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MYSOGYNY AIRLINES
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Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:21

Female pilot says sexism made her quit; wants her job back

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MISOGYNY KNOWS NO RHYME OR REASON. If it did it would treat Jane Clegg and Tammie Jo Shults the same. But it doesn’t.

Jane Clegg in the cockpit in happier days

MISOGYNY KNOWS NO RHYME OR REASON. If it did it would treat Jane Clegg and Tammie Jo Shults the same. But it doesn’t.

It treats Jane Clegg like a zero, because of her gender. It treats Tammie Jo Shults like a hero, ignoring her gender.

Both women are airline pilots. Tammie Jo Shults recently safely landed a damaged Southwest Airlines plane with 149 people on board. She deserves all the praise she gets.

ALARMING LAPSE
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Thu, 05/03/2018 - 13:33

Pregnant nurse left without security alarm in patient attack

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ALL SHE COULD DO WAS SCREAM FOR HELP. Her personal security alarm was out of reach and next to useless anyway. It was held together with masking tape. Fortunately, other nurses heard her cries and came to her rescue.

ALL SHE COULD DO WAS SCREAM FOR HELP. Her personal security alarm was out of reach and next to useless anyway. It was held together with masking tape. Fortunately, other nurses heard her cries and came to her rescue.

Nurses are attacked and hurt by patients all the time. But this attack was different. It was exactly what the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU/NUPGE) had time and again warned the employer could happen. Now it had.

MEAT GRINDER
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Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:32

Employers, temp agencies prey on innocent asylum-seekers

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PAULO’S RIGHT HAND WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. The damage done in a meat grinder accident at work is too severe. You’d think he’d get workers’ compensation, no problem. You’d be wrong.

Haitian refugee Joanne Clotaire with her sons Lucas and Looandjee, left, ready to work for a new life in Canada

PAULO’S RIGHT HAND WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. The damage done in a meat grinder accident at work is too severe. You’d think he’d get workers’ compensation, no problem. You’d be wrong.

UNIONS MATTER #6
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Sun, 04/15/2018 - 14:26

THEY MAKE WORKPLACES FAIRER

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THEY MAKE WORKPLACES FAIRER

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IN UNION IS STRENGTH

Young workers discover an old truth

Baristas are starting to “wake up and smell the coffee.” They are not alone.

KILLER JOBS
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Sat, 04/14/2018 - 13:05

‘This job’s killin me’: too true, too often

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YOGA CLASSES AREN’T GONNA DO IT. The stress at work is still gonna get ya—and even kill ya—way too often. Proof of this is all laid out in a new book by Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

YOGA CLASSES AREN’T GONNA DO IT. The stress at work is still gonna get ya—and even kill ya—way too often. Proof of this is all laid out in a new book by Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Pfeffer’s book, Dying for a Paycheck, takes a deeper look at research that pointed to  working conditions as the cause of more than 120,000 excess deaths a year in the USA.

UNIONS MATTER
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Mon, 04/02/2018 - 12:11

THEY PROMOTE WORLDWIDE FAIRNESS

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THEY PROMOTE WORLDWIDE FAIRNESS

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UNION SOLIDARITY TAKES IN THE WHOLE WORLD. It always has.

When unions say “an injury to one is an injury to all” they mean everybody, everywhere. World history is full of examples:

FORCED LABOUR
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Thu, 03/15/2018 - 11:05

Boss convicted of abusing teen workers

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THE LAW CAUGHT UP WITH KAMALJIT BHALLA LAST MONTH. His mistreatment of teenage workers earned him a sentence of 15 months house arrest.

THE LAW CAUGHT UP WITH KAMALJIT BHALLA LAST MONTH. His mistreatment of teenage workers earned him a sentence of 15 months house arrest.

The guilty verdict came after the court heard how Bhalla essentially held two 16-year-old boys captive for three days on his remote construction site northwest of Edmonton, where he subjected them to repeated abuse.

LITTLE DICTATORS
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Tue, 03/13/2018 - 13:07

Granting bosses the power to rule over us

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MILLIONS OF US LEAVE DEMOCRACY BEHIND EVERY DAY. We go to work.

 

MILLIONS OF US LEAVE DEMOCRACY BEHIND EVERY DAY. We go to work.

Once there, most of the rights and freedoms we hold to be so precious to us off the job just evaporate. This doesn’t seem to matter. The boss gets to behave like a little dictator. Not noticing is expected. Ya gotta go along to get along.

Employers can dictate how we dress, what politicians we support, what we’re allowed to say on social media, even what we do with our free time.

Employers today exert a degree of authority over their employees that, in many cases, is more restrictive than the authority that the state wields over its citizens.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
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Sun, 03/04/2018 - 12:57

Something to celebrate every day

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CELEBRATING WOMEN IS NOT HARD. What’s hard is trying to make a list limited to just 10 great women activists. But, we gave it a shot. Just to get things rolling.

CELEBRATING WOMEN IS NOT HARD. What’s hard is trying to make a list limited to just 10 great women activists. But, we gave it a shot. Just to get things rolling.

We offer this list as a place to start. It is a list to be added to. A list that needs to grow into the dozens, hundreds, thousands. Exactly how long it should be will depend on you.

We invite you to send us the names and info about women you think should be on a list of great women activists.

Use the Send Us Your Stories button at the bottom of this item to do that.

NO VIOLENCE SILENCE
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Sun, 03/04/2018 - 15:05

Nurse wins back her job and freedom to speak out on patient violence

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THEY FIRED HER TO SILENCE HER. Now Sue McIntyre can go back to work and talk it up.

Sue McIntyre speaks at rally to end the silence about patient violence

An Ontario arbitrator has ruled the North Bay Regional Health Centre was wrong to fire her in February 2016 for talking in public about the violence nurses regularly face at work. He has ruled that Sue should get her job back, with pay.

The arbitrator concluded there is a “broad acceptance that workplace violence is prevalent in the hospital sector.” He also pointed out that hospital administrators themselves are well aware of it.

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