Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back into Public Hands
An animated video about bringing water back into public control. It is called re-municipalization.
Graham Cox
Graham Cox is a labour union researcher at Unifor focusing on economic, bargaining, and policy in the energy, road, rail, and marine sectors.
Previous to Unifor, Graham was a researcher at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). At CUPE his work focused on economic and policy analysis for the anti-privatization, trade, post-secondary education, utilities, employment insurance, special projects, and organizing files.
Before working at CUPE, Graham served the student movement as National Researcher of the Canadian Federation of Students and chairperson of the National Graduate Caucus.
Graham has worked as a union organizer for the PSAC, CUPE, and the CFS with a focus on graduate student teaching assistant, research assistant and contingent academic staff union drives. This included leading drives to organize academic workers at the University of New Brunswick, UPEI, and Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Beef and Pork Access a Red Herring in CETA negotiations | National Farmers Union
(Saskatoon, SK) – CETA negotiations have ground to a standstill with Canada claiming that the stumbling block is the EU's unwillingness to provide market access for our hormone-free beef and pork. NFU research shows this claim to be hollow.
Canadian Rand Formula vs. US Free-Loader
The Conservative attacks on workers' collective rights are focused on undermining the financial capacity of workers' organizations. The goal is to destroy the ability of unions to fight for the interests of their members at the bargaining table and in the political arena.
Labour is a Social Movement | The Citizens' Press
Labour, organized into politically active and democratic unions, is essential to the support for all other social justice movements. It is why the Conservative activists in Canada and around the world are so hostile to them. No matter what nonsensical reason right-wingers put forward, their main reason to attack unions is to undermine the most powerful opposition to their regressive agenda.
Ryerson spending millions to cover food conglomerate Aramark Canada's losses | Toronto Star
With Canada-EU trade talks nearly finished, Quebec Solidaire reaches across the Atlantic for a progressive alliance against CETA | Stuart Trew
Unemployment Crisis | John Evans | Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
Trade Union Briefing from TUAC to the OECD on the World Economic Forum.
EI protest in Moncton attracts 300 | CBC
The Stupidity of Economists. Is it a wonder that mainstream economics is broken?
Journalists comment on Harper's Bill C-377
Bill C-377 was a Harper Conservative written federal piece of legislation that is supposed to be about union financial disclosure. However, after careful analysis we came to understand that it is a highly partisan and political attack on the right of free association in Canada. The Parliamentary Budget Office and the Canada Revenue Agency have both released costing analysis showing that the government will have to spend millions of dollars a year on the implementation of the reporting system.