TORONTO – The Broadbent Institute has announced that United Steelworkers International President Emeritus Leo W. Gerard is the recipient of the 2019 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize. The Wood Prize, awarded annually in honour of the late, internationally renowned scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood, recognizes the outstanding contributions of an academic, labour activist or writer. Leo Gerard’s […]
Today, 10 Ontario unions representing more than 250,000 affected broader public sector employees, announced their intention to launch a coordinated Charter challenge against Bill 124. As well, the Ontario Labour movement, with the Power of Many, will be initiating an aggressive campaign to repeal Bill 124. The joint Charter challenge announced today is being brought by […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes improvements in the revised Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) announced today, but raises concern over the impact on Canadian aluminum and steel workers. “We’re encouraged that the revised CUSMA appears to include some improvements to the previous version of the trade deal, including provisions on labour rights, environmental protections and […]
MONTREAL – A woman working as a traffic control person on a road construction project was killed on the job yesterday in Montérégie, marking the third such workplace death in Quebec in the last two months. Last week, a member of Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers (USW) Local 8922 was killed on the job in the […]
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