I finally had a chance to record/edit an episode of Rebel Time Radio from a recent show on Nov. 2nd. Take a listen, next show will be a continuation of this one, full of corrections, fact checking and follow up...including an in studio interview with the folks over at Poverty Makes Us Sick! (KW group). Music for motivation & helping to build a culture of resistance!

Featuring a revolutionary themed playlist with music from Germany, Ireland, U.K., Italy, Spain, Catalunya, Basque, Russia, & North America. We also play both songs from the new Rebel Time release "Treason 45" by The Class Assassins and chat about Occupy Movement, the Oakland General Strike and finish off with an interesting mix of tunes going from hip-hop, to dub then to some grind/crust!

CUPW postal workers & supporters take action at Canada Post head office

Action in Ottawa at Canada Post head office in response to a lockout by the company coupled with demands for concessions, and back-to-work legislation. Thursday June 16, 2011.

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By Greg Macdougall
Originally published at rabble.ca | May 19, 2011

Postal service in Canadian cities is in jeopardy from next week if last-minute negotiations between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) do not succeed in coming to an agreement. The possibility of a strike by the union or lockout by management comes into effect on midnight May 24, with a 72-hours notice being given before any such action is taken.

Migrant farm workers stage wildcat strike to demand thousands of dollars in unpaid wages: Employer responds with deportation

November 23, 2010

(Simcoe, Ontario) Over a 100 migrant farm workers employed at Ghesquiere Plants Ltd. are facing imminent repatriation (deportation) after staging a wildcat strike to demanding thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.

The migrant workers from Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados came together across racial, linguistic and ethnic lines to organize this wild cat strike and strengthen their collective power. The workers employed by this farm described numerous rights violations and complaints about their living conditions including the following:

• Workers are each owed from $1000 to $6000 in unpaid wages
• Workers are to be evicted and will be homeless as of Thursday, November 25th, 2010
• Most of the Mexican and Trinidadian workers will be repatriated by this Thursday. All Jamaican
workers have been repatriated.

January 06, 2010
By Brent Davis, Record staff

With only a week left before a strike vote that could send about 9,000 college teachers onto picket lines at 24 campuses across Ontario, both sides admit they’re not optimistic about a return to the bargaining table.

“The short answer is there’s really not much to report on” since negotiations broke off in mid-December, said Greg Hamara, spokesperson for the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union.

“We’re quite a ways apart on the overall package,” said Don Sinclair, executive director for the council representing the colleges. “Really, it’s now in the hands of our faculty to decide if there’s going to be a strike.”

Caught in the middle are students like Jason Paul, in the first year of a public relations program at Conestoga College.

“A lot of students are really stressed out about what’s going to happen,” Paul said. “Since I’m a first-year, I’m not quite sure what to expect.”

By Shawn Doyle

OTTAWA — The strike at the Museum of Civilization and War Museum has been dragging on since Sept. 21, and it's not getting any easier. Management at the museums "have hired a private film crew that is trying to catch us doing illegal stuff, but (it) has not succeeded," said Ralph Brassard, a striking tour guide with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). "They have hired scabs," he added.

PSAC Regional Executive Vice President Maria Fitzpatrick has confirmed the museums "have been using workers from the U.S. and international firms to replace the museum professionals that are on strike." Fitzpatrick says management is also using security firms to "harass" workers on strike, calling it "shameful that Canadians' tax dollars are best spent in this manner, rather than resolving the strike and allowing the museum workers to return to their jobs."

Ottawa prepares to order end to CN strike

Recovery too fragile to risk, government says
Last Updated: Monday, November 30, 2009 | 11:27 AM ET

Labour Minister Rona Ambrose is preparing legislation to order 1,700 locomotive engineers at Canada's biggest railway back to work.

A government release Monday says legislation could be introduced if CN and the Teamsters union representing the engineers are unable to negotiate a settlement.

It says a strike threatens the country's fragile economic recovery, observing that the ports of Halifax and Prince Rupert rely entirely on CN for train service, while the company handles half of the rail shipments through Vancouver and 30 per cent of the service at Montreal.

The legislation would order an end to the three-day strike immediately and send all the issues to binding arbitration.

By Alex Balch

LONDON, Ont. — Workers of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 741 went on strike at midnight Nov. 16, when the deadline for a new contract passed unheeded by their employer, the London Transit Commission (LTC). ATU-741 represents 450 bus drivers, maintenance workers and support staff, and the strike has effectively paralyzed London’s public transit system.

The workers of the LTC have been without a contract since June. Chief among their demands are regularly scheduled lunch breaks, a 12 per cent wage increase over three years and improvements to dental and short-term disability benefits. The union has repeatedly requested arbitration as a means of settling the dispute, but their requests have been blocked by LTC general manager Larry Ducharme and the city’s mayor, Anne Marie DeCicco-Best.

By Scott Neigh
August 1, 2009

More than 3300 employees of mining giant Vale Inco are on strike in Sudbury, Ontario, and in other Canadian communities to defend decades' worth of gains. Beyond that, the strike by members of Locals 6500 and 6200 of the United Steel Workers of America also raise important questions about how unions orient themselves towards their communities and towards the nation-states in which their members live.

There are a number of "very provocative issues for the men" in the company's demands, according to a 21-year veteran of Inco's transportation division who requested to remain anonymous when interviewed at a picket line in the Sudbury community of Copper Cliff.* He pointed out, "There's absolutely no monetary raise in this contract" and no expectation by the members that there would be one, given the low price of nickel and the state of the global economy.

On Tuesday July 14 Deputy Premier, or according to him “Citizen”, George Smitherman launched “One Toronto” a website networking volunteer scabs to pick up garbage in Toronto in the midst of a 4 week long strike by the civic workers unions CUPE 416 and 79.

Posing for media photos with a broom in hand, Smitherman had the bald faced audacity to claim that he wasn't taking sides in the strike but rather ““We’re taking one side and one side only — the side of clean streets in our city,”

Smitherman knows he can't come out and say he's organizing brigades of volunteer scabs to further his political career but that's exactly what he's doing.