Javier Palummo @jpalummo:
The ICJ has issued a landmark Advisory Opinion affirming that the right to strike is protected under ILO Convention No. 87.
A major decision for freedom of association, labour rights, social dialogue, and human rights worldwide.
Every headline is a “Mark Carney is pretty much Pierre Poilievre” headline. www.thestar.com/politics/fed…
@journodale.bsky.social:
If you’re surprised by this move, you haven’t been paying attention.
@ODSPoor:
It’s such a cult, worse than Pierre’s conmen sometimes even.
@LukewSavage:
Large swathes of the Canadian electorate have yet to fully process how right wing Mark Carney really is
Carney is one hell of a lot more right wing, anti-life, misogynistic, racist, Zionist, pro genocide and cruel than Herr Hideous inhumane Harper and Victor Orban combined. And, Carney is religious, making his evil that much worse.
@DanFmTo:
I now really worry what else he has in mind that he expect would cause significant labour strife, so that he moves now to prevent it.
@Beatsie1:
Carney threatened Eby yesterday.
do it Smith’s way or i go somewhere else to do business.
He then said the public was no place to “talk”
it should be behind close doors.
there are other words for what Carney is & far right is too gentle & incorrect.
he will have AI & control
@RealBCThinkTank:
It’s INSANE. He’s just blithely taking a wrecking ball to everything we’ve built and everything that makes us Canada – humanitarian values, civil rights, the environment, checks & balances to power — AND he’s massively increased our national debt! And it’s only been a year.
@westcoast_DJ:
Pro corporation
Pro Israel
Canadians voters ignored:
Housing
Healthcare
Gaza
Cuba
Monopolies
Gas pricing
Zero relief
@BichaelRender 2025:
When will the liberal party (and it’s supporters) accept that they have become the new progressive conservatives.
if it is of any consolation, the tiniest of cracks is forming: my liberal boomer parents are “becoming concerned” and are “not impressed” with carney. it is all over cuts to environmental protections and trying to create a war economy.
Carney government eying curbs on right to strike, labour leaders warn, The Carney government is contemplating changes to Canadian labour law that several unions say aims to designate more workplaces as “essential services” and curb the right to strike while undermining collective bargaining for others by Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau Chief, May 21, 2026, Toronto Star
OTTAWA — The Carney government is contemplating changes to Canadian labour law that several unions say aims to designate more workplaces as “essential services” and curb the right to strike while undermining collective bargaining for others.
A little-noticed discussion paper distributed April 17 seeks input from “targeted stakeholders” — employers and union representatives in federally regulated workplaces such as airlines, ports, railways, telecommunications and banking — and limits written submissions to “organizations invited by Employment and Social Development Canada.”Douche Carney! What an anti democratic slime.
It says it is looking at changes that could include new mandatory collective bargaining timelines, new designations of essential services including by sector or by geographical location, and could allow earlier intervention by the federal government to mediate or order binding arbitration in order to stabilize labour conflicts. Looks like Carney wants to destroy worker rights, like he’s destroying many of our charter rights to serve hideous stolen stupid induce-kids-to-commit mass murder and or suicide American AI and genocidal Israel
The changes cover all parts of the Canada Labour Code, the law that applies to the workplace relations and working conditions for more than one million employees across Canada.
Among them, the government says it is reviewing section 107 of the law, which allows a federal minister to direct the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to issue a back-to-work order, to impose binding arbitration and to extend the terms of expiring collective agreements.
It has set aside just four weeks for consultations which include virtual round tables — a period that was extended by an extra week to May 25, for invited parties to give feedback — an exercise that has flown under the public radar.Mr. Cowardly Evil needs to keep his abuses of Canadians secret.
Union representatives say the changes are being rushed without adequate consideration of their impact.That’s the intention == get the changes forced through fast before anyone notices more rights of Canadians have been destroyed by Carney
Christopher Monette, a spokesman for Teamsters Canada which represents some 16,000 rail workers in an industry that employs more than 37,000, said Ottawa is considering new essential service designations that he called “effectively strike bans.”
“With Trump’s trade war reshaping everything, Ottawa now appears to view strikes as a threat to efforts to diversify trade. But you can’t declare economic independence from the U.S. while importing its worst laws,” Monette said.I think it’s more of Carney forcing Canada to be more integrated with Nazi USA, whether Canadians want it or not. Like the man, his Elbows Up was a fraud.
“Sacrificing collective bargaining during a cost-of-living crisis to reassure foreign buyers is a generational mistake.”
The paper points to public and private sectors in provinces like Alberta and Ontario which have “sectoral” bargaining, that “allows for multiple employers and/or representative associations to negotiate with worker representatives at centralized bargaining tables to establish common terms and conditions across a specific sector or industry.”
