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This is a group for all those who participated in the first-ever LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on 9-11 July 2010.  Use this group to share...

LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference 2010

48 days ago

...isting of personal experiences with the various boards. I would like to pilot this project and aim it towards one board first, that being WSIB in Ontario, the one I have the most expe...

Unraveling Worker's Compensation In Canada- Injury and Injustice

406 days ago

Ontario Funding

...be an expert on the funding of universities. This is being cross-posted in related groups. There are some terminologies used in the Province of Ontario that keep arising in discussi...

567 days ago

Links of Interest to the Left

Unions Global Unions Canadian Union of Public Employees CUPE > New Brunswick USW Canada: District 6 - Ontario & Atlantic Canada Canadian Union of Postal Worker...

577 days ago

They'll be time enough for counting...

...the day, I stood on the same spot at Queen’s Park railing at the Ontario Hydro building across the str...ning. I eventually reached Bloor Street and from in front of the Royal Ontario Museum a couple of cops ran d...

26 days ago

Talking Stolen Pension Blues

...of the employer (Dominion Stores Ltd.). The Dominion Union complained, a public outcry ensued, and the case went to court. The Supreme Court of Ontario eventually ruled against the...

102 days ago

Online Activists Gather From Around Globe to Jumpstart Labor Movement- Stuart Elliot

...mprehend its potential until I attended the first public LabourStart conference at McMaster University's School of Labour Studies in Hamilton, Ontario.

53 days ago

LabourStart and the fight for a new labour internationalism

Eric @ LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference, 9-11 July 2010McMaster University School of Labour StudiesHamilton, Ontario, Canada

54 days ago

"Solidarity Forever", as sung at the closing plenary at the LabourStart Conference in Hamilton, Ontario - http://bit.ly/cpbLhe

54 days ago

Hamilton, Ontario is very hot and very humid, just like Washington DC was last summer. Next year, we do our conference somewhere COOL.

60 days ago

CAW-Canada Submission Bill 152

CAW-Canada Submission to the Ontario Standing Committee on Social Affairs Bill 152, an Act Respecting a Long-Term Strategy to Reduce Poverty in Ontario

502 days ago

Employed by Bell Technical Solutions as an installation and repair technician for phone, DSL (Internet), and WiMax (Wireless Internet via microwave).  Work out of Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada but main area of work is western Niagara (Welland, Dunnville, Wainfleet, Cayuga). I am on...

56 days ago ()

GDC Local 6 has two active campaigns: 1. Raising funds to pay the legal defense bills of Ottawa Panhandlers Union organizer, Andrew Nellis. http://ottawaiww.org/?page_id=254 2. Getting IWW member Denis Rancourt his job back after being fired by the University of Ottawa. http://rancourt.academic...

yesterday (Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Comment on "ITUC Video - Lack of maternity protection at work"

...tep is to get pregnancy and parental leave coverage and salary top-up for the full duration of the leave (currently set in statute as 52 weeks in Ontario). And while there is legisla...

547 days ago

Comment on "wage slavery"

...their "off" times in case the phone rings and they must respond to some "crisis". To refuse to be available could be grounds for termination. In Ontario the legislation that prevails...

504 days ago