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	<title>AFI International Blog - Covering Work Stoppages, Labour Disputes, and Strike Security &#187; Labour Lawyers</title>
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		<title>U of M staff urged to snub contract offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE University of Manitoba&#8217;s 850 teaching assistants, markers, lab assistants and tutors are being urged to reject the university&#8217;s contract offer in a vote today. Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3909 is urging its members to reject the deal, which calls for a two-year wage freeze, followed by two annual increases of 2.9 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale may face tough labor talks at Canada nickel mine -USW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dow Jones quoted Mr. Wayne Rae United Steelworkers&#8217; Union official as saying that Brazilian miner Vale SA may face difficult negotiations on renewing a collective labor contract at the Thompson, Manitoba, nickel mine and smelter in Canada when it expires in August or September 2011. Mr. Rae said that negotiations may be tricky as Vale, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nova Scotia nurses in capital region vote to strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HALIFAX &#8211; Nurses working for Nova Scotia&#8217;s largest health authority have voted 94 per cent in favour of going on strike. The nurses, represented by the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, work for the Capital District Health Authority. The two sides are headed into conciliation. Union president Joan Jessome says the nurses won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locked-out Essex Powerlines workers want to get back to bargaining</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TECUMSEH, Ont. &#8212; Locked-out Essex Powerlines workers have been forming picket lines outside town halls to try to get the corporation back to the bargaining table. “We’re not that far apart and it could be done,” Brian Manninger, the bargaining agent for the workers who were locked out April 1, said Tuesday. Essex Power lines, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courtenay city workers vote to strike for fairness and respect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COURTENAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA&#8211;(Marketwire &#8211; April 27, 2011) - Last night, the city workers of Courtenay, represented by CUPE 556, voted 92 per cent to strike for fairness and respect on the job. Despite huge budget surpluses, exorbitant managerial wages and substantial boosts to private contractor pay, the city workers are frustrated by the employer&#8217;s argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Post contract talks to resume</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/04/26/canada-post-contract-talks-to-resume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contract talks are scheduled to resume Tuesday between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Union members recently voted 94.5% in in favour of giving their negotiators a strike mandate. CUPW will be in a position to strike midnight May 24 if an agreement is not reached. &#8220;We would expect this week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers at Connors Bros. fish plant vote in favour of pay cut</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/04/21/workers-at-connors-bros-fish-plant-vote-in-favour-of-pay-cut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees at Connors Bros. Ltd. in Blacks Harbour have accepted a collective agreement that will lower their wages anywhere from one to eight per cent and have an impact on the amount of overtime pay they can claim, union president William Beney confirmed Wednesday. Slightly more than three-quarters of the 734 members of the Charlotte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispute over pay raises pushes Kelowna toward transit strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A transit strike is looming in Kelowna as workers employed by a private company bristle at attempts to impose public-sector wage restraints on their next collective agreement. “We know what we are. We know we&#8217;re the cheaper alternative to government employees,” said Les Milton, president of Amalgamated Transit Union local 1722, which represents 189 Kelowna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal union holding strike vote, warns of April disruption</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/03/25/postal-union-holding-strike-vote-warns-of-april-disruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, frustrated at the pace of talks with Canada Post, is asking its urban operations members to vote on a strike. If the majority votes for a strike, the union would be in a stronger position to negotiate with Canada Post management in the current round of bargaining for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Canada workers union asks for conciliation after weeks of bargaining</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO &#8211; The union representing some 3,800 Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) customer service and sales agents says it is applying for conciliation following several weeks of bargaining &#8220;with little progress.&#8221; The Canadian Auto Workers union local 2002, which represents the employees, has been meeting with the airline since Feb. 11. The union says its employees have [...]]]></description>
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