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August News
August 31
• Strike keeps ambulance post vacant
• Montreal blue-collars staging one-day strike
• Sudbury MP Offers Strikers a More Affordable Supper than The Liberals $550 a plate dinner

August 27
• Hotline TWU and COPE 15 Reach Tentative Agreement

August 26
• Calgary: Starbucks Coffee distribution centre certified by Teamsters Local 987
• Vale Inco to resume production with scabs

August 25
• Vale may use non-union workers to restart Sudbury nickel ops
• Hotline CLC Pacific Region Weekend Schools

August 24
• N.W.T. labour leader barred from Harper event
• H1N1 doctor fee stuns nurses'union

August 22
• Peace activist Muriel Duckworth dies at 100

August 21
• HOT Petition to Dissolve the CRTC hits 4175 signatures
• Vale Says Can’t Rule Out Sudbury Restart Amid Strike
• Montreal Blue Collar workers going on a one-day strike at the end of the month
• CUPE President Urges United Front to Fight the Right

August 20
• NDP Outlines Program for Working People
• A little planning, can make a BIG difference

August 19
• Forestry talks break off in B.C.
• Vale Inco training regimen alarms union
• Scrap the CRTC, petition urges

August 18
• Telus BlackBerry Tour and Storm Won’t Play Nice With Upcoming HSPA Network
• Cellphone merger bad news
• Zellers Workers Picket Brampton Distribution Facility as Efforts to Restart Contract Talks Fail
• Vale Inco Strikers Receive Overwhelming Support and Help from Federal NDP
• Biggest Tax Shift in BC History: Why Did Campbell Do It?

August 17
• Janitors go on strike at Pearson Airport
• 911 workers close to a deal
• Edmonton Lafarge workers end strike

August 16
• Petition to Dissolve the CRTC
• Hotline Labour Day Volunteers Needed

August 15
• Calgary 911 operators reach tentative deal
• At long last, praise for our soaring loonie

August 14
• Google Voice – the wireless profit squeezer?
• Tech Canadian airport to test ‘behaviour detection’ program
• Hot Tax Revolt! HST Hatred Keeps Growing
• CLC signs tri-national statement on NAFTA
• CAW Members in Niagara Falls Vote to Accept New Three Year Contract
• Brooklyn, N.S., mill workers face 4th shutdown

August 13
• No Talks, But Solidarity on the Rise in Canadian Nickel Strike
• Union says member hurt on picket line by security vehicle

August 12
• Steelworkers, Vale Inco too far apart to bring in help
• Canadian cellphone rates among world's worst
• Hotline Workplace Stress Survey

August 11
• BC NDP: PETITION TO STOP THE BC LIBERAL HST
• Newfoundland squeezes small group of workers
• Alberta To Be Hit By 2 Labor Strikes Among Lab Technicians, 911 Operators
• CLC: Employment Insurance provides less to Ontario today than in 1990

August 10
• Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) repeats the need to protect workers
• Lab workers vote in favour of strike
• Crisis looms for Calgary 911

August 8
• Telus profit slides 9 per cent

August 7
• CLC President asks Premiers to champion EI reform
• Ontario double standard
• Hotline Membership Outreach Activities

August 6
• CDLC's Ist Annual Union Labour Day BBQ, Monday, September 7, 2009
• Hotline Update: TWU and COPE 15 Bargaining Negotiations
• Inco workers not backing down from demands

August 4
• Should be thanking, not blaming, unions
• Starbucks Workers Union Gains Momentum as Campaign Expands to Canada
• U.S. Steel locks out Nanticoke workers

August 3
• Voisey's Bay joins other locals on picket line
• No end in sight for paramedic strike

August 2
• Finally, it's garbage day
• Vale's Voisey's Bay workers on strike
• Walmart files injunction against UFCW for circular objects

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