10/31/2026
NOV 9-13: DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE!
Join the GPM and the Canadian Labour Congress - Congrès du travail du Canada for 5 days of action against Federal Bill C-39. This omnibus Bill contains sweeping rollbacks to federal labour, environmental, and Indigenous consultation legislation.
New powers will make it easier to end legal strikes and harder for workers to win fair wages and better working conditions. We want as many people as possible to meet with their MPs before Bill C-39 becomes law.
Please follow the posted link to the CLC's website to send an email & book a meeting with your MP. Help defend your rights!
The Canadian Labour Congress pushing for 4 changes to Bill C-39:
1. Remove the new Section 107 powers and protect legal strikes.
Remove the proposed expansion of Section 107 and clarify that the existing provision cannot be used to direct the end of legal strikes. Limit its use to referring questions to the Canada Industrial Relations Board, consistent with its historical purpose.
2. Establish an independent public interest panel.
Create a standing panel of independent labour relations experts to assess whether an ongoing strike has caused a genuine national economic emergency. Intervention could be considered only where there is imminent, widespread, serious, and irreparable harm to the national economy. Ordinary economic disruption would not meet this threshold.
3. Require parliamentary consideration.
The independent panel would provide its assessment to the Minister or Cabinet. If the government believed intervention was necessary, it would have to introduce back-to-work legislation for Parliament to consider, rather than ending the strike through ministerial action.
4. Ensure mediators are independent and qualified.
Require special mediators to be independent of government, experienced in collective bargaining, and trusted by both unions and employers, with a mandate to help the parties reach negotiated agreements.
The federal government is pushing for new powers that could make it easier to end legal strikes and harder for workers to win fair wages and better working conditions. We need as many workers as possible to meet with their MPs before Bill C-39 becomes law. Every meeting, letter, and call adds to t...
