TORONTO – Industrial construction projects and commercial real estate will be delayed in completing work due to the strike of 15,000 carpenters belonging to the Carpenters District Council of Ontario.
VAUGHAN (Ontario) – Carpenter’s District Council of Ontario, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (the “Carpenters”) is announcing that a province-wide strike of carpenters in the industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) sector in the construction industry is imminent.
TORONTO – Thousands of Toronto families can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no disruption to classroom instruction for Catholic elementary school students in Toronto this week.
Things may get a little more difficult for some Toronto area students this coming Monday. The Toronto Catholic Elementary Teachers Union (TECT) is prepared to commence strike action as early as next week. If TECT and the Toronto Catholic District School (TCDSB) fail to come to an agreement in the next few days, teachers are in a position to stop instruction services as of January 31, 2022.
[GTranslate]Very high participation in the first general strike of Amazon’s Italian workers, organized yesterday by Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti who speak of an average participation “of 75%, with peaks of 90% in some territories. It is a successful protest – explain the three trade union organizations, protagonists of the first strike in the history of the Seattle giant in Italy – even beyond our expectations considering that many workers feel ‘blackmail’ because they have atypical contracts and therefore have seen the protest as a risk to their precarious job” (in the pic by Filt-Cgil, some of the strikers). (more…)