How does Walmart stay a non-union shop?  The trade union movement says the company threatens their workers with plant closures and Walmart says the “workers paradise” they rule over is so great, their “associates” don’t want a union representing them. Jason Easley, writing in the progressive publication “Politicus USA” pops that myth, complete with Walmart

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Our railways are sick and dangerous to the communities they pass through.  They came to this by way of short-sighted policy decisions in Ottawa and mismanagement in the corporate board rooms.  Greg Gormick, a transportation writer and author of the report Revitalizing New Brunswick’s Rail sector makes his case in an op-ed carried in the

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The Free Press has an op-ed piece in it, penned by Jerry Diaz, President of UNIFOR, the new union formed by the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers union and the Communications Energy and Paperworkers union. In it, Brother Diaz makes the case by quoting the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and outlines the

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Hundreds of Canadian Union of Postal Workers members and their supporters rallied in front of the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday January 25, 2014 in high spirits, in spite of the frigid temperatures. They were there to tell Canada Post and the Harper Conservatives that they are wrong to cut home delivery service to 5 million

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Thousands of people are expected to gather in Ottawa from August 21-24, 2014 for the upcoming People’s Social Forum. Manitoba activists have a key role to play in this significant political moment that will bring social movements together from coast to coast. The goal of the Peoples Social Forum is to build a united and

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