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Lettercanada Published By AMERICAN INCOME LIFE & NATIONAL INCOME LIFE LETTER canada LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD SEPTEMBER 2012 Vol. 13 No. 5 NEWS FROM THE the merger of the two unions. “In this report, Canadian labour urged cau- CLC, FEDERATIONS our unions are mapping out the way to a new tion over allowing the proposed takeover & NATIONAL union that will focus on advancing the inter- of Calgary petroleum producer Nexen Inc. est of all Canadian workers,” said CAW Na- by a Chinese state-owned oil company. UNIONS tional President Ken Lewenza. Dave Coles, Alberta Federation of Labour president National President of CEP, added, “This Gil McGowan said Calgary-based Nexen Representatives of the Com- report is the first step towards reaching out has a major stake in the oilsands and Can- munications, Energy and Paperworkers beyond traditional workplaces and increasing ada should not allow a foreign government Union of Canada (CEP) and the Canadian the political influence of working people in to gain control of this valued resource Auto Workers union (CAW) announced Au- Canada.” Members of both unions will vote “without serious reflection.” “They’ll keep gust 1 the blueprint for the creation of what on the merger at their respective conventions. the best jobs for themselves. They’ll do the would be Canada’s largest industrial union. The CAW convention will be held in Toronto minimum to protect the environment and Leaders from both unions released the final August 20-24 and the CEP convention will ignore Canada’s long-term energy needs in report from the joint committee overseeing be held in Quebec City October 14-17. favour of their own nation’s needs,” Mc- Gowan said. The Canadian Labour Con- gress also called on the government “to launch an open and transparent review” of the proposed takeover. The federal govern- ment will have the final say on the take- over after a review under the Investment Canada Act. While not the first Chinese state-owned enterprise foray into Canada, the Nexen deal is by far the biggest. The $15.1 billion agreement is equal to the amount Chinese firms have invested in Canada’s oil and gas industry over the last three years. The Customs and Immigration Union (CIU) warned that government cutbacks of border guards will lead to more illegal handguns being smuggled into Canada. “The fact is [Public Safety Minister] Vic Toews just cut 1,300 jobs from the Canada Border Services Agency … and there is no question that cutting those jobs makes it easier to smuggle,” National President of CEP Dave Coles. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from CAW Media. Jason McMichael, CIU first national JAMES WILLIAMS, General President - International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Chairman - AIL Labour Advisory Board VICTOR KAMBER, Vice President - American Income Life Insurance Company, Executive Director - AIL Labour Advisory Board ROGER SMITH, Chief Executive Officer - American Income Life Insurance Company, President - AIL Labour Advisory Board DENISE BOWYER, Vice President - American Income Life Insurance Company, Secretary - AIL Labour Advisory Board DAVE BARRETT, Former Premier of Province of British Columbia, Honorary Member - AIL Labour Advisory Board DEBBIE ENSTEDT, Vice President of International Public Relations - American Income Life Insurance Company Pg 2 LABOUR LETTER vice-president, told the news media. “He include a one-time bonus payment of labour laws in place has been slow since has really handcuffed our ability to stop 10,000 shekels, a 15 per cent pay rise, the revolution, with business operators the handguns at the border.” According to and an agreed compensation for work- having strong links to the old regime and media reports, about a third of the guns ing shifts, Saturdays or holidays. New the military resisting change,” said In- police seize come from domestic sources firefighters will receive an additional 13 ternational Trade Union Confederation while the other two-thirds are smuggled per cent. According to news reports, the General Secretary Sharan Burrow. into Canada from the United States. The agreement is part of a far-reaching reform union’s warnings came shortly after the re- of the Israeli firefighting services follow- cent shootout in Scarborough and Toronto ing the disastrous Carmel forest blaze in NATIONAL & mayor Rob Ford’s subsequent meetings December 2010 that claimed 44 lives. POLITICAL EVENTS with Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty Israel’s State Comptroller issued a report and Prime Minister Stephen Harper about in June that found a large number of op- Overnight shift workers expe- curbing gang violence. erational failures. In particular, the report rience higher incidences of heart problems, blamed the finance and interior ministers, according to a new study by researchers The president of the Canadian while also naming the internal security in Canada and Norway. According to the Labour Congress called on the federal gov- minister and the Prime Minister, Benja- study, shift workers were 23 per cent more