New Contract – Better Times for Harris Victoria Chrysler!

  Thursday May 2, 2013     For Immediate Release   Victoria, BC – Things are looking up for members of IAM Local Lodge 456 employed at Harris Victoria Chrysler (formerly Ensign Chrysler). It’s a new ownership, business is coming back and there’s a new three-year collective agreement.   “These members went through some very tough times over the last four years,” explained IAM District Lodge 250 Business Representative Alastair

Les Machinistes s’entendent pour trois ans avec Pacific Chevrolet!

  Jeudi 2 mai 2013   À publier immédiatement   Port Alberni, CB – Les membres de la section locale 1857 de l’AIM ont ratifié une nouvelle convention collective d’une durée de trois ans avec Pacific Chevrolet (anciennement Dennis Jonsson Motor Products).   La nouvelle entente prévoit des augmentations de salaire de 1 % par année les première et deuxième années ainsi que de 1,5 % la troisième année. «

Machinists Sign Three-Year Deal with Pacific Chevrolet

  Thursday May 2, 2013     For Immediate Release   Port Alberni, BC – Members of IAM Local Lodge 1857 have ratified a new three-year collective agreement with Pacific Chevrolet (formerly Dennis Jonsson Motor Products).   The new agreement provides wage increases of 1 per cent in each of the first two years and 1.5 per cent in the third year. “With inflation currently running about half a per

What you can do about the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh

April 29, 2013 In the wake of the horrifying factory collapse in Bangladesh that has taken the lives of more than 400 workers and injured many more, there are things that can be done to respond to this disaster and to prevent future tragedies — by governments, by retailers, apparel brands, consumers and investors. IndustriALL Global Union and IndustriALL Bangladesh Council is calling on the Bangladeshi government to take urgent

Les Machinistes recrutement une première concession dans la région de Montréal!

  Mercredi 1er mai 2013   À publier immédiatement     Laval, QC – Le district 11 de l’AIM a fait œuvre de pionnier en recrutant récemment une première concession de véhicules dans la région de Montréal. Ainsi, les mécaniciens à l’emploi de Camions Rive-Nord sont devenus les plus récents membres à s’ajouter à la section locale 712 de l’AIM.   « Les conseillers juridiques de leur association du personnel

Machinists Organized First Dealership in Montréal Area!

  Thursday April 18, 2013     For Immediate Release     Laval, QC – IAM District Lodge 11 broke new ground when it recently organized its first automotive dealership in the Montréal area. Mechanics at International Rive-Nord Truck have become the newest members of IAM Local Lodge 712.   “We were approached by the legal counsel for their staff association regarding a possible merger,” explained IAM District Lodge 11

Protecting children from having to work

Social protection measures can help reduce the incidence of child labour, says Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). Around 215 million children world-wide are engaged in child labour. Much of this work is harmful, hazardous or even dangerous to their health and to their future life development. Children everywhere should be able to have a real childhood, to play, to learn

Day of Mourning, April 28, 2013

Each year the Machinist Union joins with Labour Nationally and Labour accredited Health and Safety agencies nation- wide in the effort to remember those tragically killed or maimed in the course of employment and, just as importantly, to continue to highlight the carnage and personal loss created by workplace accidents and disease. These efforts are critical to enhancing public awareness for our collective efforts to save lives and protect workers

Support Workers at Porter Airlines

Remember those Porter Airlines workers who have been on strike since 10 January?  How the employer was offering tiny or no wage increases and no improvements to the workers’ (and by extension all our) safety?   To that anti-union behaviour you can add the fact that Porter is listed as a user of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (see  HERE). As is now well-known, thanks to a few brave RBC

Les Machinistes concluent une nouvelle entente avec B.A. International Inc.!

  Mardi 9 avril 2013   À publier immédiatement     Ottawa, ON – Les membres de la section locale 412 de l’AIM ont ratifié une nouvelle convention collective de cinq ans avec B.A. International Incorporated.    La nouvelle entente concède une prime à la signature de 1 000 $ ainsi que des augmentations de salaire de 2 % la première année, de 2 % la deuxième année, de 2,5