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Epic struggle at Petro Canada secures national bargaining in energy sector
Workers at the Montreal Petro Canada refinery have voted 94.6% to accept a new collective agreement to end a 13 month lockout fought over the future of national pattern bargaining in Canada’s oil, gas and petrochemical industries. (More)
Tentative agreement at Petro-Canada
Montreal (December 19 2008) – In the presence of special mediator Lucien Bouchard and Labour department conciliator Robert Dupuis, Local175 of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union and Petro-Canada reached a tentative settlement for the renewal of the collective labour agreement at the Montreal East refinery. (More)
Tell your MP to stop the spiral!
The current economic crisis requires a massive economic stimulus and job creation package that provides immediate relief to Canadians who are experiencing job and income loss, strengthens and builds infrastructure, and protects forestry and manufacturing jobs and communities.
“We absolutely must see these initiatives in the upcoming federal budget,” says CEP President Dave Coles. Click here to get a message to your Member of Parliament now.
Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Today we are celebrating a milestone – the 60th Anniversary of the University Declaration of Human Rights. Each December 10, the world remembers the extraordinary accomplishment on that day in 1948 when all the nations came together in Paris to sign the University Declaration of Human Rights. (More)
More forest closures: "The house is on fire and the firefighters are walking away"
OTTAWA (Dec. 4, 2008) -- "The pulp and paper mill closures and temporary shutdowns announced today by Abitibi-Bowater are further proof that the economy needs to be priority number one for Canada," says CEP President Dave Coles. "I am totally outraged that Parliament will be prorogued and that a Prime Minister who has served the country so badly in this time of crisis is allowed to walk away and continue his political games."
"The house is on fire and the firefighters have just been told to take a holiday," says Coles. Forestry workers need action now, not two months from now. We simply cannot afford to put this economic crisis on hold. For forestry workers and their families, these are desperate times." (More)
Forest sector needs coalition: union
OTTAWA (Dec. 2, 2008) – The president of Canada’s largest forestry union has endorsed the economic stimulus program for forestry and manufacturing proposed by the Liberal-NDP Coalition with the support of the Bloc Quebecois.
“We are fully supporting the coalition because it addresses longstanding problems in the forest and manufacturing sectors, which the Conservatives have ignored,” said CEP President Dave Coles.
The “policy framework” proposed by the three parties says:
‘The top priority of the new Government is an economic stimulus package designed to boost the domestic economy... Investing in key sector strategies (like manufacturing, forestry and automotive) designed to create and save jobs, with any aid contingent on a plan to transform these industries and return them to profitability and sustainability.’
“This is exactly what we need to hear in the forest and manufacturing sectors,” said Coles. (More)
Click here to read the complete accord and policy framework
MAJORITY COALITION NOW!
OTTAWA (December 1, 2008) – Canada is facing a global economic crisis. Canadian workers are worried about their jobs, their pensions and their futures. Thousands of forestry and manufacturing workers face unemployment. Hundreds of communities face devastation. (More)
 December 6, 2008, a day we never will or should forget
By Dave Coles
On December 6, 1989, a deranged Marc Lépine entered l’École Polytechnique in Montréal. After segregating the female students from the men, he began firing at the female engineering students, killing 14. They died because they were women. (More)
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