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@UniforTheUnion
Unifor
3 years
VIDEO: Meet the 2021 O'Toole: This election @ErinOToole is ready to take Canada in the wrong direction. @CPC_HQ policies mean more cuts and cash to big corporations over Canada's workers. He’s just the same old Conservative. Meet the 2021 O'Toole:
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WATCH the @SuperBowl commercial @GM is trying to stop from airing tonight. Unifor will not be intimidated by #GreedyMotors in our fight to #SaveOshawaGM #BoycottMexicoGM vehicles with VINs starting with 3. MEDIA RELEASE: #canlab
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@UniforTheUnion
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A message for @fordnation , from @Lanampayne as she and @NaureenRizvi1 addressed @osbcucscso today, “This is an unprecedented attack against workers rights and trade union freedoms, and what you’re going to see is an unprecedented response.” #Unifor #CUPESolidarity
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@UniforTheUnion
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1 year
#Unifor 's Auto Council & IPS Council call on @fordnation to rescind #notwithstandingclause legislation that attacks workers' right to free and fair collective bargaining and the right to strike. #39kIsNotEnough #onpoli @CUPEOntario #canlab
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@UniforTheUnion
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2 years
#Unifor National President @Lanampayne sends a message of support to @osbcucscso #oned workers. The @fordnation gov’t use of the #notwithstandingclause is an “attack on every worker in the province and every worker in the country.” #canlab #39kIsNotEnough
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@UniforTheUnion
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1 year
Ontario’s five largest health care unions have joined forces, issuing an SOS appeal to Ontario Premier @fordnation & Health Minister Sylvia Jones: your plan is failing– take action & adopt our solutions to stabilize Ontario’s crashing health care system today. #onpoli #onhealth
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@UniforTheUnion
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5 years
If @AndrewScheer doesn’t understand the connection between a strong media and its role in preserving our democracy then he is unfit to lead.
@AndrewScheer
Andrew Scheer
5 years
Here's the ‘independent’ group Justin Trudeau has appointed to help decide how $600 million of taxpayer dollars will be spent on election-year media bailouts. If Trudeau is so worried about election interference, he can start by kicking Unifor off this panel.
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9 months
3,700 Metro workers are on strike for their fair share of Metro's record profits. This is history in the making. Grocery store workers are bravely taking a stand again corporate greed.
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Unifor’s @Lanampayne and @NaureenRizvi1 announce the union’s $100,000 donation to help @cupenat @osbcucscso cover fines and fight back against the Ontario government’s strikebreaking law. #Unifor #CUPE
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2 years
Unifor is urging all federal parties to condemn the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as protestors continue to deny workers access to their jobs & threaten the economic security of thousands. Read Unifor’s statement here: #canlab
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@UniforTheUnion
Unifor
8 months
We'll be joining dozens of peaceful rallies across the province tomorrow to stand up for and support queer and trans youth. Find an event near you:
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@UniforTheUnion
Unifor
8 months
We support queer and trans youth. Our union is fighting and organizing, every day, for the fundamental rights of all Canadians. We'll continue to combat hate with love, exclusion with inclusion, and judgment with wholehearted acceptance. In solidarity.
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Ontario court strikes down #Bill124 . @fordnation ’s wage restraint law unconstitutionally removed workers’ rights when the government imposed a 1% wage cap, even through the pandemic. Public sector workers need a raise, and Unifor will be seeking remedies for affected members.
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@UniforTheUnion
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3 years
MEDIA RELEASE: Unifor launches TV ad cautioning Canadians against voting for @erinotoole Meet the 2021 O’Toole: New Name. Same old Conservative. #canpoli
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@UniforTheUnion
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9 months
Record profits are unpaid wages.
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2 years
BREAKING: Lana Payne, @Lanampayne is elected as Unifor’s new National President! #UniforTogether #canlab #Unifor
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@UniforTheUnion
Unifor
4 years
. @ReginaPolice have arrested #Unifor members including National President @JerryPDias and @gavinmcgarrigle for peacefully standing up to the greedy @coopFCL at the legal picket line erected earlier this morning @CoopRefinery by @UniforTheUnion . #BoycottCoop
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Unifor
11 months
Premier Ford’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profits clinic puts the well-being of our citizens at risk. Purposefully underfunding health care has created a crisis. That’s why workers are fighting back. Read more:
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This Labour Day, thank a union for: 💰 minimum wage ⚕️ health & dental benefits ⏲️ overtime pay 👩‍👧 parental leave 🌴 paid vacations 📜 collective bargaining ☺️ breaks 🪙 raises 🤒 sick leave 🦺 safer workplaces 👷‍♀️ workers' rights and so much more.
