Ron Wells, president of USW 1005, and Jillian Watt, president of CUPE 7800, talk about hundreds of layoffs hitting their members, the reasons for it, the impact on Hamilton, and their mobilization to protect jobs.

Tom digs into the nation-wide labour response to the Federal Liberals’ Bill C-39, which institutionalizes the power of the Labour Minister to ban strikes she deems to be contrary to the “national interest,” a term without legal definition.

Unions are developing their campaign to oppose C-39. Some have explicitly pledged to defy it, which was how how workers prevented section 107 from being used against Air Canada on-flight staff and Ontario’s Bill 28 from being used against school support workers.


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