OTTAWA – Today's ruling from the World Trade Organization (WTO) shows that trade deals to which Canada has signed are preventing governments from taking responsible action to develop a green economy. One of Canada's largest private sector unions, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) is calling the decision undemocratic and unacceptable.
Media Releases
CAW and CEP Take New Union Plan on National Tour
Publié
05/03/13
TORONTO -- CAW and CEP leaders have taken the New Union Project on the road this month, in a lead up to the founding convention of the new Canadian national union over Labour Day weekend.
Corporations getting away with murder, says union on Bangladesh building collapse
Publié
04/26/13
OTTAWA – "The photos of the factory building collapse in Bangladesh tell the story of corporate greed run amuck, says Dave Coles, president of Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. "This criminal disaster is the direct result of unregulated, free-market capitalism."
Coles says even the most basic of International Labour Organization standards have been violated and the retailers responsible should be condemned in the harshest terms and brought to swift justice."
Union members reject Resolute proposal
Publié
04/22/13
THUNDER-BAY - Members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 39 have voted down a proposal from Resolute Forest Products to eliminate jobs through contracting out. The employer has identified 42 jobs across the mill which they have decided to contract out, including newsprint shipping, kraft shipping, garage maintenance and bark inventory and handling.
Reinstate labour fund tax credit: CEP to Flaherty
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04/19/13
OTTAWA – In a letter sent to Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty yesterday, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) requested that the elimination of the labour fund tax credit contained in the 2013 federal budget be reconsidered.
Media Advisory -- Victoria Mayor to Address Union's Health and Safety Conference
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04/07/13
VICTORIA -- The Mayor of Victoria, Dean Fortin, will speak to Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) delegates attending a Health and Safety Conference on Monday, April 8.
Put Canada’s energy needs first, union tells NEB
Publié
04/03/13
CALGARY, ALTA – The president of Canada’s largest energy workers' union says a case being heard today by the National Energy Board will determine whether Canadian oil will continue to flow to the US when a Canadian refinery is being starved for supply.
“The NEB has a duty to protect the public interest and ensure that Canadian energy security is given the highest priority,” says Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union President Dave Coles.
Bell Aliant’s contract offer shows lack of equity: union votes this week
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03/27/13
TORONTO -- Following months of collective bargaining, members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, who work at Bell Aliant, are voting on their employer’s offer this week.
Budget attempts to extinguish Aboriginal land and title to ease oil expansion
Publié
03/25/13
For immediate release March 25, 2013
OTTAWA – Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union President Dave Coles and Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow will join the Nishiyuu walkers as they complete their 1500-kilometre journey on Victoria Island at noon today.
Union leader joins Nishiyuu Walkers as they reach Ottawa
Publié
03/22/13
OTTAWA -- One of Canada's largest private sector unions is showing solidarity with the Nishiyuu Walkers, who have spent the past 10 weeks walking towards Parliament Hill from Whapmagoostui in Northern Quebec.
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) President Dave Coles will join the walkers as they arrive on Victoria Island, Monday, March 25th between noon and 2pm. Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow will also be present.
Ghost budget falls flat on job creation and energy security
Publié
03/21/13
OTTAWA -- "Ten years too late, the Tories have discovered their economic policies have destroyed Canada's manufacturing sector, including hundreds of paper mill towns," says Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, "but today's budget lays out a vacuous plan that falls flat when it comes to job creation and skills training."
Conservatives should disclose public funds spent to push Keystone XL
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03/14/13
OTTAWA – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) is calling for a full accounting of the public money spent lobbying in favour of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. In recent weeks several Conservative ministers have flown to Washington to push the approval of the pipeline while Harper has made it the top priority for Canada's embassies and 22 consular offices in the U.S for 3 consecutive years.
Saskatchewan labour activists plan Employment Act fight-back
Publié
03/13/13
REGINA, SK -- More than 70 Local union leaders from across the province, members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, will gather in Regina tomorrow to map out a strategy to expose the dangers of the government’s Bill 85, the Saskatchewan Employment Act.
New Canadian union will be a voice for working women, says CAW and CEP
Publié
03/07/13
The new Canadian union being created by the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) will be a force for working women and represent more than 80,000 women in several key sectors of the national economy. The fight for women's equality will continue to be an important struggle in the new formation.
Mexican, Canadian and US telco unions join forces against outsourcing, deregulation
Publié
03/07/13
MEXICO CITY – Canada’s largest telecommunications union has organized a tri-national conference of telecom unions that begins today in Mexico City to work on strategies for reversing what Dave Coles says is “growing job insecurity and poor working conditions faced by telco workers in North America.”
Canadian trade unionists join global march calling for an end to violence against women and girls
Publié
03/07/13
NEW YORK -- Canadian women will be among the trade union members represented by four international Global Union Federations --- the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Education International (EI), Public Services International (PSI) and UNI Global Union – at a march in New York this Friday to call for an end to violence against women and girls. The 42 Canadians among the 85-member trade union delegation are in New York this week for the United Nations 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), taking place March 4-15, 2013.
Cultural groups unite in opposition to Transcontinental Media’s draconian freelance contract
Publié
03/04/13
March 4, 2013 - Transcontinental Media is forcing its Canadian freelance writers and photographers to sign a contract that strips them of all rights to their work, without providing reasonable compensation, or even the chance to negotiate.
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) and its freelance local, the Canadian Freelance Union (CFU) stands in deep opposition to this move.
Toronto Star delivers blow to quality journalism. Cuts make “no economic sense”, says CEP
Publié
03/04/13
TORONTO -- The Toronto Star made a devastating decision today to contract out its page design and layout to Pagemasters, as well as other cuts across the newsroom - including its library - and in advertising.
In all, 44 jobs could be lost.
"Obviously newspapers face some economic challenges, but cutting jobs threatens the quality journalism that is at the root of any profit margin," said Peter Murdoch, Vice-President Media for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, which represents almost 500 workers at the Star.
Conservatives must back track on Employment Insurance changes
Publié
02/22/13
OTTAWA – Changes to Employment Insurance (EI) affecting thousands of seasonal workers and their communities must be overturned, says the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP). Further to the harmful changes, the government began making unannounced house visits to EI recipients this week.
Resolute workers stand firm on refusing pension cuts
Publié
02/18/13
OTTAWA -- Workers at Resolute Forest Products mills in Ontario and Quebec today demanded that Quebec's pension regulator, the Régie des rentes, and the company reach an agreement to resolve the solvency deficit in the pension plan without any cuts to benefits.
