Starmer ‘can’t sack him or let him resign’, says ally of Dan Jarvis after predecessor’s resignation The new defence secretary is to revisit a controversial plan for funding the armed forces and may return to demand more cash from the Treasury, allies have said.Multiple government sources said Dan Jarvis would look to “reprioritise” aspects of the defence investment plan (Dip), which was delayed until July after the resignation of John Healey following a disagreement over its funding. Continue re
Starmer ‘can’t sack him or let him resign’, says ally of Dan Jarvis after predecessor’s resignation
The new defence secretary is to revisit a controversial plan for funding the armed forces and may return to demand more cash from the Treasury, allies have said.
Multiple government sources said Dan Jarvis would look to “reprioritise” aspects of the defence investment plan (Dip), which was delayed until July after the resignation of John Healey following a disagreement over its funding.
Today’s episode of the Courage My Friends podcast series features the keynote discussion from the 34th annual Labour Fair at Toronto’s George Brown College. Founding representative of the Toronto Airport Workers’ Council Sean Smith and member of the Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN) Matt Whitfield, discuss the crises of labour precarity and housing insecurity, how these are the outcomes of systems rigged against workers and communities and methods of effective grassroots and labour organiz
Today’s episode of the Courage My Friends podcast series features the keynote discussion from the 34th annual Labour Fair at Toronto’s George Brown College. Founding representative of the Toronto Airport Workers’ Council Sean Smith and member of the Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN) Matt Whitfield, discuss the crises of labour precarity and housing insecurity, how these are the outcomes of systems rigged against workers and communities and methods of effective grassroots and labour organizing toward the building of working peoples’ cities.
On the housing “crisis”, Whitfield says:
“ The system is rigged … After years of skyrocketing housing prices and rental costs, I think it’s safe to conclude the housing system is not designed to provide people with affordable homes, no matter what politicians or developers or landlords might say. Instead, the housing system seems to be designed to extract as much wealth as possible from people who need a place to live.”
Reflecting on lessons from labour history, Smith says:
“ It’s funny, in Saskatchewan, people think co-op is like a big evil conglomerate like Walmart because they’re everywhere. But it’s the lifeblood of these small towns. And what it was is that the people had to find a system to unrig the system, and how they did that was by forming their own community and said, ‘You guys, your superstores, your Walmarts, you do your stuff. We’ll take care of ourselves.’ And workers did the same … that was workers’ ways of trying to collectively come together, form cooperatives. Collectivization, to work together to become a ‘we’ to take on the boss … A famous Irish trade unionist Jim Larkin said: ‘They’re only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.’”
About today’s speakers:
Sean Smith is a retired airport worker and founding representative of the Toronto Airport Workers’ Council; the collective voice for Toronto Pearson’s 50,000 workers and 6 largest airport unions.
Matt Whitfield got his start in activism as a resident at the Occupy Toronto encampment in 2011. A long-time Parkdale resident, Whitfield’s been connected to tenant organizing in his building and neighbourhood for several years. In 2020 and 2021, he participated in a decentralized Parkdale-wide “Keep Your Rent” campaign, withholding all rent payments for fifteen months. He is currently an active member of the Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN), a grassroots neighbourhood organization focused on resisting gentrification, building tenant power, and supporting our unhoused neighbours through mutual aid and collaborative action. Whitfield is also a member of the steering committee for the upcoming second annual People’s Assembly on Housing Justice, an event that brings together advocacy and activist groups from across Toronto.
Justice secretary’s plans likely to increase black people’s suspicion of court system, committee suggestsDavid Lammy’s planned changes to the criminal courts in England and Wales could have a “far-reaching” impact on race relations, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.The deputy prime minister’s plan to remove the right to elect for a crown court trial “has the potential to increase mistrust in the criminal justice system among the black community”, the justice select committee said, be
Justice secretary’s plans likely to increase black people’s suspicion of court system, committee suggests
David Lammy’s planned changes to the criminal courts in England and Wales could have a “far-reaching” impact on race relations, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.
The deputy prime minister’s plan to remove the right to elect for a crown court trial “has the potential to increase mistrust in the criminal justice system among the black community”, the justice select committee said, because black defendants are more likely to elect for trial.
This week on the show, rabble editor Nick Seebruch and publisher Sarah Sahagian sit down to discuss ongoing news coverage on rabble.ca this summer, the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the war in Iran, Pride Month coverage and more.
