Unions craft common agenda

Staff from nine Ontario unions and the Federation of Labour met Dec. 8 to begin work on a common response to the jobs and public services crisis facing the province.

Left to right: Antoni Shelton, CUPE Ontario/Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL); Lori Foote, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation; Mary Morison, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario; Sheila Keenan, OFL; Sheila Block, OFL, Lawrence Walter and Peter Birt, Ontario Nurses Association; Louis Erlichman, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW); Erin Weir, United Steelworkers; Frank Saptel, IAMAW; Corey Vermey, Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Megan Park and Randy Robinson, OPSEU; Mike Belmore, OFL; Lisa Blanchette, Service Employees International Union; Shannon Devine, CAW. Also present at the meeting but missing from this photo was Mike Luff, National Union of Public and General Employees.

For more on labour’s approach, read President Warren (Smokey) Thomas’s latest message.