‘Featured’ Archives
Family Day in Region 4 – 2013
Free to all OPSEU Members and Their Families Merrickville Blockhouse Park Enjoy the summer weather Alongside eastern Ontario’s world Heritage site, and the great shopping in Canada’s prettiest village! Join us Saturday June 29th, 2013 [Read More]
Watch for this “Making Life Work” proposal to surface here in Ontario under Hudak’s Banner
Originally posted on the HuffingtonPost.com Leo W. Gerard: GOP Forcibly Making Working Families Flexible May 6, 2013 A century ago, workers were a lot more “flexible” than they are now. Veritable Gumbies in the mills and mines and factories they were, [Read More]
Harry Leslie Smith reminds us why our grandparents fought WWII & why they did not give up the fight for equality
Originally posted on New Left Project Is This What We Fought For? Every year, the spring rains fall hard and heavy to a parched and hungry earth. Life is reborn from the long slumber of winter. For me the beauty in this annual transformation stings as if I caught my finger [Read More]
Harper relies on stoking resentments in discreet class war
Thatcher-style attempt to crush unions would leave Canadian workers powerless. Originally posted on SGNews.com by Linda McQuaig The willingness of much of the Canadian media to go along with the Conservative narrative about Stephen Harper’s “moderation” has [Read More]
Building A House of Cards: Public Meeting with Dr. John Lister
“We encourage you all to attend this very important information session on the ongoing failure of P3s to deliver on their promise of savings for the taxpayer. In this age of government imposed Austerity it is more important than ever that we be informed of how 100’s of [Read More]