Description: United Church ministers and other church workers are forming a union to seek better job security and combat bullying and overwork. Source: The Toronto Star Date: 01/21/2014 Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/21/united_church_of_canada_clergy_form_their_own_union.html Related links: The United Church of Canada Unifaith Unifor CBC story Windsor Star story Questions for discussion: What is “precarious work”? Can you think of… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Unifor
Unifor seeks to unionize Toyota Canada
Description: Organizing Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. in 2014 is a key priority for Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union. Source: Financial Post Date: 12/18/2013 Link: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/12/18/toyota-canada-union-vote/ Related links: Globe and Mail story Windsor Star blog Canadian auto plants have cost advantage Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. Unifor Previous update Questions for discussion: Why… Read more »
Unifor leader says it’s time to ‘stop playing defence’
Description: Jerry Dias, the new leader of Unifor, says it is time for unions to go on the offensive. He promises to spend 10 per cent of the newly merged union’s revenues on organizing and increasing membership. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: 08/31/2013 Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/newly-elected-unifor-leader-says-he-is-taking-labour-movement-on-the-offensive/article14063604/ Related links: Unifor Canadian Press story Globe story on… Read more »
Steelworkers, TWU to merge
Description: The United Steelworkers union, which represents 225,000 Canadian workers, and the Telecommunications Workers Union, which represents 13,000, have tentatively agreed to merge – the second large private-sector union merger of the year. Source: CBC Date: 08/30/2013 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/08/30/steelworkers-telecommunications-union-merger.html Related links: Union media release Canadian Press story Canadian Labour Reporter story The United Steelworkers The… Read more »
Unions merge in hopes of reversing decline
Description: With organized labour on the defensive across the country, the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada are merging to create a 300,000-member union called Unifor. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: 08/08/2013 Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/unions-political-calculus-with-numbers-come-power/article13678660/ Related links: Unifor CAW CEP Financial Post story CTV story Questions for discussion: Who… Read more »
