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Workers’ rights
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Parliament’s Back. Your Right to Strike May Not Be.
One Win, and Now the Rewrite: Don’t Watch Their Lips; Watch Their Hands As Parliament returns to Ottawa, every worker in this country should be watching. Big changes to the Canada Labour Code are…
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Workers Built This Province. The Legislature Should Act Like It.
Labour Day is more than the last long weekend of summer. It was won by workers who marched, who struck, and sometimes went to jail for things we now take for granted. Things like…
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The 10% Shift: Keeping More $$$ in Nova Scotia
Thirteen years ago, I led a campaign called the 10% Shift when I was president of CUPE Nova Scotia. The idea was simple: you do not have to spend more money. Just shift where…
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The Bank of Canada Is Not Above the Law
Forty-nine Bank of Canada security workers are on strike. Ottawa must enforce its anti-scab law and make sure the Bank follows it.
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Nova Scotia’s Labour Legacy
Nova Scotia’s labour history is really a story about ordinary people refusing to accept that poverty, danger, and arbitrary and unfair treatment are part of the job. From the Halifax tradespeople to Cape Breton…
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This Natal Day weekend, many Nova Scotia workers will be working, or losing a day’s pay, because our Labour Standards leave them behind.
Is it really a long weekend for everyone? Nope. Nova Scotia politicians like to say our province is a good place to live and work; maybe that’s true for them, but not everyone feels…
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The Bill (148) Is Due: Houston owns the mess as much as his predecessor does
Premier Tim Houston stood in Wolfville this week and told a room full of business people the deficit might hit $2 billion. He sounded like a man who just found out the credit card…
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Canada’s Anti-Scab Law Still Has a Scab Problem.
Last summer, about 25 Rogers technicians in Abbotsford, B.C., stood on a picket line for something that should never have been controversial: equal pay for equal work. They were not asking for luxury. They…