What’s wrong with this picture? Anti-union airline employer pays employees poverty wages and skimps on health and safety. Employees join union, strike in the face of employer intransigence, and employer hires scabs. All the while, anti-union employer is bankrolled by union members’ pension fund. Bizarre but true. The employer is [...]
The COPE strike at Porter FBO in Toronto has generated lots of facts, fiction and fantasy. One need only read Porter’s Facebook page to see how truly uninformed many folks are, even the self-professed experts. They talk a lot, but never support their propositions with any facts. Hourly wages Fiction: [...]
Several months ago I was approached by a group of young workers at Porter Fixed Based Operations (FBO) looking for a union to represent them as they had serious concerns around health and safety. The stories they recounted of flagrant health and safety violations and unsafe working conditions were appalling. [...]
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