The General Assembly (GA) of Occupy Ottawa last night resolved to join Air Canada flight attendants’ rally on Parliament Hill at 12:00 noon on Friday, Friday, October 21, 2011. Occupy Ottawa is encouraging all in the movement to come out and “…
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Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: More belated political musings
I write this from Arizona, where I’ve been attending a work conference this week in the Phoenix area. I’m staying through the weekend to see some hockey, as the Coyotes play their home opener vs. the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. The old Jets vs. the new …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from progressives who have been criticizing the system (some since Woodstock) …
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Minister’s ‘Super Elite’ upgrade needed no help from above
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/air-canada-passengerlist/?cmp=rss
Continue readingcmkl: Air Canada vs CUPE: the company charges ‘bad faith’
It would be funny if I didn’t think that the livelihoods of 6,000 or so people hung in the balance. But Air Canada has charged the union with bad faith bargaining because the membership refused to accept the second tentative agreement CUPE negotiators …
Continue readingcmkl: The federal labour board ‘reviews’ the situation at Air Canada
Journalism can be so maddeningly vague at times. This business of the federal labour relations board “reviewing” the negotiations at Air Canada and therefore rendering any strike illegal is just one of those times.
Continue readingWell, Lisa, Just How ‘Sexy’ Were You For the Canadian Industrial Relations Board?
Yeah, I know, cheesy title. Save it. Lisa Raitt’s a aging tart, I can’t do anything to change that. Something about her will perhaps turn me into a female center-left version of Don Cherry, with a better taste in clothes–they’re all black. Something about her just brings out the vulgar language out of . . . → Read More: Well, Lisa, Just How ‘Sexy’ Were You For the Canadian Industrial Relations Board?
Continue readingcmkl: Air Canada flight attendants vote down two tentative agreements
Wow. This does not happen a lot. Air Canada flight attendants – CUPE members – have voted down not one but two tentative agreements that the union’s leadership was recommending.
Continue readingAnd Here We Go Again! Lisa ‘I’m Too Sexy For The Proletariat’ Raitt Is Mad And She Ain’t a Takin’ It No More! Part D’Uh!
Yep, Dear Lisa is busy sharpening her claws and no doubt finding ‘sexy’ ways to stamp on workers, yet again, boys ‘n’ girls, and this time, it’s Air Canada Flight attendants. Flight attendants, who are represented by CUPE, have voted to reject the latest deal negotiated between CUPE and management. Interesting twist. What . . . → Read More: And Here We Go Again! Lisa ‘I’m Too Sexy For The Proletariat’ Raitt Is Mad And She Ain’t a Takin’ It No More! Part D’Uh!
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s War on Universal Human Rights Continues
It’s Air Canada again. This time it’s the 6,800 flight attendants who have voted down an offer from the airline and will be in a legal strike position on Thursday.It wasn’t long after the flight attendants’ Sunday vote that a spokesperson for Lab…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Viva Manitoba? Much news of latest Orange Wave fails to reach Alberta
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger in Winnipeg in June. The icon to his left indicates women voters, who were obviously paying attention. Leastways, the people have spoken and he is still premier. Below: Former Manitoba premier Gary Doer with some guy, a F…
Continue readingcmkl: Strike breaking legislation: from premature to preemptive
I don’t know what’s in the deal reached today between CUPE’s Air Canada Component and the company. I’m guessing, since Lisa Raitt said the union would not be allowed to exercise its legal right to strike, that it will not herald a new era of progress a…
Continue readingThibodeau v Air Canada
The Federal Court decision in Thibodeau v Air Canada is here. But you can get a sense of the outcome via just about any major national media outlet this afternoon.As Canadian Press reported:”Air Canada must pay $12,000 and apologize to an Ottawa coupl…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 16, 2011
While June 16 was a shortened day due to the NDP’s weekend convention, it wasn’t lacking for a few notes of interest.Issue of the DayWhile the Cons took the opportunity to serve notice of their intention to impose back-to-work legislation at Air Canada…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Food for Thought
Perhaps it is because I am currently reading The Trouble With Billionaires, by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, but I have become especially sensitive to the increasingly shrill anti-union rhetoric by CEO’s and some allegedly ‘ordinary’ members of the pu…
Continue readingcmkl: Rights versus the economy
In uniondom we talk a lot about the ‘right to free collective bargaining’. I expect most of us realize the meaning of that phrase is lost on most people in the country and even on most amongst union members. If anyone asks me my professional opinion, I…
Continue readingCongratulations Elizabeth May on the First Green Party Parliamentary Climb Down!
She says one thing one day, and backs down from it the next. The Green Party of Canada is growing up folks. You see it is doing all the things the other parties do!
Of course correct me if I’m wrong that this is the first one. Did Blair Wilson e…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Support The Strikes To Defend Pensions
Usually even the mention of Margaret Wente’s name can ruin my day but her article in today’s Globe & Mail is actually not too bad in terms of laying out the terms of the strike and lock-out at Canada Post and Air Canada respectively. Of course, in …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On warped incentives
Chris nicely highlights the Cons’ stunningly quick resort to back-to-work legislation after a mere day of Air Canada’s CAW strike, at a point where there’s been little if any impact on anybody. But it’s worth noting as well how it is that such legislat…
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