...where everything is about speed, hits and the need to constantly update -- not necessarily inform. This piece in the New York Times is an excellent warning about the effect this is having on media workers -- early burnout. Reporters are being measured by simple output -- which is assessed by "most viewed" lists on home pages. Pay is based on how many readers...

What the Federal Government must have perceived as a relatively minor policy change has developed over the last week or so into a much more significant political issue.

The tragic death of a waterside worker at Appleton Dock has spawned yet another urgent plea by the MUA for legislative action in order to combat the lack of safety on the job. Click below for the MUA Media Release on the topic: MUA Media Release – Death at the Docks

900 Longshoremen have been locked out today after the Maritime Employers Association claimed there was a need to counter workers pressure tactics. Workers at the port have not had a contract since December of 2008. For the full story click on the link below: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100719/montreal-port-lockout-100719/

International Union of Operating Engineers is supporting CUPE in the disparance of Lyle and Marie McCann. We are urging our members to support the seach for Lyle and Marie McCann, family members of a Cupe 30 member who have been missing since July 3. The elderly couple disappeared on the road between St. Albert, Albert [...]