Some pieces mentioned in this episode include:
Scott Douglas Jacobsen’s on-the-ground reporting in Ukraine
The heroic life of Betty Baxter, athlete and activist by Tom Sandborn
Five Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ books to add to your TBR list
US-Mexico start free trade
This week on the show, rabble editor Nick Seebruch and publisher Sarah Sahagian sit down to discuss ongoing news coverage on rabble.ca this summer, the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the war in Iran, Pride Month coverage and more.
The report released by the U.S. Trade Representative said Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and the United Kingdom and some other countries would face 10% additional tariffs.
The report released by the U.S. Trade Representative said Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and the United Kingdom and some other countries would face 10% additional tariffs.
Despite his managerial veneer and quiet approach, the outgoing defence secretary is a highly political operatorUK politics live – latest updatesIf there was one thing Downing Street could rely on with John Healey, it was avoiding unnecessary drama. Whether in parliament or on the morning broadcast round, his sober suits and general demeanour of a benign but firm headteacher spelled reassurance.But then, just before 12.10pm on Wednesday, the drama arrived. In a letter posted to social media, Heal
If there was one thing Downing Street could rely on with John Healey, it was avoiding unnecessary drama. Whether in parliament or on the morning broadcast round, his sober suits and general demeanour of a benign but firm headteacher spelled reassurance.
But then, just before 12.10pm on Wednesday, the drama arrived. In a letter posted to social media, Healey resigned as defence secretary, a job he had held – whether in government or its shadow equivalent – from the moment Keir Starmer became Labour leader.
Migrant farmworker advocates have alerted Prime Minister Mark Carney that they will be submitting a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee in December to mark International Migrant’s Day. The complaint will highlight what advocates say is the government’s failure to act on the preventable deaths of migrant farmworkers.
The complaint will be filed by Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW), a grassroots political organization with more than 20 years of organizing experience.
“What we’re s
Migrant farmworker advocates have alerted Prime Minister Mark Carney that they will be submitting a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee in December to mark International Migrant’s Day. The complaint will highlight what advocates say is the government’s failure to act on the preventable deaths of migrant farmworkers.
The complaint will be filed by Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW), a grassroots political organization with more than 20 years of organizing experience.
“What we’re seeing is that agricultural work, by design, is violent, dangerous, dehumanizing and it’s dirty,” Chris Ramsaroop, an longtime J4MW organizer, . “Structurally, we create workplaces such as agriculture where people’s lives – particularly racialized workers – are not valued. We want to shed a light on this.”
The International Labour Organization (ILO) classifies agriculture work as one of the world’s most dangerous occupations. Workers are exposed to agrochemicals and can also sustain injuries when handling heavy machinery. The ILO estimates that 170,000 people working in agriculture die each year.
These risks paired with Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), which has been called a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, and has left migrant agricultural workers especially vulnerable to injury and death. On top of the common risks associated with carrying out agricultural work, migrant farmworkers also deal with high levels of anxiety and
stress due to family separation, unsafe and abusive workplace and precarity of their low-wage employment and immigration status.
“Racism and white supremacy are central to the creation of these programs,” Ramsaroop said. “In the 60s, when it came to talking about labor shortages, politicians were championing freedom, dignity and respect. They spoke about how they couldn’t have controlled, contained or contracted labor when it came time for white Europeans. We had no qualms whatsoever about creating these conditions, first for black workers from Jamaica and then for workers from across the world.”
J4MW wrote in their letter to the Prime Minister’s office that they will continue to demand inquests in migrant farmworker deaths, call for investigations and fight for justice.
“We refuse to accept a system where indentured servitude is not merely a legacy but a clear and proud practice across this country,” the organization wrote in their letter.
The Prime Minister’s office received rabble.ca’s request for comment but was unable to respond before deadline.
Ramsaroop said he has felt unimpressed with past responses from the government to J4MW’s complaints.
“These are template responses and and there hasn’t been any real changes,” he said. “It’s not just that the government refuses to act. The government very much supports the agricultural industrial complex.”
He said he hopes this complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee will push the government to finally take the action needed.
“Historically, progressives have failed and have fallen to the tropes of white supremacy,” Ramsaroop added. “At this moment, while we’re calling for changes, it’s about ensuring that people have the ability to come as free and equal. Just because they’re from the Global South, just because they’re racialized, doesn’t mean they should be facing a certain differential and very racist set of exclusions.”