It asks for views on “the strengths and weaknesses” of the current model of “decentralized, enterprise-level bargaining in comparison to labour relations based on sectoral bargaining” in most federally regulated sectors.
It also seeks comment on the prospect of new, unspecified, essential service designations “that require a certain level of services to be maintained in the event of a strike or lockout” or that would grant the federal government more opportunity to intervene to end work stoppages.
However, the paper does not specify Ottawa’s preferred options for any of the proposals it is considering.
Instead, it states only that it is looking at “revising timelines” or at other changes that might make collective bargaining, or the chances of reaching a settlement, that are “more effective.”
Other changes include: expedited grievance arbitration provisions; mandatory direct bargaining to begin within a certain unspecified time before a contract expires; changes to the current 60-day conciliation and 21-day cooling-off period before the parties get to go on strike or enforce a lockout on workers when there is no agreement; and changes to the current 72-hour notice period before a strike or lockout takes effect.
It suggests that federal mediators could “play a role in early bargaining,” and proposes creating a “special mediator” role to “provide additional support to federally regulated parties” who can’t resolve a labour dispute, ultimately reporting to a minister who could intervene.
When the discussion paper was posted online, there was no ministerial or prime ministerial news conference, just a news release that said the government is also looking at ways to improve occupational health and safety, to protect the wage security of workers when businesses change ownership or contracting hands, and to support workers facing losses due to artificial intelligence and automation.
Last fall, Railway Association of Canada president Eric Harvey warned that “numerous disruptions have had serious economic consequences and undermined global confidence in Canada’s reputation as a reliable trading partner.”
“The rail industry fully supports collective bargaining and the negotiated agreements that provide our employees with strong benefits, competitive wages and safe working conditions,” Harvey said at the Senate. “However, Canada needs a balanced and effective labour dispute resolution system that ensures stability and predictability for our supply chains and the customers who depend on them. The current regime does not achieve that.”
Now, said Monette, “the government seems to be listening to these corporate voices and is moving quite fast on some very alarming moves that we view could significantly weaken the right to strike in this country.”
Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada, is also alarmed and says Ottawa could undermine critical labour protections for the bargaining rights of workers. The union represents 70,000 workers in nearly every federally regulated sector, from aviation, rail, telecommunications, road transportation, marine transportation, media and more.
“Their freedom to bargain collectively is on the line, and with it every single protection in their collective agreement, from wages to fairness and safety on the job,” said Unifor president Lana Payne.
Payne agreed with Monette about what she called a worrying trend.
“We have seen a trend of Americanization of employers who do not want to abide by Canada’s labour laws, not just in the federal jurisdiction,” she said. “So when workers won federal anti-scab legislation, making strikes more effective, employers started pushing government to make strikes impossible, threatening the collective bargaining rights of workers.”
The Star asked Employment Minister Patty Hajdu’s office and her department for a response to the criticisms, for the government’s preferred changes, and for the time frame to introduce the legislative changes that the discussion paper suggests are coming.
Neither the minister’s office nor her department supplied answers Wednesday afternoon.
Prime Minister Mark Carney touted his agenda last year as a plan to “build, baby, build,” and has recently released a series of discussion and consultation papers on a variety of strategies to move faster to review and approve major projects and to streamline federal regulations as he strives to boost economic growth and double non-U.S. exports this decade.
“That’s over $300 billion in new orders for Canadian resources, for goods, and expertise,” he said Wednesday in Vancouver, emphasizing the need to streamline the transport of goods through efficient trade corridors including airports, rail lines and ports, “to match that ambition.”He’s a fucking liar and traitor to Canadians. Carney is putting $billions into ports and airports while prepping to privatize them, most likely sell them at below value price with a billion or two in free upgrades for his rich American friends, leaving Canadians with unsafe, shittier, now profit and greed driven services. Con man supreme.
But Monette said that in this case, the federal government is trying to do in roughly two months “what should take them about a year-and-a-half to two years.”
“The fact that they’re moving so quickly signals to us that they already know where they want to land, and they’re sort of going through the motions at this stage.”
Payne echoed that, saying a 35-day review of “the most significant piece of legislation in the federal jurisdiction” is unacceptable.
“On its face, this is an unserious, insufficient process that should worry all workers in Canada.”and worry all other Canadians, because what Carney is secretly pushing will put workers at serious risk of harm, and thereby the rest of us too.
@johnmoxin.bsky.social:
Carney’s cabinet seems completely cowed into silence. Smells like the Republican caucus, in their capitulation.
@2020willbelit.bsky.social:
I think it’s fair to ask how Israel is involved with this as they have a lot to answer for in what is happening right now in the USA (China and Russia also through American Billionaires). CarneyCON seems hell bent on making us a vassal state
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