Wal-Mart’s continued campaign of punishing workers who exercise their fundamental and constitutional right to join a union has raised its ugly head yet again. This time, Wal-Mart has announced it…
The Ontario government appears ready to enact a new Apology Act. This curious little bit of legislation is intended to encourage people to say sorry for misdeeds without fear that…
Thanks to our friends at the American Workplace Prof Blog for this story about an interesting strike in West Virginia. Apparently, the unionized workers all stayed home for a day…
The Windsor faculty strike and VIVA transit strike linger on. I couldn’t help but notice the hostile tone of the ‘comments’ to the stories in the media, posted by the…
We noted last week that the VIVA bus drivers were in legal position to strike. It looked briefly like a last minute deal would avert a strike, but the drivers…
So the TTC has announced its intention to introduce drug-testing for employees, but it backed off significantly from its earlier threat to use random drug testing, a process that raises…
As noted yesterday, the professors at the U. of Windsor have taken to the picked lines, effectively shutting down the university. The union seems well prepared for this strike. Professors…
Did you catch the editorial comment by John Mortimer in the National Post over the Labour Day weekend? Mortimer is the head of a business lobby group dedicated to abolishing…
The Steelworkers’ attempt (see earlier posting) to organize a Magna facility, Formet Industries in St. Thomas has failed in convincing fashion. The result of the vote was 717 against unionization and…
I noted in a previous entry that reforms were underway in Saskatchewan as the Saskatchewan Party followed in the footsteps of Mike Harris’s Conservative government in Ontario and Gordon Campbell’s…
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