- About the United Steel Workers struggle with Vale-Inco durring their brutal strike.
- The United Steel Workers are calling for what all workers can benefit from, a ban on the use of replacement workers! NO SCABS!
- The need for Ontario to put Job Creation at the top of the provincial budget priority.
- Uncover the dark world of Underground Foreign workers. Workers who have been convinced to work past their visa's expiration to work through a number of underground "Brokers". Some would argue this as a form of human trafficking, I agree.
- Talk about a 29 year old man who got fired from Wal-Mart for failing a drug screening due to the use of Medical Marijuana.
- Lastly, a local campus police constable is suspended then asked to leave the premises Bare Backed! "Hand in your shirt! NOW!" Holy &*#$! Are we living in a bad 50's cartoon???
And here are the stories and links to them that we referenced in our broadcast :
USW international prez calls out Tito Martins
http://thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2505384
Rally participants stress need for anti-scab legislation
http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2010/03/rally250310.aspx
Job creation should be top Ontario budget priority: Report
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/job-creation-should-be-top-ontario-budget-priority-report
Temp Foreign Workers take the fall again for farmers and government
http://www.ufcw.ca/Default.aspx?SectionId=af80f8cf-ddd2-4b12-9f41-641ea94d4fa4&LanguageId=1&ItemId=228117ee-a1dd-4907-a1d7-047a17ed21ed
Walmart fires Battle Creek employee for using medical marijuana
http://michiganmessenger.com/35833/walmart-fires-battle-creek-employee-for-using-medical-marijuana
Windsor CAW members protest at university over campus police suspension
http://www.windsorstar.com/business/Windsor+members+protest+university+over+campus+police+suspension/2711720/story.html
WOHIS Health and safety Minute:
Earth Hour 2010 is Saturday night March 27th at 8:30 p.m.
Since 2007 Earth Hour has been an annual international “lights out” event led by
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with the goal of having as many individuals and businesses as possible turn off their lights for one hour to support action on climate change.
Last year Earth Hour was a huge success when millions of people around the world participated!
Here in Canada, almost half of all Canadians turned off the lights.
Why Participate? According to the World Wildlife Fund:
"Earth Hour is a symbolic event. Turning off our lights for an hour won’t stop
climate change but it does demonstrate that our individual action is important and adds up to make a big difference. More importantly, it sends a very powerful message to government and world leaders that people want policies and regulations put in place that can achieve meaningful emission reduction to help fight climate change.
Encourage family, friends and local businesses to turn off all non-essential lights
on Saturday, March 27 at 8:30 pm. until 9.30 pm."
For more information on Earth Hour 2010 of if you have any health and safety
concerns, please contact WOHIS – the Windsor Occupational Health Information Service – the place to go for all your health and safety information.
Visit our library at 3129 Marentette Avenue – behind Devonshire Mall
or phone 519-254-5157.
Remember you have the right to a safe and healthy workplace!
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