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3 years
Hey @fordnation , look up! We are taking to the skies with a bold message for the Premier. Workers need permanent, adequate, and employer-paid sick days, now! #Unifor #PaidSickDays #onpoli
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3,700 members. 27 picket lines. 1 union. This is what worker power looks like. #MetroStrike
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9 months
Workers aren't to blame for the cost of food. Corporate greed and profiteering is. That's why 3,700 frontline grocery workers are taking a stand for their fair share of Metro's enormous profits.
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Unifor
5 years
Andrew Scheer will cost hard-working Canadians. Tax cuts to help the wealthy don’t raise wages. He has no real plan to deal with the cost-of-living crisis, housing affordability, or stagnant wages. #StopScheer #leadersdebate2019 #Unifor
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The cancellation of CTV News at noon and on weekends at the majority of @Bell owned CTV and CTV2 stations is a devastating blow to already diminished local news coverage. Cutting local stories hurts communities and our democracy. #savelocalnews #Bell
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5 years
Unifor’s National Executive Board started planning for the federal election today @AndrewScheer #canlab #canpoli
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4 years
Hey @GalenWestonJR meet Cherie, a cake decorator and single mom who works at your Dominion supermarket in NL. Please take 2 minutes to watch her message to you about why grocery workers @Unifor597 deserve #FairPayForever . Sign our petition
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9 months
Never forget that many of the workplace rights we enjoy today were won by unions. Things just didn’t just get better, we took collective action to make things better. Which is exactly what grocery store workers are doing right now.
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4 years
Stephen Lewis remembers a time when workers and the cooperative were one in the same, fighting for social justice. @CoopFCL has twisted and insulted that history through this lockout, but we won’t let them win. #Unifor #BoycottCoop #canlab
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Unifor
7 years
Today we mourn the loss of great union leader Bob White, founder of CAW, a founding Unifor union. We are here thanks to his work and vision
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1 year
Laura @waltonmom , President @osbcucscso announced that @cupenat received written confirmation that @fordnation will introduce and support legislation that would repeal Bill 28 in its entirely. Tomorrow, CUPE protest sites will be collapsed and workers are ready to bargain today.
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Unifor
4 years
Unifor transit workers announce a tentative agreement with Coast Mountain Bus Company #transitstrike
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2 years
#Unifor members from across the country send support from the union's education centre in Port Elgin to Ontario @osbcucscso education workers. #39kIsNotEnough @CUPEOntario
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Unifor is outraged about today’s announcement from @Bell (BCE Inc.) to cut 4,800 jobs – 9% of its workforce – affecting 800 of the union’s members, while deliberately putting shareholders ahead of workers with increased dividend payouts. #Bell
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Unifor
3 years
As Canadians face a third wave of #Covid19 with aggressive variants and potential lockdowns @erinotoole is talking about balancing budgets & spending cuts. Now is the time for bold investment to stimulate the economy – not Harper-like austerity & cuts to vital services. #cdnpoli
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Unifor
5 years
PM @JustinTrudeau addresses #unifor19 , recognizing that the labour movement deserves fairness and respect from government, "After all, to have a strong middle class, you have to have strong unions." #cdnpoli
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6 years
With the announcement by Wynne today it’s clear that in the #ONelexn we need to do whatever we can to stop the conservatives. The strategic vote to stop Ford from winning and to defend the rights of workers and families is to vote #NDP .
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Unifor
4 years
BREAKING: The bargaining committee of @Unifor594 reached a tentative agreement with the employer at the Co-op Refinery. Thank you to the Unifor members, and workers from across the country and around the world for your unwavering support. #Unifor #canlab
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Unifor
4 years
Unifor is asking labour activists across Canada to join our fight in Regina after several people were arrested, Including @JerryPDias on a peaceful picket line. "We will hold this line," says @lanampayne as as dozens more police show up @CoopRefinery . #canlab
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Unifor
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Today, Canadians united for an immediate, unconditional #ceasefire . We demand more than a humanitarian pause - but rather than a complete #ceasefirenow . Our elected politicians must demonstrate bravery and lead towards peace! #cdnpoli #canlab
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Unifor
4 years
BREAKING: @JerryPDias announces a $1.3 billion investment that will reopen the GM #Oshawa plant. #canlab #cdnpoli #Autotalks2020
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Unifor
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This election, stand with Canada’s workers Pledge your vote to #StopScheer .
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You know the system is stacked against workers when a company like @CoopFCL can: 1-Set up scab housing 2-Helicopter scabs 3-Lock out workers 4-Pretend to bargain 5-Get police to do dirty work says @Lanampayne @Unifor594
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Unifor
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Unifor's Ontario Regional Director, Samia Hashi, joins members and staff at today's No Space for Hate peaceful rally at Queen's Park in Toronto. We joined dozens of rallies across the province and country today to proudly show our unwavering support for queer and trans youth.
