Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Union of Service Employees, Local 800, representing more than 10,000 cleaning staff, has been calling for a bonus for these frontline workers. “We first approached employer associations and received the response that employers would not be able to pass on this additional cost to their clients,” the […]
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. Link to the journal : December 2015
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 […]
Our strength is that, despite our differences of opinion, we stand together when it comes to defending the rights of our members and workers. Link to the journal: December 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. Link to the […]
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. Link to […]
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 […]
After the tax reductions and electoral speeches claiming a balanced budget, the government and their “experts”, now echoed by their partisan media are attempting to instill in the population a series of preconceived ideas: Link to the journal : June 2010
The United Nations Organization (UN) appears to be skeptic with the dawn of the Copenhagen conference on climate change and the possible accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) that would replace the Kyoto Protocol. On the other hand, the environmentalists believe that there will be other “Copenhagen’s” that will bring about an obligatory change. […]
Some 50 years ago, when the large American union central was created, the AFL-CIO, 1 American worker out of 5 was a member of a union. Today, only 1 worker out of 12 is unionized. Such a situation allows us to realize that “Made in the USA” unionism is an endangered species. Link to the […]
