The latest edition of our District 250 newsletter focuses solely on Retirement Income. It both describes government programs such as Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan and describes the pensions options available to Machinists in British Columbia.
The Nanaimo Duncan and District Labour Council held the first of three events for the Day of Mourning, April 28, 2012, in Lake Cowichan at the Forest Workers’ Memorial Park.
The gallery below of memorial bricks shows the impact of workplace safety on this small town. All these mostly young men were killed on the job.
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 face of the Charest government’s refusal to negotiate and university/CEGEP administration efforts to use injunctions and threats to force students back to school.
We recognize that students in Quebec pay lower fees than in the rest of Canada because of a long tradition of activist mobilization for quality, accessible education. We stand in solidarity with the student strikers and the professors, campus workers and community members who have supported this movement. Students in Quebec are fighting against the commercialization of education and user pay through tuition increases that create massive barriers to access and student debt that profits the banks while haunting students for years after graduation. We believe victory for the student movement in Quebec will signal a new level of mobilization for proper funding of quality, accessible education and against the austerity agenda. We commit ourselves to the defense of those arrested. We strongly support the mobilizations to defend free political expression on campus and to continue the strikes until victory, even in the face of repression.
Together, we can stop the hike.
Jamie Ross
President
CAW Local 2002
Chuck Atkinson
President & Directing General Chairperson
IAMAW Transportation, District 140
John Reis
President
CUPE Local 4092
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 the Prince George and Northern Regions.
Week of April 23, 2012 – Reo Elkin and Cordell Draayers will be in the Kootenay Region.
May 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2012 – Reo Elkin and Cordell Draayers will be in the Vancouver Island Region.
Week of May 7, 2012 – Reo Elkin and Cordell Draayers will be in the Lower Mainland Region.
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