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Unifor has reached a tentative agreement with Ford Motor Company. Read our full update here:
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Unifor
9 months
We're still waiting for an acceptable offer from Metro. 3,700 frontline grocery workers simply deserve better. Workers cannot accept a deal that leaves them scrambling to afford food and rent.
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Unifor
5 years
The buzzers are sounding in the Oshawa Assembly Plant tonight because the line is down. Workers are protesting @GM and it’s betrayal of Canadian workers and consumers after it rejected Unifor’s proposed solutions to #SaveOshawaGM today. #canlab
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Hundreds of Metro workers and supporters have set up round-the-clock secondary picket lines outside of Metro’s distribution warehouses. Frontline grocery workers are demanding that Metro return to the bargaining table with a serious wage offer. #canlab #unifor #onpoli
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Unifor
3 years
#Unifor mourns the tragic death of 19-yr old Yassin Dabeh, who died of #COVID19 after working as a cleaner at an Ontario long-term care home.
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Unifor stands in solidarity with 155,000 members from @psac_afpc , who are on strike across the country. See our local unions show Unifor support on PSAC picket lines in solidarity with our brothers, sisters and friends at that union.
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Unifor
5 years
If @GM expects Canadian consumers to remain loyal to GM, they need to be loyal to @GMCanada workers and keep building vehicles in #Oshawa . Media release: #SaveOshawaGM #CanLab #sellherebuildhere
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Private delivery of public services makes the services worse and transfers public money into private profits. Stop and reverse healthcare privatization. @fordnation @sylviajonesMPP #handsoffhealthcare #ontarioisnotforsale
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Unifor
4 years
We can fence if we want to. #SafetyFence #BoycottCoop #Unifor
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Unifor
6 years
Crossing a picket line hurts families. As Unifor Local 597 members enter month 21, locked out in Gander, meet some of the scabs D-J Composites has hired to do their work. #canlab #nlpoli
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Unifor
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Thank you @maritstiles , Leader of the @OntarioNDP , for your solidarity and leadership in our fight for fair wages. Your support means everything as frontline grocery workers take a brave stand against Canada’s grocery barons.
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Unifor
4 years
. @Unifor594 members have ratified a tentative agreement with Co-op Refinery, ending a six-month lockout of 730 workers by Federated Co-operatives Limited.
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Unifor
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Millions worldwide have been rallying for an Israel-Palestine ceasefire and to aid Gaza. Join the Pan-Canadian Day of Action for peace and unity this Sunday, November 12. Find your local action at . #CeasefireNow #Solidarity #cdnpoli
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Unifor
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Record profits due to wage suppression & the erosion of good jobs are nothing to be proud of. While the top 1% gets richer, and CEOs take in millions, workers are struggling. We should all be concerned. This is about quality jobs in Canada that pay decent, livable wages.
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Unifor
4 years
An historic day as Union leaders from across Canada representing millions of workers join Regina picket line to support locked out @Unifor594 members. #canlab WATCH THIS:
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Unifor
9 months
Metro's profits skyrocketed 26% this past quarter alone. Net earnings exceed $346,000,000. 3,700 frontline Metro grocery workers at 27 GTA stores are on strike for fair wages. It's time for workers to get their fair share of the Metro's record profits.
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Unifor
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This is the moment we’re in. Workers everywhere taking a brave action in our collective fight for decent wages and fairness. Grocery barons are cashing in while their frontline workers are using food banks. Enough is enough.
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1 year
#Unifor stands in solidarity with @ontarionurses at today’s rally to #supportnurses all across Ontario. Unifor’s @roxannedubois told the crowd of hundreds of nurses, workers and allies that the union is ready to defend our public health care system from the @fordnation government
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Strike is over at #Goderich salt mine after collective agreement is ratified. Thanks to the thousands who stood in solidarity with #Unifor Local 16-O to stop scabs. #canlab
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Unifor
9 months
Metro raked in $346 million in net profits this quarter, while their employees can barely afford to purchase food from the stores where they work. Our frontline grocery workers deserve better.
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Unifor
1 year
National President @Lanampayne speaking now at @cupenat media conference- Workers made it clear that they will not tolerate the weaponizing of the notwithstanding clause to strip people of their Charter rights. Unifor members were and are prepared to vigorously oppose this law.
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Unifor
4 years
"I’m saying @CoopFCL is wrong they should get back to the table. What’s really concerning is you have massively profitable company that is not willing to negotiate with the workers - that’s wrong," says @theJagmeetSingh . "I support the workers unequivocally. I stand with them."
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3 years
#Unifor reaches tentative agreement with @GMcanada for $1 billion investment to bring electric commercial van production to CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, ON.
