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3/12/2006 Private Sector Solidarity Essential - Massive Public Sector Strike Over Job Security Looms Gene McGuckin
It's crunch time again in BC as 300,000 public sector workers try to win contract settlements that protect their jobs against the privatization/contracting out mania of Gordon Campbell's Liberals and their corporate buddies. Contracts expire March more
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2/24/2006 We’re Approaching A Crossroads.… Solidarity Caucus
We’re Approaching A Crossroads.... The B.C. labour movement is fast approaching a crossroads. 90% of the province’s public sector workers are voting on contracts this spring, and the decisions we take will affect every working person in B.C., more
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11/28/2005 Gear Up Solidarity ACTION For the Hot Spring Of 2006 Solidarity Caucus
We’re fast approaching a crucial period in BC Union history. In 19 weeks, at midnight on March 31, contracts covering over 90% of BC’s public sector expire. Tens of thousands are coming out of three years of 0-0-0% to confront a provincial government more
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5/18/2005 Labour cannot win a war with the courts -- nor with a legitimately elected government Will Offley
(Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, October 20, 2005 Ian Mulgrew is no friend of teachers. He's no better as a labour historian, either. There are many examples in Canadian labour history where unity in the streets has forced courts and employers to s more
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5/16/2005 Prepare the General Strike Tom Hansen
Let’s resurrect the call for a General Strike in British Columbia. The BCTF has taken a principle stand against an autocratic government in Victoria, a government which does not respect working people. The Liberals are now intent on crushing teach more
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5/15/2004 B.C. Fed are embedded with Campbell's neo-liberals. Victor Finberg
It was known that Campbell's neo-liberals were sociopaths before they were elected three years ago. It was known that they would destroy the infrastructure that makes civil society possible, although many people chose to pretend that this was n more
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4/30/2004 Angry CUPE members ready to defy government Canadian Union of Public Employees
BURNABY – Many angry and fed up CUPE members plan to walk off the job Friday in protest of the B.C. Liberal government’s regressive legislation against hospital workers. “Go, go, go is what our members are saying to us,” CUPE BC president Barry more
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3/8/2004 CUPE votes 97.7% to reject the Government's "final offer" Bob Beech
Outside events may be lending support for a General Strike, things that the BC Fed cannot, as it has in its shameful past, stifle. CUPE voted 97.7% to reject the Government's "final offer" which would have resulted in a net rollback of about 37% more
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2/27/2004 Frontline Report From Jubilee Wildcat Action. PGSC
At around 2 pm on Monday February 23rd two or three dozen housekeeping and food service employees walked off the job at the Jubilee hospital in outrage with the decision of the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) to lay off “1,021” members more
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1/29/2004 Liberals cancel contract with democracy - it’s time to side with our communities Canadian Union of Public Employees
It’s time to strike back. The provincial government has cancelled its contract with democracy. Under the Liberals, community consultation has become a thing of the past. We have rallied, marched, and lobbied but this government is not listening more
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