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2008

Tentative Agreement Reached Between West Fraser and CEP

Saskatchewan gov’t takes giant step toward privatizing Crowns

Free Press Workers Set to Strike Monday

Free Press Workers Vote for Strike Action

Company trucks through picketers and injures worker

Pattern Settlement Reached

2nd Tentative Agreement Reached in BC’s Pulp and Paper Industry

Tentative Agreement Reached in BC’s Pulp and Paper Industry

Government exposes hidden agenda for SaskPower

CEP Local 816M has won its grievance against CTV

Smurfit employees vote to strike

CEP Local 341 ratified a new three-year Collective Agreement

CEP Workers overwhelmingly vote for strike at multi-national printing company

Canstar Community News to merge with Winnipeg Free Press

Timber West sawmill in Campbell River, announce the permanent closure of the mill

2007

Saskatchewan government turns on working people

CTV Winnipeg’s unfair mandatory retirement policy

The dispute between Local 481 and SGEU continues today

P.A. Mill Announcement is a Tragedy

The CEP members at NPG Envelope in Winnipeg today approved a new three-year collective agreement that increases the average pay by 21 per cent over the life of the contract

New media unit for Manitoba

SGEU staff in Saskatoon office off the job

Report on ALRB Protocol

2006

CEP accuses Catalyst of Smoke and Mirrors

$100 million Union Pension case at MTS to go forward Court rules

MTS Allstream’s decision to slash 345 positions, 110 of them from CEP Local 7’s bargaining unit, will reduce customer service on the front lines.

Union Tournament Scores Big for Charity

CEP Local 7 is deeply concerned for the 75 workers it represents at MTS Media

The 67 unionized employees of CTV Winnipeg (CKY) have ratified a new three-year deal

Members of CEP local 830 who work for specialty packaging company Endurapak accepted a new three-year deal

Two unionized photographers represented by Local 191 have been detained and/or arrested in the past month for carrying out their journalistic duties

CEP reaches deal to work at Horizon Union to fill hundreds of jobs on
$11-billion project

United Way employees represented by CEP Local 900G voted tonight overwhelmingly in favour of strike action

Vice-President of Canada’s Largest Forest Union Demands By-Election

Workers Safe on the Surface

CEP workers at The Tolko kraft paper mill in The Pas yesterday voted 95% in favour of accepting a wage rollback on the recommendation of the executive of Local 1403

2005

Former CEP members now have been paid the money owed to them by one of the largest printing companies in the world two years after the Company closed its Winnipeg plant and fought the employees at arbitration and in court

Union Leader Supports Libby

Weyerhaeuser shocks local union

Watch new video on the Prince Albert mill
closure

Members reject ultimatum - Port Alice workers want real collective bargaining

CEP Press Release Premier’s Task Force on Forest Development

Weyerhaeuser Closure

September 12, 2004 3rd Annual Union Tournament a hit for Charity

CEP Members at SaskPower Vote 75% In Favour of Accepting Tentative Agreement

2004


Labour Movement Stands Together (040503)

Haggard Opportunism Disappoints CEP (040428)

Recycling Plant Down (040413)

Vice-President of Canada's Largest Forest Union
Not Amused (040401)

Unions challenge BC government (040401)

Extension Granted – CEP Pleased (040303)

Settlement reached at Dearborn Ford (040225)

2003

New Agreement with Tolko (031223)

Employees at Tolko Industries find themselves outside the plant even though they aren't on strike (031223)

Manitoba Government works with CEP on Softwood (031219)

CEP Locals Send Christmas to Carnaby Workers (031219)

Trades people and training coordinators excluded from Liberal regional forums on trades training (030114)