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09 Mar |
CEP Renews Commitment to the Humanity Fund |
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OTTAWA -- The CEP marked the twentieth anniversary of the Humanity Fund with a renewed commitment to grow the Fund. |
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08 Mar |
Fraser Papers’ Edmundston workers ratify pension deal |
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EDMUNDSTON, NB -- CEP members at Fraser Papers’ Edmundston mill have voted 69.3% to ratify an agreement to change the pension plan and complete the conditions required for the company to restructure and emerge from bankruptcy protection. |
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07 Mar |
Tentative agreement between CEP and AbitibiBowater |
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MONTRÉAL, March 7 /CNW Telbec/ - After arduous negotiations, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has agreed to a tentative agreement with AbitibiBowater to renew the collective agreement. This deal fulfills an essential condition towards the emergence of the company from the current restructuring process. |
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04 Mar |
Harper should go down over foreign ownership sellout |
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Ottawa - The Harper government should be defeated on its plans to sell off Canada's key telecommunications and broadcasting industries, says Canada's largest media union. |
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04 Mar |
Budget does nothing for forest workers, pensioners |
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OTTAWA - “All political parties should vote to bring this government down now,” says Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union President Dave Coles in reaction to today’s budget |
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03 Mar |
Foreign ownership: Another broken promise of the Conservatives |
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OTTAWA -- The intention stated by the Conservatives in today's Throne Speech to weaken Canada's foreign ownership regulations in telecommunications constitutes yet another attack on Canada's sovereignty, and will threaten the privacy and security enjoyed until now by Canadians under the protection of the Telecommunications Act, say the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP). |
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24 Feb |
White Birch paper files for bankruptcy - Union to Harper: “Forget the photo ops and come home to work” |
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OTTAWA – Another forestry company, White Birch, has filed for bankruptcy protection throwing the lives of about 1,100 workers into turmoil, and the president of Canada’s largest forestry union puts the blame squarely at the feet of the Harper government. |
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12 Feb |
Fraser Papers, Brookfield meet union on pensions |
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TORONTO – Fraser Papers, Brookfield Asset Management, and the Government of New Brunswick have agreed to meet with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada today at 10 am in Toronto |
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27 Jan |
Fraser Papers pensioners occupy Brookfield head office |
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WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 10 am |
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27 Jan |
Fraser Papers' pensioners remain defiant at Brookfield Toronto offices; Edmundston mill workers also confront CEO |
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TORONTO - Forest union leader Gaétan Ménard and four Fraser Papers' pensioners, who are occupying Brookfield Asset Management’s head office in Toronto, have been told that CEO Bruce Flatt is “not concerned” that pensioners could lose 40% of their pensions as a result of the company’s restructuring plan. |
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22 Jan |
HEARING NEEDED INTO CITY-TV LOCAL NEWS CUTS |
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Ottawa – Canada’s largest media union is asking whether the silence from the CRTC about the latest shutdown of local news at CITY television stations is the result of Heritage Minister James Moore muzzling the CRTC. |
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22 Jan |
CEP-AbitibiBowater negotiations temporarily adjourned |
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MONTREAL -- Negotiations between the AbitibiBowater CEP caucus and the company have temporarily adjourned and will resume March 1. |
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21 Jan |
Forest union wants urgent meeting with new Minister of Natural Resources |
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OTTAWA -- Canada’s largest forest and energy workers’ union has requested an urgent meeting with the newly appointed Minister of Natural Resources. In a letter to the Honourable Christian Paradis, Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada points out the critical situation facing Canada’s manufacturing sector and urgent need for dialogue. |
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13 Jan |
Fraser Papers/Brookfield scheme to shirk pension obligations |
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OTTAWA -- Canada’s largest forestry union says Fraser Papers restructuring plan is a deceptive scheme to get out of its financial obligations to pensioners. |
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10 Jan |
Union reaction to closure of Shell refinery in Montreal |
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MONTREAL -- Closure of the Shell refinery in Montreal is a serious error on all counts, say the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and the Quebec Federation of Labour. |
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08 Jan |
Greed, not newspapers, caused CCAA, says CEP |
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Ottawa - The Canwest decision to put its chain of newspapers into bankruptcy protection is a sad but clear affirmation that concentration of media ownership wasn't good for consumers, employees and investors, says Canada's largest media union. |
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06 Jan |
Union calls for probe into Hollinger transactions |
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Ottawa -- Canada’s largest media union is demanding an investigation into what appear to be certain questionable financial dealings revealed by Hollinger Canadian Publishing Holdings Co (HCPHC) in its recent filing under Canada’s bankruptcy protection legislation, CCAA. |
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