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RailLine Volume 7, Issue 10

Members,

Your bargaining committees are wrapping up a critical week in this round of negotiations.

Together, we tabled common economics proposals for all three collective agreements, as well as non-common economics proposals for Local 100’s agreement 3 and the Council 4000’s Agreements 1 and 2.

The bargaining committees are being supported by Corey Vermey, Unifor’s Director of Pensions and Benefits. Brother Vermey assisted in a dedicated pensions meetings and sat across the table from the company concerning pensions and benefits.

Unifor urges all parties to support NDP’s new anti-scab bill

December 3, 2020

OTTAWA—Unifor is urging all members of parliament to support Canada’s workers and swiftly pass a private members bill introduced today by Scott Duvall, NDP MP for Hamilton Mountain, to ban employers in federally regulated sectors from hiring scabs during a legal strike or lockout.

Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Speak Out Against Layoff and Service Reduction

December 2, 2020

OTTAWA - Over the past three months, NAV Canada has announced their intention to close seven air traffic control towers and reduce the level of service at their respective airports. Additionally, NAV Canada has served the Union notice of their intent to further reduce the air traffic control workforce outside these units.

Global solidarity, shared responsibility. Unifor Statement on World AIDS Day 2020

Every year, on December 1, people around the world commemorate World AIDS Day. Unifor recognizes this day to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS, but to also recognize the importance of prevention of this epidemic and support for people living with HIV.

This year’s World AIDS Day comes in the midst of another global epidemic.

The public health response to these epidemics shows us how health is linked with class, human rights, gender, race, and other critical issues. 

Mark Zuckerberg's self-serving push for regulation

The debate over regulating Google and Facebook took an interesting turn recently, when prominent Canadian nationalist Richard Stursberg teamed up with Kevin Chan, Facebook’s lobbyist in Ottawa, to publish an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail that maps out a regulatory path for our federal government.

The fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been doing everything he can to resist regulation in Australia, is sending out his lackeys to push for regulation in Canada means he’s worried about what our government might do.

Information Bulletin #3

Sisters and Brothers,

As previously communicated, due to current government restrictions in the Toronto area, we have been forced to find an alternative location to begin negotiations with the Company. For the next three weeks your Bargaining Committee will be together at the National office in Ottawa and will begin negotiations with the Company via Zoom.

Unifor calls for additional transit security to enforce mask requirement

November 27, 2020 VANCOUVER – As British Columbia’s largest transit worker union, Unifor is calling for additional transit security resources to enforce COVID-19 mask requirements. “Insufficient transit security and police presence has put drivers in the dangerous position of dealing with passengers who refuse to comply with public health regulations that require masks onboard public busses,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias.

Member education push begins in Alberta

During a videoconference earlier this month, a wide cross-section of Unifor members in Alberta strategized about the relentless attack by premier...