[cupetoday] for Friday September 26, 2008

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Title: CUPE Today

• Trade: EU trade talks: no secrecy

  Stephen Harper must end his secrecy surrounding Canada-EU trade talks and make it an election issue.

• Global Justice: Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: another Conservative blunder

  CUPE is reminding the public of the dangers of the Conservative’s proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia.

• Economics: Economic Climate for Bargaining - September 2008

  Wall Street is in the midst of its worst financial crisis since the great depression. There have been many booms and busts in recent years, but this one will be of a different magnitude because it combines a crash of both stock market and housing values, and it is likely to be more global in scope. The September 2008 issue of the Economic Climate for Bargaining outlines some of the potential impacts for Canada. The report also includes: Recent average economic forecasts of main economic indicators for Canada A discussion of job trends this year Analysis of recent increases and expectations for inflation and wage settlements

• Privatization: Privatization creeps into Ontario social services

  Privatization is creeping into Ontario’s social services behind the mask of “choice.”

• Privatization: Privatization, contracting out of public services in The Kawarthas comes at high cost – CUPE

  Privatization and contracting out of public services to for-profit operators by the City of Kawartha Lakes, Trent University and the Peterborough Regional Health Centre will come at a high cost to residents of Lindsay and Peterborough if not stopped, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

• Bargaining: Emergency dispatchers review options, after talks fail to produce settlement

  Yorkton/Saskatchewan: Emergency dispatchers employed by Med-Com Comprehensive Dispatch Systems were hopeful they finally would see a fair contract offer from their employer, when bargaining resumed yesterday evening. The dispatchers, members of CUPE Local 4859, voted 100% in support of taking job action at a membership meeting earlier this month.

• Bargaining: CBRM Crossing Guards Reach Tentative Agreement

  (Sydney) – CUPE Local 761, representing 70 crossing guards with the CBRM Board of Police Commissioners, has reached a tentative agreement in their contract talks.

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