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Air Canada flight attendant vote to strike

September 15, 2011 By Cory Collins

Flight attendants at Canada's largest airline overwhelmingly endorsed strike action on Sept 13 with results of the 10-day vote showing 5,175 ballots favoring a walkout.

Hundreds arrested in pro-environment civil disobedience

September 7, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The demonstration is the longest sustained civil disobedience action since the civil rights movement and the largest since 1977.

The Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?

August 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

For Air Canada workers, tentative pact in tough conditions

August 12, 2011 By Cory Collins

Air Canada is the world's ninth largest passenger airline and was an independent government-owned enterprise until its privatization in the 1980s.

50,000 Canadian postal workers locked out

June 17, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The company cited $100 million in losses the strike has caused and the union's refusal to cooperate in dealing with declining mail volumes.