Job action by SkyTrain employees will begin on Tuesday morning with a full withdrawal of services, CUPE 7000 President Tony Rebelo said today. CUPE 7000 issued 72-hour strike notice Sunday after four days of mediated talks with the BC Rapid Transit...
CUPE is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to restore federal health funding increases through the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) to 2016 levels. CUPE warns that current funding levels aren’t rising fast enough to meet growing health care needs and costs, never...
Today’s media coverage of the labour dispute between CUPE 7000 and the BCRTC (SkyTrain) included interviews with a TransLink spokesperson, whose inaccurate statements and incendiary language directed at the union, do nothing to move the parties closer to a collective agreement....
The second week of COP25 started today; and the year 2019 quickly draws to a close. Time, I have noticed, seems to make less and less sense as I get older.Despite the pessimism that I often display, it cannot be...
On Friday, a protest march demanding climate action was organized in Madrid. Trade unions took an active part in it. The organizers, Ecologistas en Acción, claimed more that 500,000 people participated. Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who launched the...
The recently published Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have led education unions to reflect on school systems and the future of education. In Germany, the United Kingdom (UK), Spain, and Australia, education unions have highlighted their main takeaways...
Thursday of Week 1 means that most technical papers have been presented at the various working groups, and serious negotiations are beginning. To recap, the importance of COP25 is that the initial 5-year commitments under the Paris Agreement will be...
On 4 December 2,500 workers of thyssenkrupp Elevator rallied in Essen, Germany, at the group headquarters, demanding a clear strategy and job guarantees. Just one day before, on 3 December, about 6,000 steelworkers staged their rally in Duisburg, also Germany....
Union members also launched indefinite protests in nuclear towns across the Ukraine. Protestors have set up tents, where nuclear workers will protest after work until the government engages in a genuine dialogue over their intentions on the future of Ukrainian...
At the trade union morning caucus meeting, delegates heard an impassioned speech about what is going on in Chile. The speaker described how Chile’s past history of military dictatorship is returning to haunt the country, saying “the sons of Pinochet”...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.