The Trump administration is hypocritical when it accuses Canada and many other countries of failing to do enough to end forced and child labour around the world.
Such abuse is not a trivial matter.
Canadians should remember the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, home to five large garment factories, which supplied cheap goods to companies in the West.
Over 1,100 people died and more than 2,500 were injured in that event. Many of them were garment workers, and some
The Trump administration is hypocritical when it accuses Canada and many other countries of failing to do enough to end forced and child labour around the world.
Such abuse is not a trivial matter.
Canadians should remember the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, home to five large garment factories, which supplied cheap goods to companies in the West.
Over 1,100 people died and more than 2,500 were injured in that event. Many of them were garment workers, and some produced clothing for Canadian companies, including Loblaw subsidiary Joe Fresh.
That was an abusive situation which rose to the level of an international scandal.
But daily, beyond the headlines, many thousands of involuntary workers produce all or parts of goods we consume, in miserable and sometimes dangerous conditions.
The use of prisoners, political and otherwise, in international supply chains is routine in parts of the world (including the U.S.).
This writer has observed children painstakingly making carpets by hand in Egypt and India. That sort of labour is, at least, relatively safe, something we could not say about all child or forced labour.
In its most recent reporting, UNICEF relates that there are over 138 million child labourers in the world.
In one country alone, the West African nation of Sierra Leone, UNICEF reports “almost 1 in 5 children are engaged in child labour.”
“Child labour compromises children’s education, limiting future opportunities and perpetuating an inter-generational cycle of deprivation.”
And so, the U.S. administration is not off-base in drawing the world’s attention to the scandal of forced and child labour.
However, the Trump government’s real motive is not to achieve justice; it is to find a legal way for the U.S. executive branch to bypass Congress and impose tariffs on goods from many countries, including Canada.
The U.S. constitution clearly assigns the power to levy tariffs to the legislative branch, to Congress, not to the President.
An earlier effort denied by courts
Early in his current term Trump tried to use the 1974 U.S. International Economic Emergency Act (IEEA) as a fig leaf for his unconstitutional tariffs.
That was a big stretch, in part because the IEEA never even mentions the word tariff. When Congress passed that IEEA it did not foresee tariffs as one of the arrows in the president’s quiver in the event of an economic emergency.
Lower courts ruled the U.S President’s invocation of the IEEA to be entirely unfounded.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which is normally highly deferential to Trump, upheld those rulings, rendering Trump’s tariffs based on the IEEA null and void.
And so, Donald Trump and his advisors have come up with another loophole to enable them to impose tariffs without Congressional agreement: the forced labour issue.
It is hard to believe the current U.S. President cares a whit about forced labour.
In fact, Trump’s administration has trashed the entire U.S. foreign policy and foreign aid establishment, which, in theory, could have had the expertise to monitor and document the prevalence of what is, in essence, modern-day slavery.
Shortly after assuming office, Trump cut 69 U.S. programs that deal with child labour.
Last year, in 2025, the U.S.-based Economic Policy Institute reported on the current U.S. Labour Department’s cuts to programs that fight international human trafficking and promote labour rights.
Those cuts, says the Institute, “undermine the U.S.‘s ability to monitor foreign governments’ compliance with U.S. trade agreements, and ensure that U.S. workers will compete on an uneven international playing field, fueling a race to the bottom in the global economy.”
On June 2 of this year, in announcing the new U.S. tariffs based on forced labour in supply chains, Trump’s trade representative Jamieson Greer used almost the exact same words as did the Economic Policy Institute a year earlier.
But Greer wasn’t issuing a mea culpa for his own country. He was accusing other countries of tolerating labour abuses, as an excuse for imposing illegal tariffs on them:
“The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable. This creates a dynamic where American workers are forced to compete globally on an unlevel playing field”
Evidently a sense of irony is a quality in short supply in the current U.S. administration.
The U.S. judicial system will no doubt have its chance to rule on this ploy.
In all likelihood, the courts will find it to be as disingenuous as Trump’s earlier effort to invoke the IEEA as justification for tariffs.
But even if the motives for Greer’s accusation are monumentally dishonest, sadly they ring true when it comes to many countries, including Canada.
