TORONTO – The strike by members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 1999 against Reliance Home Comfort has ended with today’s ratification of a new collective agreement.
 
The 300 CEP workers, who had been on strike since May 2nd, install, repair and service heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment for homeowners throughout Ontario.

CEP Ontario Administrative Vice-President Dave Moffat thanked the members for their solidarity and perseverance during the dispute.

TORONTO – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Reliance Home Comfort have reached a tentative agreement. Voting will take place by members in the upcoming days and details will be released early next week. 

About 300 members of CEP Local 1999 have been on strike since May 2^nd at company locations in Windsor, Sarnia, London, Brantford, Cambridge Burlington, Kingston and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

TORONTO -- SNC-Lavalin is jeopardizing the future of the struggling CANDU industry, and sending highly-skilled workers out of the country, by forcing its employees into a strike position, say two of Canada’s top labour leaders.

The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers union have each pledged one million dollars to help finance a potential strike by the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates.

Strike ends at Direct Energy workers ratify new agreement

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TORONTO -- Members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 975 narrowly ratified a memorandum of agreement this afternoon.

CEP Ontario Administrative Vice-President Dave Moffat says the members are to be congratulated for maintaining positive morale and solidarity on the picket line during the two-week strike.

TORONTO – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Direct Energy bargained into the early hours, April 28^th, to arrive at a tentative collective agreement on behalf of the 550 workers who have been on strike since April 18^th. 

Voting will take place across the province today, tomorrow and Wednesday. Details and results will be released later in the week.

OTTAWA -- “If the Prime Minister was serious about not wanting to re-open the debate on reproductive rights, he would have taken action to stop it from hitting the floor of the House of Commons,” says Dave Coles, president of one of Canada’s largest private sector unions.

 The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union president says he does “not believe for a minute that Stephen Harper does not want this issue to be dragged up again.

 “Nothing rattles through Parliament like this without the PM’s support,” says Coles.

TORONTO –About 550 Direct Energy workers, members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, are now on strike. 

“As our customers did with the new terms and conditions on rental water heaters, it is now our turn to take a stand on a living wage, balancing work and family and being paid a fair salary and fair benefits from a company that continues to make large profits,” says Dave Moffat, CEP’s Ontario Administrative Vice-President.

OTTAWA -- With 650 jobs being cut at the CBC, Canada’s largest media union is concerned about the erosion of quality journalism. “Will quality journalism get chilled, regional voices silenced and critical analysis of government gagged?" asks  Peter Murdoch, Vice-President Media for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.

"A strong voice for demanding government accountability is being bullied,” says Murdoch.

Ottawa, ON (March 27, 2012) -- The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) will appear tomorrow before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington D.C. to provide a thematic briefing on the subject of the disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Canada. [Read More]