Category Archives: Economics

Machinists at Pro Mac Manufacturing Ratify New Collective Agreement

Posted on 16/11/2011 by Alastair

Nathan Lerner ticketed Warehouseman and Shop Steward

Pro Mac Manufacturing is one of the largest fabrication and machine shop on Vancouver Island. Besides operating as a jobbing shop for pulp and saw mills on Vancouver Island, Pro Mac Manufacturing makes a line of industrial vegitation clearing attachments and specialises in supplying saw arbours and saw guides to [...]

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Machinists in BC will benefit from new ship construction

Posted on 19/10/2011 by Alastair

Dean Andrist – Machinist Apprentice at Vancouver Shipyard

Today the Federal Government awarded Seaspan Marine an $8 billion contract to build new seven non-combat ships:

4 Canadian Coast Guard science vessels

2 Royal Canadian Navy joint support ships, with an option for a 3rd

Canadian Coast Guard polar icebreaker Diefenbaker

Seaspan has yards both in Victoria and North Vancouver. The Machinist Union [...]

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B.C. Federation of Labour Supports Occupy Wall Street

Posted on 14/10/2011 by Alastair

B.C. FEDERATION OF LABOUR STATEMENT ON OCCUPY WALL STREET
The Occupy Wall Street movement expresses an underlying desire for fairness and equality in the economy and our society. The B.C. Federation of Labour stands in solidarity with that desire, and calls on the governments of British Columbia and Canada to act swiftly and decisively to narrow [...]

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Why Unions Matter

Posted on 04/10/2011 by Alastair

October 3rd, 2011

Bruce Campbell and Armine Yalnizyan
Are unions more of a problem than a solution today?
Anti-union sentiment has accelerated since the global crisis of 2008 brought economies to their knees and left public finances in a mess.
Widespread frustration with fragile growth and soaring debt has been channeled towards unions, which are increasingly characterized as an [...]

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BC Federation of Labour: We need your help to protect BC Hydro

Posted on 24/08/2011 by Alastair

 

Christy Clark and her BC Liberal government are proposing massive rate hikes and layoffs of dedicated BC Hydro employees who have made BC Hydro the jewel of BC’s Crown Corporations.
An average family will pay an additional $130 or more next year, and as many as 1,000 people could lose their jobs, despite BC Hydro running [...]

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