Graham Cox
Graham Cox is a labour union researcher at Unifor focusing on economic, bargaining, and policy in the energy, road, rail, and marine sectors.
Previous to Unifor, Graham was a researcher at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). At CUPE his work focused on economic and policy analysis for the anti-privatization, trade, post-secondary education, utilities, employment insurance, special projects, and organizing files.
Before working at CUPE, Graham served the student movement as National Researcher of the Canadian Federation of Students and chairperson of the National Graduate Caucus.
Graham has worked as a union organizer for the PSAC, CUPE, and the CFS with a focus on graduate student teaching assistant, research assistant and contingent academic staff union drives. This included leading drives to organize academic workers at the University of New Brunswick, UPEI, and Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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WTO Declares Ontario's Green Energy Act Illegal | New Fact Sheet
In December 2012, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled part of the Ontario Green Energy and Green Economy Act (GEA) illegal. A WTO panel decided that “Buy Local” conditions on wind and solar power projects, designed to ensure local development and jobs benefits to Ontarians, violate international free-trade rules. This decision exposes the very real barrier that these rules put in front of our economic and environmental policy options, and to the idea of sustainable development more generally.
Bon Appetit from Stephen Harper | PSAC - NCR Video
New video ad from PSAC National Capital Region.
If journalism is a public good, then it should be a public service | Citizens' Press
A response to Don Lenihan's article (which is a near copy of many other articles) on the coming death of independent news organizations because of their implementation of paywalls. The paywall model is the expression of more than just the decline in people buying newspapers and advertisers finding other avenues. It is an expression of the contradictions that exist between private funding and journalism as a public good.
French Prime Minister Ayrault told of European and Canadian opposition to CETA | Trade Justice Network
Rethink Child Care in Canada
'Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for young families. Early childhood educators (ECE's) also have a right to be socially valued and properly paid for their work, yet ECE professionals earn about half as much, on average, as other college-trained workers. From grandparents to economists, working parents to student parents, health care professionals to social workers, early childhood educators to university professors – and so many others – everyone has a child care story.'
Line-by-Line Rebuttal to Diane Finley on Employment Insurance Changes | Common Front for Social Justice
Bob Rae, Mark Adler and Steven Fletcher have it all wrong about CUPW's position on Palestine | Bickerton
Tory MP Mark Adler's claims that the CUPW newsletter was radical propaganda have been supported by Steven Fletcher and Bob Rae. Obviously none of them actually read the newsletter in question. It details the struggler's and courage of four Palestinian women. It is deplorable that none of these politicians ever express support for the human rights of Palestinians.
Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back into Public Hands
An animated video about bringing water back into public control. It is called re-municipalization.
Beef and Pork Access a Red Herring in CETA negotiations | National Farmers Union
(Saskatoon, SK) – CETA negotiations have ground to a standstill with Canada claiming that the stumbling block is the EU's unwillingness to provide market access for our hormone-free beef and pork. NFU research shows this claim to be hollow.