CUPW Local 566 holding down the line in Canada Post strike
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CUPE Local 2361 fights for fair wages
Hundreds of community members and Western University’s groundskeepers, caretakers and tradespeople represented by CUPE Local 2361 held a strike solidarity rally on August 30 amid bargaining with the university for a renewed contract. The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2361 represents Western University’s building services and facilities operations employees, including landscaping services, trades workers and caretakers. The union entered a legal strike position on August 29. Workers and community members gathered at Western University’s main gates on Richmond Street for a solidarity rally at 12 p.m. on August 30. The atmosphere at the rally was energetic as CUPE 2361…
Why Picket in Solidarity with Other Workers?
Originally published by the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association on September 19, 2024. When I was a kid, my dad worked as a printer-slotter in a cardboard box factory, and when he was on day shifts, I knew he would be home around the time I got back from school. At one point, he started coming home later as well as leaving earlier in the morning, and he explained to me why: there was a strike by another union (operating engineers) at the same factory, and while his union (Canadian Paperworkers Union) could not strike during their contract, he would arrive…
“A fight for Ontario”: Why London LCBO workers went on strike
London’s provincial liquor control board workers went on strike for two weeks in July, joining an Ontario-wide labour movement that closed liquor stores across the province and ended with increased wages and benefits for workers, though privatization will move forward.
PSAC 610 strike shows strong results of union solidarity at Western University
On Friday, April 11, Western’s campus and the city of London saw the beginning of an 18-day strike by the teaching assistants of PSAC 610, and with it, some very strong demonstrations of union solidarity.