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    Autoworkers rally at Oshawa GM headquarters to protest assembly plant closure

    By admin | January 23, 2019 | | 0 Comments

    Autoworkers are rallying outside General Motors Canada headquarters in Oshawa on Wednesday to protest the impending assembly plant closure.

    “Workers in Canada will not forgive GM if it continues with the plan to close the Oshawa Assembly Plant and decimate the wider community,” Jerry Dias, Unifor national president, said in a media release.

    “For more than 100 years this Oshawa has built and supported General Motors. Today’s actions by Unifor members send the message that GM must reverse the decision to close the plant.”

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    Save Oshawa GM

    By admin | December 14, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    The jobs of 2,200 Unifor members are on the line with thousands of additional spin off jobs at risk as General Motors (GM) announces restructuring with no product allocated to the Oshawa Assembly Plant past December, 2019. Unless this decision is reversed the plant, which has been manufacturing in Oshawa for 100 years, will close.

    Two U.S. assembly plants and two smaller U.S. transmission operations are also threatened but Oshawa will bear the brunt as it accounts for 45 per cent of the workers affected by the restructuring plans.

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    Unifors Dias says Trudeau willing to join fight to save GM Oshawa

    By admin | November 28, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    The head of the union representing General Motors Co. workers in Oshawa, Ont. is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do everything possible to save the assembly plant, warning that the U.S. automaker is heading for a complete divestment in Canada.

    GM is leaving Canada. Its only a matter of time, so we need to stop it today, Jerry Dias, Unifors national president, said in a press conference Tuesday after meeting with Trudeau and a number of federal ministers in Ottawa.

    This isnt a situation where you leave GM building one vehicle in Canada, and somehow this is going to end up beautiful at the end of the day.

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    Unifor deeply opposes Ontario PC vote to deny the existence of trans people

    By admin | November 20, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2018 /CNW/ – Unifor expresses grave concern following a vote by members of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party voicing support for the removal of gender identity from Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum.

    “This shameful resolution shows that Doug Ford would rather appease a small faction of his party than uphold the human rights of trans students in Ontario,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “Ford’s Government has already enacted this transphobia by repealing comprehensive sex ed.”

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    Ford Government fall economic statements fails to lift workers

    By admin | November 16, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    TORONTO, Nov, 15, 2018 /CNW/ – The Progressive Conservative’s fall economic update is a clear signal that austerity measures are coming to Ontario.

    “Doug Ford’s economic plan won’t lift Ontario working families out of poverty, it will take them back to the days of Mike Harris,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “Like Harris, Doug Ford is hiding austerity measures under the guise of efficiencies.”

    Today’s economic statement introduced the Low-income Families and Individuals Tax Credit which gives minimum wage workers a maximum tax benefit of $850 per year, which is far less than the scrapped $15 minimum wage increase.

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    Unifor urges the Federal Cabinet to #SaveLocalNews

    By admin | October 26, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    OTTAWA, Oct. 25, 2018 /CNW/ – The union representing 12,000 Canadian journalists and media workers is urging members of the federal cabinet to implement key policy recommendations from the 2017 Commons Heritage report on local news in the upcoming federal budget.

    “We are looking for cabinet members to champion local news in the next budget,” said National President Jerry Dias. “The most effective way to counteract bots, trolls, and fake news is professional news reporting. We can’t have our election politics tampered with.”

    Unifor says the Liberal cabinet should prioritize Income Tax measures that favour Canadian media over American rivals, as well as allowing tax deductible donations to support hard news reporting by professional news organizations. The federal government should increase the budget for the Canadian Periodical Fund, and make daily newspapers eligible for the fund.

    Unifor representatives spent the last three days meeting with 85 Members of Parliament from four major political parties, discussing the findings of the Commons Heritage Report which documented how the outflow of digital advertising dollars to Silicon Valley has starved Canadian media of revenues needed to fund local news.

    “Members of Parliament understand that the political dialogue in this country is vulnerable to being corrupted by extreme and misleading propaganda on social media platforms,” said Dias. “The solution to fake news is real news.”

     

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    Ford government sides with business lobby over working people with “Making Ontario Open for Business Act”

    By admin | October 24, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    TORONTO, Oct. 23, 2018 /CNW/ – Unifor condemns the provincial government’s plan to claw back workers’ rights and protections.

    “Fair scheduling, equal pay for equal work, paid sick days. These rights are not frivolous – they are practical, minimum standard for fairness. Standards that help grow good jobs and keep workers safe,” Jerry Dias, Unifor National President. “This Act is a direct attack on millions of workers, backed up by an imaginary crisis.”

    The proposed legislation caves to demands by big business, including eliminating protection for part-time and temporary workers to be paid fairly, cancelling the promised increase to $15 an hour minimum wage, slashing paid leave for workers who experience illness and crisis.

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    Union ready to fight too-restrictive workplace rules on cannabis

    By admin | October 18, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    As workplaces across Canada scramble to create rules to deal with legalized cannabis, labour experts are predicting there will be plenty of push back, including legal challenges.

    Canada will become the second country to legalize recreation cannabis on Wednesday, prompting public- and private sector companies to modify existing substance-use policies or draft new ones.

    In response, the countrys largest private-sector union, which represents thousands of workers in Southwestern Ontario, already has filed several grievances and is gearing up to take employers to court.

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    Unifor supports Indonesia disaster relief with $70,000 donation

    By admin | October 15, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    TORONTO, Oct. 11, 2018 /CNW/ – Unifor is supporting Oxfam and Save the Children’s disaster relief efforts in Indonesia with a combined $70,000 donation.

    “The scale of the damage from the earthquake and tsunami is massive,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “Save the Children Canada and Oxfam Canada are working with their Indonesian partners to provide vital aid, alleviate suffering and prevent further loss of life from spread of disease.”

    On September 28, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi region, triggering a powerful tsunami. More than 2,000 have been killed, with the death toll expected to climb, as an estimated 5,000 people remain missing, feared buried or swept away.

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    Unifor warns CPTPP legislation hurts NAFTA trade position

    By admin | September 20, 2018 | | 0 Comments

    TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2018 /CNW/ – Unifor warns that rushed debate on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) legislation hurts Canada’s trade position at a crucial point in NAFTA negotiations.

    “The CPTPP includes loose cultural protection, an expansion of foreign imports in supply-managed industries as well as weak and unenforceable labour standards key issues that Canada is fighting for at the NAFTA negotiating table,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “How do we tell the U.S. and Mexico that we won’t surrender Canadian markets, reduce labour standards and open ourselves up to massive job loss when that is exactly what we are in the process of doing with ten other nations?”

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