Category Archives: Education

Unions In Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike

Posted on 25/04/2012 by Alastair

The Quebec student strike against an increase in tuition fees and for free education is a crucial battle against the austerity agenda and for accessible, quality post-secondary education. This is the longest student strike in Quebec history, with over 170,000 students on strike and over 200,000 demonstrating on March 22. It remains strong in the [...]

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Local Lodge 692 Executive to Visit All LL692 Shops

Posted on 11/04/2012 by Alastair

All Members of Local Lodge 692 Are Encouraged To Fill Out The 692 Survey (see below) 
Please be advised of the following schedule for shop visits (details for individual shops to be released soon): 
April 11, 12, 13, 2012 – Al Cyr will be in the Okanagan Region. 
Week of April 16, 2012 – Reo Elkin and Cordell Draayers will be in [...]

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March 28th – Day of Mourning – VANCOUVER AND NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCILS

Posted on 10/04/2012 by Alastair

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Directions
By car:
Driving from Vancouver
• Drive towards New Westminster on Highway 1 or Kingsway
• Drive south on 8th Street towards Fraser River
• Turn east on Columbia Street
• Turn south on Begbie Street
• Turn west on Quayside Drive
Driving from Coquitlam and Surrey
• Drive towards New Westminster on Highway 1
• Exit Brunette Avenue (Exit #40B)
• [...]

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District Lodge 250 Web Pages Wins For Layout and Design

Posted on 27/02/2012 by Alastair

Communicator Alastair Haythornthwaite and District Lodge 250 President Alan Wheatley display the award
Each year the International Assocaiation of Machinists and Aerospace Workers hold a contest to promote excellence in our Newsletter and Web Sites. This year this web site was awarded third place in North America.
Your Web Editor is proud our District’s Web Pages received this recognition. [...]

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Black Labour History in Canada and the IAMAW

Posted on 07/02/2012 by Alastair

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Women and African-Canadians entered the workforce in the highest numbers ever in 1940, during the Second Word War. Black employment grew by 150 percent by the end of the war.
A. Philip Randolph
Unions, however, were not so committed to the rights of non-white workers. Thirty-one American Federation of Labour (AFL) affiliates barred black members, as did [...]

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