Labour - Unions

New fisheries minister wades into fish politics, cutting herring harvest in half

18/12/21

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Rochelle Baker

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Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is cutting the commercial herring fishing allocation to 10 per cent, down from 20 per cent last year, to protect the valuable forage fish and threatened salmon. Photo courtesy of Fisheries Ministry

Dec. 16, 2021

In her first major decision, new federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has reduced the West Coast commercial herring fishery by half.

Wading into the thick of fish politics Thursday, Murray said the decision is based on an abundance of caution given herring are a critical food for endangered salmon stocks — further jeopardized by the double whammy of fire and floods in B.C. this year.

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How powerful is Big Oil? Just ask Regina city council

15/12/21

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Regina city hall in September 2019. Photo via Mateus S. Figueiredo / WikiMedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dec. 15, 2021

Nearly a year after the oil and gas industry squared off with Regina’s city council over a proposed amendment to ban fossil fuel companies from sponsoring city buildings or events, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives uncovers the playbook used to kill the motion.

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Seattle’s Capitalists Couldn’t Defeat Kshama Sawant

13/12/21

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Richard Silverstein

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Jacobin

Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant at Westlake Park, Seattle. 2017. (Genna Martin, / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Dec. 10, 2021

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'An Existential Attack on the Union': Biden Blasts Kellogg's Plan to Replace Striking Workers

13/12/21

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Jessica Corbett

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Common Dreams

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 5, 2021. (Photo: Win McNamee/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Biden moving left? Or is it just a PR maneuver? Gene McGuckin

Dec. 10, 2021

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Climate Disruption to Cost Billions for BC Highways

12/12/21

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Vaughn Palmer

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The Vancouver Sun

Road repairs are going around the clock at several sites, including these repairs to the Bottletop Bridge on Highway 5, the Coquihalla, where approaches at one end of the twin freeway bridge were wiped out by flooding caused by the Nov. 14-15 atmospheric river. PHOTO BY B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION /B.C. Ministry of Transportation

Nov. 11, 2021

Huge efforts underway to make temporary repairs to dozens of destroyed bridges and washouts, but designing and building better gets underway in earnest in 2022

VICTORIA — B.C. was still grappling with last month’s floods when the provincial government issued an invitation to construction and design firms to join in a plan to “build back better.”

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The Federal Sick Leave Plan Has Serious Design Flaws

10/12/21

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Adam D.K. King

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Passage

Dec. 10, 2021

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Kellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract

08/12/21

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Praveen Paramasivam

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Reuters

Union workers from Kellogg's gather with signs while they picket outside the cereal maker's headquarters as they remain on strike in Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S., October 21, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin

Dec 7, 2021

(Reuters) - Kellogg Co (K.N) said on Tuesday a majority of its U.S. cereal plant workers have voted against a new five-year contract, forcing it to hire permanent replacements as employees extend a strike that started more than two months ago.

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The Present in History, 2021

07/12/21

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William K. Tabb

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Monthly Review

Image credit: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with attendees at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa (August 10, 2019). Gage Skidmore, Flickr.

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Karl Marx observed that class struggle can create circumstances and relationships that make “it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.”1 Donald Trump can be viewed as one such grotesque mediocrity, inflated to “heroic” proportions by his reactionary followers. Unwilling to accept defeat, Trump attempted to seize power after losing the 2020 presidential election.

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Recall Campaign Against Socialist Kshama Sawant Is Backed by Billionaires

06/12/21

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Tyler Walicek

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Truthout

Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant speaks as demonstrators hold a rally outside of the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. DAVID RYDER / GETTY IMAGES

Dec. 5, 2021

An unusual special election in Seattle’s District 3 on December 7 will decide whether avowedly socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant will be recalled from her position. The fact that Sawant’s seat is under dire threat is indicative of the contempt that Seattle’s business interests hold for her and her policies: The considerable victories Sawant has won for working people have made her the target of some of Seattle’s most powerful forces.

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