A weak law and vague reporting system
The federal New Democrats foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson has pointed out that “Canada has lagged on measures to make sure there is not forced or child labour in supply chains for decades, while other governments have acted.”
And the Edmonton MP has added: “Past Liberal governments repeatedly promised mandatory supply chain due diligence legislation and never delivered on it.”
But advocates and experts all say the legislation is ineffective.
The 2023 law includes a reporting requirement. Corporations have to report annually on their due diligence concerning forced and child labour in their supply chains – chains which sometimes stretch around the world.
Anyone can look up the reports. There are over 12,000 of them for 2025, from corporations and from other organizations. They are all available online .
If you do look, you will find numerous reports from giant Canadian and foreign companies, such as Bombardier, Loblaw, Carhatt, Levi Strauss, Walmart, Winners, and Lacoste.
Plus, there are thousands of reports from government departments and agencies, and many small and medium sized operations, such as the Pincher Creek Cooperative Association.
Sadly, all of that verbiage amounts to rather little.
One characteristic of almost all 12,000 plus reports is a high level of generality.
The more than 12,000 reports almost all make a rhetorical commitment to the principles of various conventions banning modern-day slavery.
And almost all state, in a high-level fashion, the companies’ or organizations’ commitments – via training, information sharing, audits and monitoring – to faithfully uphold those principles.
But virtually none of the reports include very much in the way of facts and figures. Many do not even list all the countries that are part of their supply chains.
To cite just one example, the multinational fashion corporation Lacoste tells us it produces and sells over 50 million items a year. Those items include clothing, footwear and accessories, and account for sales of 2.8 billion euros, or about 4.5 billion Canadian dollars.
Lacoste says it employs more than 8,500 people in 98 (!) countries. But its report does not specify whether those are directly employed or through suppliers. Nor does it name the countries.
The report says Lacoste has a supply chain of more than 1,200 factories worldwide. Those factories specialize in everything from raw material processing to final production of garments.
And there you have it.
Those few numbers are pretty much the only tangible facts and figures in the Lacoste report. The rest of it consists of bland and platitudinous statements about audits, compliance, assessing, and monitoring, with nary a tangible detail.
We have to take it all on faith.
The only specific references in the Lacoste report to anything resembling a problem or pattern of abuse concern the production of cotton and what the report vaguely calls an “alert” concerning suppliers in Vietnam.
Lacoste says it resolved the cotton issue by limiting its suppliers to six countries, among them the U.S., Greece and Spain.
As for the Vietnam situation, Lacoste reports that when it received the (non-specific) complaint it hired the consulting firm Ulula to investigate.
Lacoste’s report does not tell us what Ulula has been investigating or what the investigation has turned up so far. Nor does it list any other action in response to the Vietnam complaint.
So much for transparency. And Lacoste is typical in this regard. Read as many of the reports as you can and see for yourself.
Although the 2023 Canadian legislation requires organizations and corporations to make available some sort of annual report on forced and child labour, it does not require much else.
It is up to companies and organizations to decide what details they will put in their reports, and with how much precision.
It is in no corporation’s interest to divulge any information that could damage its reputation or have an impact on its bottom line. In this case, the government of Canada is getting what it asks for – which is not much.
There are provisions in the 2023 Canadian law for inspections. And the government can even impose sanctions on companies and organizations that allow child and forced labour in their supply chains.
To date, the government has not provided any information on any inspections its officials might have conducted, and, so far, no sanctions have been imposed on any company or other entity.
Heather McPherson wants to outlaw the targets of her private member’s bill. She refers to them politely as “employer influenced unions.” Many workers know these repellent bodies as “yellow dog unions,” ugly creatures that pretend to be unions but put most of their energy into helping employers, often against the interests of the actual workers they purportedly represent. Think Colonel Sanders claiming he can negotiate on behalf of the chickens or Dracula acting as a blood donor broker.
Unsurpr
Heather McPherson wants to outlaw the targets of her private member’s bill. She refers to them politely as “employer influenced unions.” Many workers know these repellent bodies as “yellow dog unions,” ugly creatures that pretend to be unions but put most of their energy into helping employers, often against the interests of the actual workers they purportedly represent. Think Colonel Sanders claiming he can negotiate on behalf of the chickens or Dracula acting as a blood donor broker.
