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Former Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has raised an alarm over the neglect of youths in the country. He raised the alarm in his keynote at an evening conference for civil society leadersin Abuja, on Wednesday. The event themed, 'Forging a Common Front for Sustainable Development as…

In Toronto and York Region, we are witnessing an alarming rise in anti-democratic, anti-worker motions being introduced by municipal Councillors. Using

Nurses and public sector workers can make no gains based on a strategy of pressuring the unions and the government. They must turn to the rest of the working class and mobilize its immense power in a counter-offensive against the entire austerity program of the ruling class.

Despite the militancy of the rank and file and immense public support, the nationalist pro-capitalist unions succeeded in running our struggle into the ground. If we are to prevail, the rank-and-file must build new organizations of struggle that fight to mobilize the social power of the working class, industrially and politically.

National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Philippe-Pinel union members in Montreal have given their 88 per cent approval to the agreement in principle reached with their employer on the renewal of their collective agreement.

The Quebec public service workers union (Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec - SPGQ), which represents 24,000 employees, is asking for the intervention of a conciliator in the negotiations surrounding the renewal of its members collective agreement.

Members of Quebecs inter-union Common Front have voted 74.8 per cent in favour of the agreements in principle reached with the provincial government.

Some 420,000 unionized public sector workers have voted 74.8 per cent in favour of accepting an agreement in principle reached with the Quebec government.

After a long and difficult negotiation with public sector employees, another discussion is about to begin with 13,000 workers in family daycares and CPEs.

Negotiations are set to begin in Quebec City with 13,000 workers in family daycare services and childcare centres – knowns as CPEs.