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PSAC strikers outside a CRA office in Surrey, British Columbia. On April 7, the CRA bargaining group voted to enter a legal strike position. [21] On April 12, the national president of PSAC, Chris Aylward, announced that the Treasury Board bargaining unit had voted overwhelmingly in favour of entering into a legal strike position, thus granting the group a 60-day window to initiate a labour ...
At midnight, on 9 September 1991, 110 000 federal public sector workers walked off the job, launching the strike. 45 000 federal public sector workers who were members of PSAC had been blocked from joining, being designated essential workers by the government. [3] The workers in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the first time zone to go ...
Strike pay is a payment made by a trade union to workers who are on strike to help in meeting their basic needs while on strike, often out of a special reserve known as a strike fund. Union workers reason that the availability of strike pay increases their leverage at the bargaining table and actually decreases the probability of a strike ...
1938 – Bloody Sunday, culmination of the sit downer strike in Vancouver (unemployed workers' protests) 1938 - Blubber Bay (Texada Island, BC) strike. Workers belonging to recently founded International Woodworkers of America (IWA). Local union leader William Gardner died after receiving savage beating and kicking from BC provincial policeman ...
CUPE–SCFP is the largest union in Canada, representing some 700,000 workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines. Over 60 per cent of CUPE–SCFP's members are women, and almost a third are part-time workers.
The Economic Roundtable report documented a sharp drop in real wages for Southern California Kroger workers since 1990, when the highest-paid food clerks earned $13.65 an hour, the equivalent of ...
The 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (also known as the 2009 Toronto strike) was a legal strike action that was undertaken by the Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416 and CUPE Local 79, two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the city of Toronto. It involved approximately 24,000 city employees. [1]
Amazon workers on six continents planned strikes and protests lasting through Cyber Monday. Strikes were expected in more than 20 countries including the U.S., Germany, India and Japan.