Update: Toronto CUPE Strike Supense

Update 2: Add to the Insult, Macleans Magazine's Cover feature Mayor Miller in a garbage can with a banana peel with raccoons all around him.  That adds to more insult to the city and brownie point to the unions.  Yikes, now we know who Maclean sided with!Update:...

Windsor, Ontario Going to Waste

July 30, 2009 The Transformation Has BegunMowing, or should I say, threshing and baling of the tall grass in city parks, as well as garbage and recycling pick up has begun. It will likely take a couple of weeks...

Homeground Pre-Olympics Festival "for Homeless & Underhoused"

For three days, from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 22,  Dunlevy St. between Cordova and Powell by Oppenheimer Park was blocked to traffic.  That was so the Homeground Winter Festival "for Homeless and Underhoused...

B.C. education assistants subsidize schools with thousands of unpaid hours

Vancouver Sun education reporter Janet Steffenhagen writes about a report that documents how education workers who support the most vulnerable students are often forced to work for free. "Special-education...

NDP Candidate Jenn McGinn is Mum on Donations from Alleged Secretary Abusers ...

Although "Get to Know Jenn McGinn" is the headline on the website of the NDP candidate in the current by-election in Vancouver-Fairview, it is not so easy to get to know her.  McGinn ignored a written request...

Over A Thousand Marched Toronto Streets Supporting The Aboriginal National Da...

At the end of a four-day rally at Queen's Park yesterday, hundreds of Natives and non-Natives packed up their tents, dismantled their teepees and proceeded to march through the busy downtown Toronto streets...

CUPE local 4500 ratification meeting with CMBC

Vancouver, BC.   May 21, 2008 By: tbphotos, NowPublic contributer Reporting from the scene Coast Mountain Bus Company and CUPE 4500, after seven months of negotiations, have reached a...

CUPE Continues To Lock Poor Out of Services in Vancouver

Canadian Union of Public Employees has been back to work at Carnegie Center on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for some time, but they continue to lock the poor out of services.These povertarians got themselves a...

VancouverIAM Daily Blog Report: Librarians are Back at Work, Vancouver Shoul...

This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from VancouverIAM where you will find the best blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia as well as video uploads, social networking, rumors, and blog authoring. Library Strike Finally Over Vancoouver Librarians are...

CUPE Returns: Blocks Poor From Accessing Computers at Carnegie Center

CUPE came back. Striking Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 15 members returned to work today at Carnegie Center in Vancouver. But they are not allowing the poor to return to work. CUPE members are blocking the poor from the public access computers inside Carnegie...

VancouverIAM Daily Blog Report: Pay equity to split COPE and Vision Vancouver...

This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from VancouverIAM where you will find the best blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia as well as video uploads, social networking, rumors, and blog...

Did CUPE use non-union Puppeteers ?

We really need some investigative journalism here.  Today CUPE staged a puppet show at Library Square.Mainstream media covered the obvious story. But did anyone think to ask - how many 'real' puppeteers where put out of work by having CUPE members perform in their...

Carnegie Learning Center Won't Open in Sept. Due To Strike

Lucy Alderson, Co-ordinator and teacher at the Carnegie Learning Center, sent out a mass e-mail last Thursday, August 30th:  "Hi, Everyone! Well, things are not looking good for re-opening the Learning Centre at the beginning of September.” The Learning Center is run...

Flood at Carnegie Center Last Evening

The basement of Carnegie Centre flooded last evening.  A patron says, "They kicked everybody out at 8:30."  Usually people are allowed to sit around in the building playing board games or talking until 11 p.m., although most services such as the library, computer...

City Mgr. Gets $48,000 Vacation Payout

City Manager Judy Rogers has "recently received a vacation payout of $48,000". That's according to the "Counterspin" page on the Fairness for Civic Workers website, funded by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.  It is also reported that last year Rogers earned...

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