Our next General Membership Meeting will take place on January 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM at OFL - Ontario Federation of Labour, 15 Gervais Drive (Don Mills and Eglinton)). Are you going to attend it? Hopefully so... We need every member to be there...
Union convention demands action on forestry, national energy policy
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Published: January 5, 2009 PrintEmail
Epic struggle at Petro Canada secures national bargaining in energy sector: Workers at the Montreal Petro Canada refinery have voted 94.6% to accept a new collective agreement to end a 13 month lockout fought over the future of national pattern bargaining in Canada’s oil, gas and petrochemical industries...
Petro-Canada lock-out: The parties reach a tentative settlement: Montreal, December 19: In the presence of special mediator Lucien Bouchard and Labour department conciliator Robert Dupuis...
Organizing. Building Our Local For The Future: How do we continue to provide collective agreements that are second to none, with the excellent wages, pensions and benefits that most of us enjoy while our membership numbers are dwindling...
Mailing of The Tax Slips: Tax Slips for Union dues received in 2008 will be mailed out in February, 2009 from CEP Local 591G, the amount on this slip represents the claimable portion on your income tax return.
Members Please Be Sure To Call Us! Members please be sure to call the Local Union Office and report when you are off work due to illness, layoff, termination, or on maternity leave. We also need to know when you return to work. Please help us to help you - call and report. Change of addresses can be emailed to: info@cep591g.com
National Boycott of Petro-Canada! Petro-Canada has locked out over 260 workers at its refinery in Montreal since Nov. 17, 2007. These workers were simply asking for the same contract conditions as other CEP members in all the other provinces...
The Harper government has ignored the needs of Canadians. Instead of putting forward a plan to deal with the impact of the economic crisis Stephen Harper decided to play partisan politics, attacking the democratic process by eliminating public funding for political parties and pushing his right-wing agenda by restricting the right to strike for public sector workers and weakening pay equity legislation.
Forest sector needs coalition: union. The president of Canada’s largest forestry union has endorsed the economic stimulus program for forestry and manufacturing proposed by the Liberal-NDP Coalition with the support of the Bloc Quebecois...
Gov’t rallies ‘drown out’ victims of violence against women. Ottawa: “As the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women approaches, Stephen Harper has reason to hang his head in shame at his government’s abysmal track record...
Mr. Harper had his chance. There is no more time to waste. Much of the media analysis on the current political showdown is focused on the next move to be played on the Parliamentary chessboard...
Meeting in Aberdeen; Scotland, November 10, 2008, offshore oil and gas workers unions from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, and Norway, together with representatives from the ICEM and ITF, expressed full support to the boycott of Petro-Canada products throughout Canada...
Health & Safety Level 1 Training Course Provincial & Federal: Sisters and Brothers: CEP Ontario Region is offering a Health & Safetly Level 1 Training Course scheduled for Monday, November 24th through to Friday, November 28th, 2008 at the Travelodge Hotel, Alderwood Room, 925 Dixon Rd., Toronto...
World labour body endorses Petro-Canada boycott: Geneva, Switzerland. The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) has given its full support to a week-old boycott of Petro-Canada products...