Unsurprisingly, the head of one of the unions that McPherson singled out for criticism, the Christian Labour Association of Canada, (CLAC) founded in 1952, objected to the proposed legislation. Wayne Prins, CLAC’s Executive Director, said “Nothing in this bill advances the interests of everyday working Canadians, and nothing in it provides protections that don’t already exist in every labour code in Canada……McPherson’s comments are a desperate attempt to garner favour with rival unions to CLAC, and they expose a remarkable lack of understanding of real labour relations in Canada.”
Speaking of lack of understanding of Canadian labour relations, it is worth noting that CLAC’s understanding of labour relations led them within living memory to form a lobbying alliance in BC with the Progressive Contractors Association, the Independent Contractors and Business Associations, the BC Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Canada West Construction Union (CWCU). With the exception of the CWCU, which appears to be closely aligned with CLAC, these are all employer side organizations. I guess the folks at CLAC haven’t got the memo yet about being judged by the company you keep.
On June 4, McPherson’s bill had its first hour of debate, with a second hour slated for October. To those of us who see CLAC as the prime example of yellow dog unionism in Canada, seems like a glacially slow time line, but private members bills (proposed by MPs who are not cabinet members or cabinet secretaries) are often slow to move, often taking several years to be resolved, and in many cases they are where good intentions go to die in Ottawa.
One of the speakers scheduled to speak at the June 4 press conference being held to mark the first hour of debate on the McPherson bill, is BC heavy equipment operator and human rights advocate Mike Pearson. Pearson’s advocacy for a family whose son, Sam Fitzpatrick, died because of management recklessness in 2009 at a Peter Kiewit Sons ULC construction site at Toba Inlet in BC, where workers allegedly were represented by CLAC, gave him his own reasons to oppose the pseudo union. Pearson is outraged that CLAC wrote a letter of support for the multinational construction firm when BC’s Worksafe BC issued a then-record fine against the lethal employer, claiming that Kiewit had a “prior demonstrated commitment to safety.”
This is a questionable claim, given how often Kiewit has been cited in worker deaths, injuries and shoddy workmanship at its projects (see my Tyee story linked above.) With CLAC support, Kiewit got the reduced fine it sought, in what many observers, including this one, saw as an insulting-to-workers slap on the wrist.
Despite this reduced fine, Worksafe noted “In these circumstances, we would describe it as ‘heedless,’ ‘wanton,’ ‘extreme,’ ‘gross,’ and ‘highly irresponsible’ for the employer to have known that there was a potential for rocks to roll through the worksite but not take adequate steps to contain this risk by way of a detailed and carefully monitored scaling program.”
“My task is to laser focus on the CLAC supporting a smaller fine for the American corporation, rather than advocating for the dues paying (now dead) worker. I’m not here for the politics, I’m doing this to further support worker safety and rights on the jobsite,” Pearson told me in a recent email.
(Full disclosure, I spent years covering the Fitzpatrick death and Worksafe BC’s fine reduction and through that reporting came to know and respect Pearson) I am not a neutral on this topic, or on the question of CLAC’s dubious legitimacy.
Neither are spokespeople for organized labour in Canada and abroad. CLAC, which currently claims to represent over 60,000 Canadian workers (https://www.clac.ca/About-us) was suspended from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in 2011 and does not belong to Canadian labour bodies like the Canadian Labour Congress, which hailed McPherson’s bill in a January social media post that read:
“We applaud @heathermacnow for introducing Bill C-259, the Fair Representation Act, taking on employer-dominated “company unions” and standing up for real collective bargaining
This bill gives the Canada Industrial Relations Board stronger tools to protect workers’ right to independent, democratic unions Canada’s Unions supports this bill because workers deserve a real voice and real power on the job.”
Avi Lewis, the newly elected NDP leader, has voiced his support for this initiative, saying “Workers fought for generations to build strong, independent unions. Those gains shouldn’t be taken for granted. Protecting union independence means protecting workers’ ability to stand together and fight for better wages, safer workplaces, and more dignity on the job.”
Heather McPherson has called on every member of Parliament who claims to support labour rights and worker safety to support her bill. She told the Tyee at the end of 2025:
“One of the things I like best about the anti-CLAC legislation is, if Pierre Poilievre really wants to show himself as being opposed to company unions, if he’s really on it for the side of workers, his folks will support that bill. Otherwise, his cards are on the table and it’ll be pretty clear that’s not who he’s here for.”
