Director of Corporate Communications, Toronto Police Service, Former award winning CBC Investigative Reporter/Anchor. Thoughts & RTs my own. single mom.
I could not disagree with
@InklessPW
more. No one is putting politicians in charge of journalism. The idea is to give our Newsrooms a chance to survive.
Prior to departing Wisconsin, I was briefed on the shooting at Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.
Career News: Next week I am joining the
@TorontoPolice
Service as Director of Corporate Communications. Very excited to work with this highly skilled and dynamic team.
#DreamJob
.
@UniforTheUnion
has started an important conversation about use of scabs in Canada. Scabs are illegal in BC and Quebec. Why not everywhere else so US bosses can’t lock out workers forever cause they hate unions?
.
@lanampayne
explains all of the efforts Unifor has made to end the 630 day lockout in Gander and stop the US employer's shameful use of scabs.
#canlab
Packing list for Regina: Snow boots, snow pants, thermal layers, thermal socks, double gloves/ mits, ski mask, scarf, big parka, and a big heart because
@Unifor594
members will warm yours! They rock!
Come to Regina! Unifor members are mobilizing to support locked out
@Unifor594
refinery workers in their fight with greedy
@CoopFCL
Watch this for some great advice on how to survive a prairie picketline in the cold.
#CanLab
He inspired me to be an investigative reporter and he was fearless until the end. RIP my dear friend: Quebec crime reporter Michel Auger survived an assassination attempt /via
@globeandmail
Shame on
@CoopRefinery
boss who says they “support organizations and forums that address racism” yet he also supported a far right group linked to white supremacists who tried to bully picketing
@unifor594
workers in February.
Good morning from Gander where me and a few hundred friends are holding the picket line to try and get 30 fine Newfoundlanders back to work.
#Solidarity597
#DJLockedOut
Proud to hold the line with miners and their families. Unifor Local 16-0 on strike in Goderich. Salt mine is barricaded until they get a fair agreement with Compass Minerals.
@UniforTheUnion
#SOLIDARITY
Walking the line with these mighty sisters in solidarity with
@Unifor594
workers locked out 62 days by the greedy
@CoopRefinery
Can’t you make billions and not gut pensions f your loyal workers ?
So honoured to be nominated among these fine BC journalists for best online enterprise reporting for my Port Mann Bridge investigation. It was the last story I filed for
@CBCNews
with
@Dufresnm
and it took us a year to complete.
Yup. This is corporate greed and it is disgusting. Solidarity with
@Unifor594
members locked out since Dec 5. Locked out. Not on strike
@CoopFCL
since the facts actually matter !
Stop trying to spin your message that your employees are responsible for this labour dispute
@CoopRefinery
. What else are you lying to the public and your employees about?
#fairdeal
#skpoli
Unifor is asking labour activists across Canada to join our fight in Regina after several people were arrested, Including
@JerryPDias
on a peaceful picket line. "We will hold this line," says
@lanampayne
as as dozens more police show up
@CoopRefinery
.
#canlab
When hundreds of Unifor activists come together, we are a force to be reckoned with. See you soon across Saskatchwan says
@JerryPDias
as we stand with locked out
@unifor594
members
@cooprefinery
#skpoli
"We may be locked out over Christmas but our spirits are high and we are ready to fight," say workers on picket line in Regina today. Boycott greedy
@Cooprefinery
@CoopFCL
and help us get
@Unifor594
members back on the job:
#canlab
Here is everything you need to know about the
@CoopRefinery
lockout. A dad worried about his future says half his pension will be gone thanks to
@CoopFCL
concessions.
#CanLab
#skpoli
The Unifor communications team took home 2 awards from the Canadian Association of Labour Media this evening. Our team won the Social Media award & the 2019 Breaking Barriers Award for the Workers with DisAbilities video. Thanks to
@CanLabourMedia
!
#calm19
#canlab
.
@IrvingShipbuild
's decision to outsource 15 unionized warehousing jobs to its own subsidiary, Bayside Industries, is a shameful attack on
#Unifor
unionized workers and a way for the company to pocket more profits. Read our media release:
#canlab
Read about the $20 M offer ignored by
@CoopFCL
during a a disprespectful ploy by
@CoopRefinery
to pretend to bargain, just to restock scab camp and truck fuel out. No wonder it's day 60 lof this lock out. Media avail at 1PM
#skpoli
#canlab
@Unifor594
BREAKING: The bargaining committee of
@Unifor594
reached a tentative agreement with the employer at the Co-op Refinery.
Thank you to the Unifor members, and workers from across the country and around the world for your unwavering support.
#Unifor
#canlab
2 new directors appointed to
@ACTRAnational
senior management team:
@NatalieClancy
Director of Public Affairs & Communications; Linda Noelle Bush, Director of Performers’ Rights Society & ACTRA Recording Artists’ Collecting Society:
Unifor is urging all federal parties to condemn the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as protestors continue to deny workers access to their jobs & threaten the economic security of thousands. Read Unifor’s statement here:
#canlab
In Toronto, the average response time for the most urgent calls for service, priority one, is 22.6 minutes. In 2010, it was 12.8 minutes. We had 600 more officers then.
#SupportYourTPS
Mourning the loss of this amazing union brother who I met in 1999 when I interviewed him for a CBC National TV story about organizing offshore rigs. Little did I know the impact Brian Campbell would later have on my life.
#love
I am celebrating all women today. But especially the women, who have my back, pick me up when I fall, teach me what I need to learn and make me laugh my ass off!
#IWD2021
National President
@JerryPDias
joined hundreds of members today outside the Sask Party convention to send a message: if +2.3% is good enough for MLAs, it’s good enough for Crown workers.
#skpoli
#canlab
#myCrowns
If you're out for a Sunday drive in Halifax or Sydney, you may see some big thank you's from
#Unifor
to our acute and long-term care members in
#NS
. We value the hard work you do every day, particularly through these recent months. Solidarity!
#nspoli
#COVID19NS
#NS
Canada’s 9th most powerful person is
@JerryPDias
says
@Macleans
“The plain-spoken, hard-working, blue-collar-to-the-core head of Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, has had a big year.” Well done brother Dias!