Union Drive USA

"This law will be the New Deal of the 21st century if it is passed. Employee Free Choice Act Hearings Begin in Congress. But the right wing is mobilizing to oppose it. Click on link below to read the whole article"

AFL Lions eyeing the Kangaroos

A new rivalry is brewing in the AFL as the Kangaroos begin to muscle their way into the Lions' den in south-east Queensland. The Melbourne-based club will play 10 games on the Gold Coast over the next three seasons and the Lions are watching their new neighbours' every...

Harpers Most Dangerous Cabinet Minister

"The most important change in the Harper Cabinet shuffle, which was overlooked by the MSM , is the decision to put Monte Solberg in charge of HRDC. This is a logical step and a dangerous one for workers and the trade union movement in Canada."

In These Times [news]

News & Opinion.

Temp Workers For Timmies

"Rules eased for hiring foreign workers “It doesn’t matter whether you’re in Camrose or Calgary, Edson or Edmonton, ‘Help Wanted’ signs are everywhere,” Solberg said “And you know, when it starts to affect our ability to go to Tim...

Gomperism

Union Oberg backers buying Conservative memberships Tactics anger Dinning leadership campaign, labour federation The Alberta Building Trades Council, an umbrella group that includes 22 local unions, apparently plans to buy as many as 10,000 Tory memberships from the Oberg...

NDP Convention Transparency

Well if you have been watching the NDP Convention on CPAC, and who hasn't amongst us political bloggers left, centre and right, you will have seen a convention that failed to take advantage of TV to engage Canadians to be part of the debate.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network aligns with AFL-CIO

Immigration issue provides bond for once-opposed units.

Right To Work No Thanks

"Housefrau and editor of the Financial Post Diane Francis proposes Right To Work laws as a solution to the current labour shortage in Canada. "

Child Labour In Alberta

"AFL Posts List of Employers Using 12-14 year olds on Website"

Neil Waugh Moves Left

"Yep its true the right wing crumdgeon Neil Waugh,business columnist at the Edmonton Sun, has become the friend of the workingman and gasp building trades unions!"