MUSIC

Warsawpack, from Hamilton, Ontario: Attention Deficit

Darryl Cherney and the Chernobles, from California, with a solution to the economic crisis: Xerox the Money

Maria Dunn, from Alberta, Can you Blame the Poor Miner?

Jen C., from New York City, Rosie the Riveter

March 11 is Bottle Free Day. Evalyn Parry, from Toronto raps about out need to get rid of corporate water

Canadian bassist, Ashley Summers, from Toronto: Against the Grain

THIS WEEK IN LABOUR HISTORY

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MAR 10 2010

B.C. labour Relations Board certifies a bargaining unit of foreign migrant farmworkers

Many foreign educated professionals not working in the career they trained for

Laundry workers in hospitals in Halifax vote in favor of job action

The union representing blue collar workers in Montreal returns to the bargaining table

All eyes on parliment hill as the legislature returns after winter proprogation

During the olympics, the B.C. government held consultation on the future of ambulance service delivery

Canadian authorities limit pay increases for public workers

Strike action by public workers in Ireland is set to expand

MUSIC

Music  for International Women’s Day features an all women cast:

Anna Roland an activist from St. Louis, $2.50 a Week

Queen Cee from Hamilton, Ontario, with the classic Bread and Roses

Kris Kitko, from Chicago, telling like it is: The Bitch Song

One from an old Vancouver women band, the Welfare Starlets with Menstrual Blues

From Winnipeg blues musician, Claire Still, Every Six Minutes

Amanda Tosoff, Vancouver jazz pianist, with Stove Top

THIS WEEK IN LABOUR HISTORY

International Women’s Day calls for an update. The story most often told about its origin is a fable. Hear the truth.

NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MAR 3 2010

The results are in for a vote on final offer for faculty members of community colleges in Ontario

Provincial government of Saskatchewan reaches a tentative agreement with union representing public workers

Foreign educated professionals are not working in the area of training after arriving in Canada

The NDP in Nova Scotia are fined for accepting an illegal election contribution

No more strikes and lockouts at food stands at Vancouver Airport

China is facing an acute labour shortage

Vale Inco files a lawsuit accusing strikers of unlawful thuggery

Candlelight vigil in memory of three women farmworkers killed in van crash