Labour - Unions

February 12, 2020

January 16,2020.

This article was originally published in Our Times, a quarterly Canadian labour magazine.

February 3, 2020 

On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly operations by the end of 2019.

[Editor: Workers taking action on climate disruption in Australia]

On Monday 3 February Workers 4 Climate Justice (W4CJ) will hold a public meeting on the health impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

“Our country has extreme weather and natural events, we have extreme drought, dust storms, bush fires, floods and cyclones,” said W4CJ spokesperson, Amanda Ross.

January 24, 2020

JANUARY 19, 2020

National and regional governments in Germany have sealed the deal on a €40-billion (US$45-billion) plan to phase out coal by 2038 and fund a realistic transition for workers and communities that still depend on the industry.

12/31/19

Approximately 2,300 Google cafeteria workers who serve meals to employees in the San Francisco Bay area have unionized, claiming they are overworked and underpaid, Vox Recode reported Tuesday.

January 1, 2020