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lometres of tracks across Canada, and into parts of the are the victims of aggressive concession demands, backed up by federal back-to-work legislation. The question is: What are the Canadian Labour Congress told the media that CPR bargained in bad faith, hiding and its major affiliates doing to resist the gutting of behind the federal government to roll back workers’
ence walked off the job on May 23, shutting down CPR’s sions CPR squeezed out of workers at other railways.
Conservative Labour Minister Lisa Raitt proved eager agement laid off another 2000 employees, with a further to help the bosses, introducing legislation on May 28 irst it was postal workers. Then Air Canada workworkers’ rights?
Conductors, locomotive engineers, and rail traffic controllers represented by Teamsters Canada Rail Conferentire freight service from Vancouver to Montreal. Man1400 affected.
U.S. Midwest.
cerns.
The strike impacted many economic sectors, including coal, fertilizer, grain, and auto. CPR operates 24,000 kiDoug Finnson, vice-president of Teamsters Canada, pensions and to ignore serious health and safety conCPR boss Ed Greenberg demands the same concesstrike-busting bill.
disappear entirely.
there’s nothing neat about 904,000 young Canadians, Quebecois and aboriginals being unemployed.
They represent roughly 13 per cent of all young people between the ages of 15 and 29. More than half of them have given up even looking for a job.
In some countries, high levels of youth unemployment have led to mass protests and demands for fundamental change. In Greece and Spain more than half of those under age 25 are out of work due to the economic crash, aggravated by government austerity measures.
Perhaps Greece is coming to Quebec. —B.W.
down the middle ... of the company demands. NDP fedThe truth is, much more could and should be done, bargaining—not to mention decent pensions, employment insurance benefits and many other past gains—