Support the right to strike
A little something about the right to strike, how good things happen when workers go on strike, and a call to support the six activists arrested and charged by Halifax police.
CUPW
Tony Tracy: Our rights are meaningless if not defended
Tony Tracy is one of the six labour activists who last night were arrested after picketing in support of the postal workers who were legislated back to work. This is what Tony posted on Facebook after his release from custody this afternoon.
Danny Cavanagh: Since when is it okay for government to break the law?
“Can we just race down the highway? Rob a bank? Steal from a store? Of course not. How then can the government pass legislation that is against our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?” Danny Cavanagh on legislating postal workers engaged in rotating strikes back to work.
Danny Cavanagh to Nova Scotia Members of Parliament: Get Canada Post back to the bargaining table
NS Federation of Labour president Danny Cavanagh on the forced ending of the postal workers rotating strikes: “I am shocked that our Liberal government has initiated back to work legislation for the workers at Canada Post. Remember that union members are your constituents.”
Halifax postal workers off the job again, but this time for longer than a day (updated)
Some 700 Canada Post workers, who provide mail service in the urban parts of HRM and from Lake Charlotte to Hubbards, walked off the job today. When I visited the picket line on Almon Street I assumed that the job action would be part of a series of rotating one-day strikes across Canada. That’s not the case, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers strike action in the Nova Local that began on Monday, November 12, 2018 at 8:00 pm will continue until further notice, a media release announces. I updated the article to reflect that change.
Media release: CUPW Nova Local off the job in rotating strike
The Nova Local postal workers are back on the picket line as of 8 PM tonight, Monday, November 12. Rotating strikes continue as little progress is made at the bargaining table.
Judy Haiven: On the line with CUPW
Frequent contributor Judy Haiven joined the striking postal workers on the Almon Street picket line for a bit this morning. CUPW’s fight for just wages, better benefits, pay equity, safe work and against bullying in the workplace helps us all, she writes.
What a Canada Post strike is all about (updated)
Canada Post retail clerk and union activist Mike Keefe explains why the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is calling for rotating strikes as early as Monday October 22.
Letter from a postal worker: A better Canada Post for everyone
Whether it’s postal banking, grocery delivery, affordable broadband internet access in communities that currently lack it, and postal-worker check in on seniors so that they can live longer in their own homes, postal workers have been pushing for better postal services for everyone, writes postal worker Mike Keefe.
Weekend video: Gary Borden, the first Black postman in New Waterford, Nova Scotia
Nothing earth shattering. Just a very nice video. Check it out, it’s weekend, you’re allowed to waste five minutes.