by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorised
URGENT: Picket line locations for CUPE-OSBCU strike on Friday, November 4 The Ford government is pulling the plug on bargaining while it’s still underway and using Bill 28, to forcibly impose a contract on education workers. This is unacceptable and must be...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorised
The London and District Labour Council, after considerable examination of candidate responses and debate, is pleased to announce the following endorsements for the 2022 City of London Municipal Election: Ward One Hadleigh McAlister Ward Two Shawn Lewis Ward Three...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorised
The poster read, “Wanted at once, 300 men for No. 2 Construction Battalion for coloured men of Canada.” The unit was formed in Nova Scotia, home to more than a third of this country’s blacks. …In the early 1900’s, during the First World War they weren’t always wanted...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Oct 28, 2017 | Uncategorised
The Columbia Brewery bottling plant will be closing down by December 2017 Lorne Eckersley Oct. 26, 2017 1:00 p.m. News The Columbia Brewery bottling plant in Creston will be closing down by December 2017 and all bottling of Labatt products for Western Canada will be...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Dec 13, 2016 | Uncategorised
Canadians have an opportunity to choose a new way of deciding how their votes count and how elections shape future governments. It’s an opportunity to choose new election rules that make voting matter, so more people feel it’s important to participate. New...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorised
BACKGROUND Schedule 17 of Bill 70 – the demise of skilled trades in Ontario The Liberal government has introduced amendments to the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act (the Act) that will dilute the enforcement powers of the Ontario College of...