In my view, that goes for every MP, not just the Poilievre posse. I urge every reader to let their MP know you want them to support this bill, and get your union local, labour council, faith group, book or bowling club to tell Parliament that bill C-259 should be passed and implemented. Some people are worried, too often rightly these days, about the phenomenon of “fake news.” We should also beware of “fake unions”.
Prime minister announces ban, saying social media is making children unhappy and unsafeSocial media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announcesStarmer acknowledges some teenagers will get round these restrictons. But that does not make the rules pointless, he says.Will it mean that no child ever looks at social media again? No.But look, this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock parents of teenagers; they get around other laws too.Some technology companies want us to think that social me
The NDP introduced a private member’s bill on Monday that aimed to include management in anti-scab legislation. Bill C-248 is meant to close a loophole in Canada’s anti-scab laws that workers say has already been exploited by at least one employer.
The Canada Labour Code currently prohibits the employer from using services from any employee whose regular workplace is different from the one where a strike or lockout is taking place. The current language of the law means employers can transfe
The NDP introduced a private member’s bill on Monday that aimed to include management in anti-scab legislation. Bill C-248 is meant to close a loophole in Canada’s anti-scab laws that workers say has already been exploited by at least one employer.
The Canada Labour Code currently prohibits the employer from using services from any employee whose regular workplace is different from the one where a strike or lockout is taking place. The current language of the law means employers can transfer management from other workplaces to perform the duties of workers who are locked out or on strike.
“That is not what the anti-scab legislation was intended to allow,” said NDP leader Avi Lewis. “It flies directly in the face of the law and the spirit of it, and it’s exactly why the loophole we’re addressing today must be closed.”
The loophole in the anti-scab legislation has already been used by Rogers Communications, according to the United Steelworkers. During a labour dispute in Abbotsford, workers represented by USW 1944 went on strike to fight for wages that matched what other workers in the profession made in the area. Rogers brought in out-of-town managers to cross the picket line.
“The strike lasted far too long,” said Michael Philips, president of USW local 1944. “It was prolonged by this loophole and by the company being able to use scabs to replace workers.”
Philips highlighted that the use of scab labour has also soured relationships at work for the foreseeable future. Striking workers watched the company bring in replacement labour while they fought for fair wages, then had to return to the workplace and work under people who undermined their strike.
“I’m not sure if employers understand the degree to which their own workplace culture is devastated when they use scabs in this way,” Philips said. “I think they’re probably getting the idea now after a few months of having folks back on all the tools, and you know, the morale situation that exists in Abbotsford.”
Marty Warren, USW national director for Canada said the low morale in Abbotsford further highlights why strong anti-scab legislation must exist. When employers go down the path of using scabs, it can harm labour relationships for generations. These toxic dynamics can be avoided when a deal is reached at the table.
Fighting for free and fair collective bargaining is key to ensuring healthy labour relations persist.
“A law designed to protect the right to strike that allows employers to bypass it is not strong enough, and must be fixed,” Warren said. “If employers can keep operations running by shifting work outside the bargaining unit, workers’ leverage is weakened and disputes go on and on and on. That’s bad for workers, families, and their communities. Any scab legislation must be clear, enforceable, and strong enough to protect the integrity of collective bargaining.”
NDP labour critic, Don Davies, framed this bill as a continuation of the NDP’s fight to bolster workers’ rights. He highlighted that this bill comes after Leah Gazan introduced a bill to remove section 107 from the labour code and after Heather McPherson introduced a bill that would prohibit employer-friendly unions.
“I’m very proud of my caucus colleagues, as this is the third consecutive week in a row that we have introduced legislation to strengthen unions in Canada and also to support workers,” he said.
Thousands attend CLC convention in Winnipeg. Comments by the leaders of the CLC, USW, PSAC, and UFCW plus NDP federal leader Avi Lewis. The LabourStart Report about union events. And Larry Rousseau singing “It’s a Wonderful World.”
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Thousands attend CLC convention in Winnipeg. Comments by the leaders of the CLC, USW, PSAC, and UFCW plus NDP federal leader Avi Lewis. The LabourStart Report about union events. And Larry Rousseau singing “It’s a Wonderful World.”
RadioLabour is the international labour movement’s radio service. It reports on labour union events around the world with a focus on unions in the developing world. It partners with rabble to provide coverage of news of interest to Canadian workers.
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