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Vote of confidence at the Quality Hotel Dorval

Employees of the Quality Hotel Dorval remain loyal to the SEU 800 It was on December 10th, that a vote was held at the Quality Hotel, in Dorval, to decide on the affiliation of the employees of this establishment. The members of the base unit were courted by an independent union who tried to organize […]
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August 2016

Last year we rallied against Harper who was daring enough to attack unions. But his daring was not enough. Trade unions, including SEU local 800, worked hard and helped to elect a different government. We needed to get rid of him, and we succeeded. Read the journal
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December 2015

2015 has been eventful for workers in our union. We can no longer keep count of the protests against austerity, whose first victims are undoubtedly Quebec citizens. Read the journal
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June 2015

TOWARDS A FAIRER WORLD Read the journal
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December 2014

“It is our collective responsibility to ensure that our society remains a society of which we are proud: not a society of undocumented migrants, expulsions, suspicion towards immigrants; a society where we question pensions or acquired social security; a society where the media is in the hands of the rich…” 1 Stéphane Hessel: Time for […]
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June 2014

In Quebec, following the statements of the Charter of Values, there has been much debate about our differences. Yet in our union action, it is our common status as workers that we need to focus on. We sell our labour to produce a good or service in exchange for a fair wage, in order to […]
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December 2013

Our strength is that, despite our differences of opinion, we stand together when it comes to defending the rights of our members and workers. Read the journal
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June 2013

Looking at the Canadian political scene, it is easy to notice which parties are from the left wing or from the right wing. The New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Conservative Party (CP) are opposed in their position, it is rather obvious. No need for a political science degree to understand that. Read the journal
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December 2012

Normally, when we use the word proletarian, we imagine a speech related to battles fought by workers, to Karl Marx or to communism. Not this time, during my readings, I came upon the etymology of the word that means, at its origin a Roman citizen who has only his children as his riches. Read the […]
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December 2011

Don’t be afraid to say it, the Charest government is trying to drown a fish. To divert the glares of citizens on the corruption within the construction industry from the builders and the engineering firms, Charest is attacking unions. Furthermore, Charest has succeeded in dividing unions by exciting (TAUNTING) the QFL and the International offices […]