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News, 2008-9

Society Newscasts and NewsFLASHes, 2008-2009

2008:07, March 31, 2009

  • AMEC NSS Local settles in two-party bargaining
  • Board highlights: March, 2009
  • Nuclear women on a roll
  • “Mix and match” pension benefits legal: Everyone knows but the Employer
  • Member drive ups OEB Local participation
  • Hydro One Local member vying for OSPE Board re-election

2008:06, February 17, 2009

  • Fossil units here to stay
  • Board highlights: January-February, 2009
  • Society gets behind anti-poverty doc
  • Indemnification of Executive Board approved
  • Huang elected New Horizon Local VP
  • OEB Local settlement ratified
  • Nuclear support still growing in Ontario
  • Labour: Federal budget hardly stimulates
  • “Great Glasses” not so great
  • Freedom of Information: Ontario tied for last

2008:05, December 22, 2008

  • OEB Local gets first agreement!

2008:05, December 15, 2008

  • Inergi settlement ratified
  • Happy holidays!
  • Board highlights: December, 2008
  • Referendum to indemnify Society Executive Board
  • Pleased with Pension Commission recommendations
  • OPG told to pay Society for Agreement breach
  • Dale new Kinectrics VP
  • Arbitrator rules benefits coordination discrimination not illegal
  • Domain name change

2008:04, November 20, 2008

  • Inergi Local gets new agreement
  • Council OKs strategic framework
  • Council approves Constitution changes, referendum to indemnify
  • Council approves Minello as VP, makes other appointments
  • Long-term nuclear waste personnel spun off to NWMO
  • Winnipeg professionals to affiliate with IFPTE
  • Stanford: stoke the real economy!
  • Demographic survey launched
  • IFPTE hires new organizer
  • IEA: Nuclear capacity must grow 80% by 2030
  • Poll shows growing UK public support for nuclear

2008:04, October 3, 2008

  • Offshoring: We've won!

2008:03, September 22, 2008

  • Labour Day 2008 – Women Rising & Organizing
  • Board Highlights, July – September
  • Female activists back from school
  • Inergi, Society both found in breach of confidentiality
  • Society / Inergi grievance marathon
  • Society talks labour at Harvard
  • Executive Board preparing demographic survey of members
  • New elections guidelines
  • Labour Council: Low wages, disappearing jobs no good for anyone
  • Meet Laura Brownell
  • Meet Greg Spencer

2008:02, June 17, 2008

  • New nuclear on the way for Darlington
  • Board Highlights, May 6 and June 3, 2008
  • OPG, government working together on biomass
  • Minello appointed EVP - Member Services
  • Pensioners’ Chapter membership quintuples, gets new Executives
  • Feds stealing EI contributions, unions say
  • CLC: Here come three more years of action
  • Labour in solidarity with First Nations: CLC
  • Federal changes protect workers’ wages
  • Fight the “growing gap”: economists at the CLC
  • IFPTE endorses Obama for U.S. President

2008:03, April 14, 2008

  • Offshoring scheme delayed
  • Arbitrator: No OPG offshoring before November

2008:01, May 5, 2008

  • Mourning the dead, protecting the living
  • Board Highlights, Budget and April
  • Inergi Local fights for important anti-offshoring right
  • Hydro One to appeal partial pension wind-up ruling
  • Citizens’ group forms to stump for Bruce new-build
  • Travers acclaimed IESO Local VP
  • CEA touts “integrated” North America electricity markets
  • The World's Electricity: New Zealand electricity network not “strategic”

2008:02, April 10, 2008

  • Sheppard: Offshoring not an option

2008:01, April 7, 2008

  • Sheppard to serve as President till 2010