ernment to take a stronger leadership on min Netanyahu. likely to experience a heart attack, 24 per health care and retirement issues instead of cent more likely to have a coronary event forcing solutions on the nation’s provincial Tens of thousands of workers and 5 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke. premiers and territorial leaders. “Canadi- in Egypt’s industrial sectors have been The results, recently published in the British ans are really concerned about health care involved in strike action in recent weeks Medical Journal, were based on data collect- and retirement security, and they want over management attempts to take away ed from 34 surveys of more than 2 million their governments to work together to benefits, unpaid wages and demands for workers. “Night shift workers are up all the resolve these issues,” said CLC President pay increases, according to media reports. time and they don’t have a defined rest pe- Ken Georgetti. “Unfortunately, the federal The situation has deteriorated to the point riod. They are in a state of perpetual nervous government has a unilateral approach to- where Egypt’s President Morsi has inter- system activation which is bad for things ward both health care and pensions. Last vened to settle strikes across the textile like obesity and cholesterol,” said lead re- year the federal Finance Minister gave the sector and at the giant Cleopatra Ceram- searcher Dan Hackam, associate professor premiers a take-or-leave-it package on the ics in Ain Sokhna, where striking workers at Western University, London Ontario in federal contribution to health care through agreed to mediation to get unpaid wages Canada. “It can result in disturbed appetite the year 2024. That’s not good enough. We from the Mubarak-era factory owner. The and digestion, reliance on sedatives and, or want Ottawa to remain a full partner in trigger for the revolution to depose Hosni stimulants, as well as social and domestic our health care system and to negotiate Mubarak from the presidency began with problems.” He also said the increased heart with the premiers on funding.” Georgetti a wave of strikes in Mahalla. “Progress in risk could be a result of weight gain associ- made his comments in Halifax July 27 putting effective worker protections and ated with insufficient rest. while monitoring the Council of the Fed- eration meeting. Georgetti said the CLC’s own polling indicates that people want and expect the federal government to play an important role in making life better for all Canadians. “The premiers want to act on pensions and on health care, and we are calling on Ottawa to put its shoulder to the wheel as well.” INTERNATIONAL LABOUR NEWS Israel’s Histadrut and the fire- fighters union signed a historic collective bargaining agreement with the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Internal Security that for the first time grants them the right to strike. Other big gains Protesting workers in Egypt. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from Mosa'aberising. LABOUR LETTER Pg 3 after members threatened to file a wage grievance over company actions at an- other bargaining table. “We can now continue to do our jobs safely, serv- ing the public knowing we have been treated fairly,” said Local 725 President Scott Webber. B.C. community social ser- vices workers July 23 overwhelmingly voted for job action in support of their bargaining proposals, announced the B.C. Government and Service Em- ployees’ Union. Ten unions represent B.C.’s 15,000 community social services workers and negotiations broke down in early June with the provincial govern- ment. “Our members have given their bargaining committee the strong strike mandate it needs. That should send a clear message to the provincial govern- ment that these members are prepared to stand up for a fair and reasonable set- tlement,” says Darryl Walker, BCGEU president. The unions bargain together through the Community Social Ser- Workers unchaining an I beam. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from WISDOT. vices Bargaining Association (CSSBA). “We are asking for a fair and reasonable According to the federal the two organizations will promote ca- deal, one that reflects the important government’s Construction Sector reers in skilled trades and work with Council latest forecast, construction governments on initiatives to improve employment could face a 200,000 work- workforce availability. er gap by 2018. The forecast projected that construction jobs will increase by 180,000 while about 200,000 skilled NEWS FROM trades workers will retire. In response, CANADA’S UNIONS Canada’s Building Trade Unions and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Canadian Auto Workers Lo- Producers (CAPP) recently announced cal 725 reached agreement with Aca- a joint agreement to advance long-term dian Inter City Bus in Nova Scotia for competitiveness of the oil sands indus- a 10 per cent wage increase as part of try, with particular focus on develop- a one-year extension to their current ing a stronger skilled trades workforce.
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