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…
Air Canada
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…
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…
Congratulations 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…
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…
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…
So this is how it’s going to be: CAW to be legislated back to work after one day on strike
After a single day of strike, labour minister Lisa Raitt has announced the government's plan to legislate CAW members at Air Canada back to work. Wow. Welcome to Stephen Harper's…
Collective Bargaining Has No Place in Harperland
Our Furious Leader has served notice that strikes will not be permitted in his country, Harperland. Finance minister and dutiful leprechaun Flaherty has announced his master's government is preparing legislation…