http://cmkl.ca Chris Lawson's personal website Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:54:34 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2268 handsomely profitable corporation buys a London Ontario locomotive factory in June 2010 and promptly tells the 465 or so members of the CAW local there that they'll have to cut their wages in half and give up their pension plan to keep their jobs. Things lead to things and on New Year's Day the company locked out the workers. ]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:53 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2261 cheesey hippie song from the sixties. À propos of nothing, really, except this. No, I'm not expecting Stephen Harper will start getting together and trying to love all the low-income seniors he'd screw out of two years of OAS even as the F-35s scream overhead. ]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/feed/ 4 http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:46:33 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2096 Postmedia item has had me in a lather all day. It's not just that they're whipping up the faithful against the people I work for. That always bothers me but it's ah... not new to me.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/feed/ 1 http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/16/caw-and-cep-talking-merger-wow/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/16/caw-and-cep-talking-merger-wow/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:24:23 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2068 http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/16/caw-and-cep-talking-merger-wow/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/24/bribing-your-audience-how-much-do-contests-matter-to-email-open-rates/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/24/bribing-your-audience-how-much-do-contests-matter-to-email-open-rates/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:21:12 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=1985 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/24/bribing-your-audience-how-much-do-contests-matter-to-email-open-rates/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/18/yeah-see-oc-transpo-driver-had-a-story-too/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/18/yeah-see-oc-transpo-driver-had-a-story-too/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:45:20 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=1969 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/18/yeah-see-oc-transpo-driver-had-a-story-too/feed/ 1 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/07/air-canada-arbitration-so-what-was-that-decision-all-about/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/07/air-canada-arbitration-so-what-was-that-decision-all-about/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:10:01 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=1936 union was not. But then, this is Lisa Raitt's shop, we could have predicted that, right? So here is my understanding - as an outsider - of what was at stake.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/07/air-canada-arbitration-so-what-was-that-decision-all-about/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/04/dear-commerical-media-quit-using-union-boss-to-describe-our-leaders/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/04/dear-commerical-media-quit-using-union-boss-to-describe-our-leaders/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:40:15 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=1923 I know y'all are into brevity and everything. I'm with you. But is the pain of adding three extra characters to your titles and content really so onerous that you have to completely misrepresent the relationship between someone who is the head of a union and her or his members?]]> http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/04/dear-commerical-media-quit-using-union-boss-to-describe-our-leaders/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/02/writing-web-content-for-union-members-is-it-public-voice-or-intimate-voice/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/02/writing-web-content-for-union-members-is-it-public-voice-or-intimate-voice/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:56:49 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=1918 http://cmkl.ca/2011/11/02/writing-web-content-for-union-members-is-it-public-voice-or-intimate-voice/feed/ 2 http://cmkl.ca/2011/10/24/welcome-to-toronto-mister-president/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/10/24/welcome-to-toronto-mister-president/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:20:34 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/2011/10/24/welcome-to-toronto-mister-president/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/10/24/welcome-to-toronto-mister-president/feed/ 0