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Ken Lewenza

Canada, Prepare For More Labour Trouble In 2013

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - After nearly a year of searching for a job close to home, welder Garnet Cooke is preparing to leave family behind and follow the trail blaz...

DEAL

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The Canadian Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler on Wednesday, signalling a successful culmination of labour nego...

Rachel Mendleson

Future Of Canada's Unions At Stake In Auto Talks

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 09.14.2012 | Canada Business

One of the most intense rounds of auto-sector contracts talks in recent memory could become a defining moment in the struggle of Canada’s labour mov...

CAW, Automakers Gear Up For Labour Showdown

CP | Alexandra Posadzki, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.14.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The Canadian Auto Workers said it doesn't expect to regain all of the concessions it made when automakers were struggling during the recessi...

Auto Workers Take Fight With Carmakers Public

CBC | Posted 06.10.2012 | Canada Business

The Canadian Auto Workers union heads into contract negotiations with the Detroit Three automakers this summer. Leading up to...

Electro-Motive Saga Draws To Close With Workers Taking Severance Deal

CP | Posted 02.23.2012 | Canada Business

LONDON, Ont. -- Unionized workers at Electro-Motive Canada have overwhelmingly ratified a closeout deal that gives them richer-than-required severance...

Did Caterpillar Break Investment Rules Over Plant It Shuttered?

CP | Posted 02.10.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO -- The head of the Canadian Auto Workers union is accusing Caterpillar Inc. of not following the rules in its 2010 takeover of a London, Ont. ...

CAW: Tough Year Ahead For Canada's Unions

CP | Craig Wong, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.04.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Lockouts at two major industrial plants in central Canada — an Alcan smelter in Quebec and a locomotive plant in London, Ont. — may signa...

Air Canada Won't Challenge Arbitrator's Ruling

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.25.2011 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - Air Canada is withdrawing its court challenge of an arbitrator's ruling on a key pension deal with the union representing its service worke...

Rachel Mendleson

Is Ottawa To Blame For Rejection Of Air Canada Deal?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Business

UPDATE IV: CUPE has confirmed that flight attendants will not be going on strike tonight. According to the union, the Canadian Industrial Relations Bo...

CAW Head Backs Merger Between NDP And Liberals

CBC | Posted 11.02.2011 | Canada Politics

A merger between the NDP and Liberal Party is the only way for them to form a government, the head of the Canadian Autoworkers union says...

New Air Canada Contract Ratified

The Canadian Press | Posted 08.27.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- Air Canada's customer service and airport workers have voted 87.7 per cent in favour of a new collective agreement reached under...

Talks Grounded As Back-To-Work Order Looms

Posted 08.16.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- TORONTO -- Despite the looming threat of back-to-work legislation, Air Canada and the union representing thousands of its striki...