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Workers in Metro Vancouver's Amazon facilities could become the first in Canada to enjoy the benefits of a union after Unifor announced plans to start a drive. #canlab #bclab
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8 months
One day longer, one day stronger. It’s time for our frontline grocery workers to receive their fair share of Metro’s historic profits.
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1 year
"Bill 124 helped create the staffing & health care crisis. The courts were clear that it is a violation of workers' constitutional rights. This government is not above the law. They need to accept this decision," @NaureenRizvi1 calls on @fordnation not to appeal #Bill124nomore
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8 months
Price gouging is to blame for food inflation.
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7 months
Priorities met! Pattern set. Congratulations. The ballots have been counted and Unifor members at @FordCanada have ratified a 3-year agreement that will see tremendous gains for autoworkers. #AutoTalks2023
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Ontario superior court strikes down @fordnation Bill 124. The court found that the law unconstitutionally removed workers’ rights. Today is a victory for all workers in #Ontario . #onpoli
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"I don’t need some suit from Saskatoon to tell me about Western Canadian values," locked out @Unifor594 refinery worker & farmer Ellen says about @CoopFCL CEO Scott Banda. "The callouses on my hands and the mud on my boots know more about working class than Banda ever will."
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9 months
Striking grocery workers’ fight for fair wages will move to round-the-clock secondary picket lines at Metro distribution warehouses in Toronto. More info to follow.
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#Unifor has joined the Coalition 4 Ceasefire Now to call for an immediate ceasefire to the escalating violence in Israel-Palestine and an end to the blockade of Gaza. #ceasefirenow #cdnpoli
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2 years
#Unifor rallied with unions from across Ontario in defence of free and fair collective bargaining & to denounce the unacceptable use of the #notwithstandingclause by @fordnation @Sflecce to strip @osbcucscso workers of their rights. View rally pics here:
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#Unifor members on strike at @GMCanada at Oshawa Assembly Complex, St. Catharines Powertrain Plant and Woodstock Parts Distribution Centre. #AutoTalks2023
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4 years
We’re here at Nathan Phillips Square to show @fordnation that slashing healthcare funding is unacceptable.
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4 years
Watch @Chrisatunifor live in St. John's as the @RNC_PoliceNL threaten to arrest Dominion workers on strike at their peaceful picket line. #canlab #cdnpoli #nlpoli #fairpayforever
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4 years
This morning we welcomed International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada president Rob Ashton and a delegation of ILWU affiliates to the lockout picket line at @CoopRefinery . Watch him talk about holding the line under any circumstances. #boycottcoop #skpoli #canlab
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#Unifor plans to aggressively fight back against @OmarAlghabra plan to privatize the VIA Rail corridor. The Canadian public didn't invest $1.5 billion in high-frequency rail only for you to sell it off. #GetCanadaBackOnTrack #cdnpoli
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#Unifor members standing strong on the picket line at Oshawa Assembly Plant. #solidarity
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Unifor calls on members to show solidarity with @cupenat education workers on the brink of bold strike action in Ontario. Here's how you can show your support for @osbcucscso #39kIsNotEnough #Unifor #onpoli
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4 years
#Unifor picket lines are back up and running after @reginapolice blocked access to several @CoopRefinery gates for most of the day and in a meanspirited move took away picketers' heating shelters in February. #Solidarity #SupportUnifor594
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Canadians gave @GM an $11 billion bailout. Now they want to betray us and move production to Mexico. Let's return the favour and #BoycottMexicoGM . Sign the pledge, visit #GreedyMotors #SaveOshawaGM #onpoli @GMcanada #NAIAS2019 #NAIAS
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NDP leader @theJagmeetSingh lent his support today to striking @windsorsalt workers. These #Unifor members are fighting back against demands by the company’s American owners to contract out their jobs. Thank you Jagmeet for standing against this attack on good paying jobs #canlab
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Powerful solidarity rally today, organized by @fairwagesnow & @WorkersAC , in support of Metro workers on strike for fair wages. Workers’ bravery to strike, despite living paycheque to paycheque, has inspired thousands. Workers deserve their fair share of record profits.
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Earlier today, Scott Banda, @CoopFCL CEO greeted and thanked a right-wing group whose members have openly planned and encouraged violence against locked-out refinery workers. #BoycottCoop #Unifor
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4 years
Meet the Westons, the billionaire bosses @loblawco are “royal family” of Canada’s 1%. Read why they really need that extra $2 an hour clawed back from low paid grocery workers after #COVID19 This is why 11 Dominion stores in NL are behind picket lines.
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Big thanks to @theJagmeetSingh for joining Metro workers on the picket line today. As grocery CEOs rake in record profits and food costs continue to skyrocket, we need all elected leaders to take a real stand for working people everywhere.
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