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		<title>Caterpillar closes Electro-Motive plant in London</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American industrial giant Caterpillar is closing its locomotive plant in London and putting 460 workers out of their jobs just over a month after they were locked out for rejecting pay cuts of up to 50 per cent. The dramatic move at the Electro-Motive Canada factory, owned by Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, confirmed the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take new deal or we’ll impose it, city tells workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayor Rob Ford administration has an ultimatum for 6,000 city workers — surrender almost all job security and more, or have the concessions imposed anyway at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. The threat — extremely unusual in the public sector and regarded as a way to get workers to accept an offer or force them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transit strike hits Halifax</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first transit strike in Halifax since 1998 left thousands of people in the city scrambling to find alternate methods of transportation as Metro Transit and its unionized workers refused to budge from their positions. More than 700 workers walked off the job just after 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, after union representatives rejected Metro Transit&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A month on the line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 27]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The union representing 481 locked-out Electro-Motive employees won a round in court Wednesday when a judge ruled against a proposed injunction that would have ended their blockade of a locomotive in Ingersoll. The locomotive &#8212; identified in court as unit 4 &#8212; had been stopped on the tracks since Jan. 25. Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAW ends Electro-Motive blockade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Locked out Electro-Motive workers in London have ended their blockade of a locomotive in Ingersoll. Members of the CAW, which represents workers at the London plant, had prevented the locomotive from moving since Jan. 25. The locomotive was one of the last units to be produced at the Electro-Motive plant before parent company Caterpillar Inc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halifax Regional Water Commission employees soundly reject employer&#8217;s &#8216;final offer&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA&#8211;(Marketwire &#8211; Feb. 1, 2012) - Unionized employees with the Halifax Regional Water Commission (HRWC) have soundly rejected a so-called final offer from their employer. CUPE Local 227 President Dave Dort explains, &#8220;In a vote held last night, our members sent a definitive message to HRWC: we deserve a new contract that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockout &#8216;could happen,&#8217; says deputy mayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Sunday deadline approaches, Toronto&#8217;s deputy mayor says it&#8217;s time for the city&#8217;s outside workers to get down to business and negotiate a new contract. In an interview on Metro Morning, Doug Holyday said the threat of a lockout is not off the table, if CUPE 416 fails to reach agreement on a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students prepare for Metro Transit strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Metro Transit drivers poised to go on strike this week, Halifax universities are making alternative plans for their students. Dalhousie University has about 7,000 students who rely on the bus, while 1,000 students use public transit regularly at Saint Mary&#8217;s University. That means if the strike goes ahead and buses and ferries stop Thursday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crofton union rejects tentative deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada local at the Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill has rejected a tentative agreement, necessary for the company&#8217;s financial survival. Local 2, representing some 400 workers, turned down the proposal Saturday by 58 per cent. The other union at the Crofton mill, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers could strike at Cargill Meat Solutions in Guelph</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GUELPH — NEARLY 800 WORKERS AT CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS IN GUELPH COULD BE ON STRIKE BY THE END OF THE WEEK, IF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND ITS UNIONIZED EMPLOYEES CANNOT BE REACHED. THE WORKERS AT THE DUNLOP DRIVE MEAT PROCESSING FACILITY IN GUELPH’S EAST SIDE ARE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL [...]]]></description>
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