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.
PORT ELGIN, ON (April 13, 2012) -- CEP President Dave Coles speaks to the CAW Council Meeting on our union's fight against the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Members of CEP's Executive Board are attending the meeting at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin this weekend. [more photos]
TORONTO/ OTTAWA -- At a conference organized to kick-off the new union discussions between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, labour experts stressed that corporate power and anti-worker governments are driving the need for union renewal.
A local union president says the merging of two national unions is a necessity.The National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) have begun preliminary talks to merge into one national union.CAW Local 229 president Kari Jefford, who represents 2,300 members across the region, said merging CAW and CEP would make both unions stronger in a political climate that has seen organized labour come under attack in recent years by both the private and public sectors.“Our memberships are being devastated in many of our sectors,” she said.
(TORONTO/OTTAWA) -- The executive boards of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions have unanimously approved a process to explore the possibility of creating a new Canadian union as soon as mid-2013.
TORONTO -- Two of Canada's biggest private-sector labour unions are formally exploring the possibility of creating a new, merged organization, a move they believe could spark other unions to join them.
The Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers, which have a total of more than 320,000 members, said Tuesday they have been holding preliminary discussions for weeks.
