Canada

Canadian election brings historic shifts

May 4, 2011 By C.J. Atkins

Canada's historic federal election shifted the political dynamics of the country and set a new stage of struggle.

Workers target bank backing Gov. Walker

March 24, 2011 By John Wojcik

The Marshall & Ilesley Bank, the largest in Wisconsin, with branches throughout the Midwest has become the target of the Sheet Metal Workers and their union brothers and sisters in Canada.

World Notes: Algeria, Greece, Canada and more

February 1, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Protests in Algeria, migrant workers' hunger strike in Greece, steelworkers in Canada, and news from South Korea, Haiti, Cuba.

U.S. Steel locks out Canadian workers

November 9, 2010 By John Wojcik

The lockout is only the latest example of how Canadian government policies on foreign takeovers of Canadian firms fail workers.

U.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline

September 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas'...