SHERBROOKE, Que. – The growth in precarious employment and a huge expansion of the federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) are at the top of the agenda for 500 members of the United Steelworkers union (Syndicat des Métallos) from across Quebec who are gathering this week in Sherbrooke for their 59th annual conference. The three-day […]
Partners at the Fairway Plaza Starbucks location in Kitchener, Ont., are the newest employees to vote yes to joining the United Steelworkers union
Frédérique Martineau, a dedicated Starbucks partner and shift supervisor for almost five years, was fired due to her outspoken support for unionization among Starbucks workers, according to Starbucks management. Martineau, who had recently been transferred to the 16th and MacDonald Street store after the closure of the unionized Dunbar Starbucks, expressed her disappointment and sense […]
On behalf of four local unions of the United Steelworkers union (USW), representing over 4,000 Teck employees in British Columbia, USW Western Canada Director Scott Lunny reserved the union’s support for the proposed sale of Teck’s steelmaking coal operations (Elk Valley Resources) to Glencore plc, a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company. “While we […]
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