Tag Archives: Strike

They Are Back!

October 11, 2025 · by · in Society · Leave a comment

More or less anyway. On Friday the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced that they were ending their two-week long nationwide walkout in favor of rotating strikes. I guess they realized most Canadians hadn’t noticed they weren’t getting any mail the past couple of weeks. You would almost think they didn’t want their jobs. […]

The Other Guy Blinked

August 20, 2025 · by · in Politics, Society · Leave a comment

On Monday, Air Canada flight attendants went on strike. The airline canceled flights, disrupting hundreds of thousands of Canadians. After months of negotiations. there was an impasse between management and workers. No talks were scheduled. Within hours, the government ordered the strikers back to work. The argument was that the strike would be bad for […]

Is This Fair?

August 17, 2025 · by · in Leadership, Politics, Society, Travel · Leave a comment

Air Canada’s10,000 flight attendants went on strike Saturday morning, bringing the airline’s operations of a halt. By early afternoon the federal government had stepped in, ordering the strikers back to work and imposing binding arbitration. So much for collective bargaining and the right to strike. The central issue in the dispute is pay for unpaid […]

On Strike

April 19, 2023 · by · in Leadership, Society · Leave a comment

There are no winners today as 155,000 Canadian civil servants walk off the job in the largest strike actions  in years. I’ve been there before. . More than thirty years ago I walked the picket line in a similar job action. I was an enthusiastic union supporter and believed in the cause to the point where […]

Spineless

November 2, 2015 · by · in Society · 1 Comment

Sometimes I can be taken by surprise. Just when you think there is nothing new under the sun, there is. Or new to me anyway. Ontario’s public school teachers have proven it actually is possible to have your cake and eat it too. They are currently holding a job action, have been for months, withdrawing […]