Showing posts with label business unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business unions. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Business Unionism Offers No Solution To Capitalist Crisis

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You know that the labour movement is no threat to Canadian Capitalism when it can agree with the bosses on a band aid to the current economi...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Concessions Don't Work

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Concession bargaining is always a defeat for workers, it never results in any real gains, and is always presented by the bosses as the alte...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Carpenters Union Defines Business Unionism

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Faced with corporatist labour management counsultants from CLAC who promote collaboration with Merit Shops (non-union open shops in constru...
Friday, October 19, 2007

AFL Demo Falls Flat On Its Face

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Ouch. Suppose we called a demonstration and no one came? The majority of the 15 workers that did show up were probably Wobblies who have be...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Steel Merger

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US Steel to buy Stelco for $1.1bn This was the merger the Steelworkers union was looking for. And how much it was facilitated by the USW P...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Boom and Bust

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While inflation in Alberta is 6% annually workers just get by whether unionized or those free riders in the Merit shops. Is it any wonder th...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Union M&A

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I raised this issue last week and Barrie McKenna in todays Globe and Mail questions Mergers and Acquisitions in the l...
Monday, April 30, 2007

AUPE Calls General Strike Over Safety

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The difference between business unionism and industrial unionism. Business unions are in the business of keeping business operating, indust...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

M&A in the Labour Movement

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M&A is Mergers and Acquisitions. Today this is the case between three of the worlds largest unions. This M&A in labour reflects the ...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Farmer John Exploits Mexican Workers

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Back in the early days of the IWW, Wobblies organized farm workers, since many workers in Canada and the U.S. found interim work on the farm...