By Evan Johnston CP Rail workers ready to strike The Teamsters and the IBEW have postponed their strike action at CP Railway, initially scheduled to begin today, after the Minister of Labour agreed to CP Railway’s request to order a forced vote on the employer’s latest offer. On Tuesday, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) Continue readingWeekly Labour Briefing – April 21
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By Evan Johnston This week: Steelworkers united in Labrador City strike, CUPE 3903 soundly defeats York University administration in forced ratification vote, Locked-out aerospace workers reject offer from D-J Composites, surveys reveal damage inflicted by Phoenix, and Casino workers in Windsor remain on strike. Steelworkers united in Labrador City strike Approximately 1,400 members of USW Continue readingWeekly Labour Briefing — April 14
By Evan Johnston Manitoba Safeway workers vote to strike This week, Safeway workers from across Manitoba have given their bargaining team an overwhelming strike mandate. UFCW 832, representing over 2,200 Safeway workers from Neepawa, Dauphin, Brandon, Thompson, and Winnipeg, have voted 98% in favour of taking strike action. Strike votes began February 26 in Brandon Continue readingWeekly Labour Briefing: March 10, 2018
More civil servants may see ‘low pay or no pay’ after new glitch found in Phoenix pay system: official | Cafeteria workers at Halifax and Dartmouth Community College campuses join union | CUPE Ontario is shocked and appalled that OMERS pension plan is investing in tax havens | Exclusive: Secretive cabinet decision limits sick days Continue readingLabour News Update: December 26 2017
Alberta’s Bill 30 | The high cost of low corporate taxes | WSIB reverses majority of denied GE Peterborough cancer claims | Union communications strategies and the #MeToo campaign | Hunter Harrison takes a dirt nap | B.C. needs a $15 minimum wage now! | The Gendered And Racialized Wage Gap | Halifax fire department Continue readingLabour News Update: December 18, 2017
BC’s Fight for $15 can’t wait | Toronto passes strict Airbnb rules aimed at preserving long-term rental supply | Alberta’s Bill 30 and the right to refuse | Stopping Sexual Abuse on the Job Begins With Empowering Workers | Suncor to appeal after random drug and alcohol testing blocked by injunction | Canadian Banks Accused Continue readingLabour News Update: December 11, 2017
Postmedia, Torstar deal will see 36 community papers closed | Keeping transit public in the age of austerity | Winnipeg transit cuts | Alberta NDP signals austerity | Royal Bank profits a record $11.5B | Bill Morneau neck deep in scandal | The price of workplace deaths | Gender pay gap persists, census data shows Continue readingLabour News Update: December 4, 2017
Sweeping updates to workplace protections become law | Workers Win Big in Ontario | Teachers union and province begin long legal journey in Bill 75 fight | Why a Toronto single mom felt ‘terrified’ after receiving a long-awaited Phoenix payroll deposit | OECD Warns on Rising Debt Risk as Canadians Most in the Red | Continue readingLabour News Update: November 26 2017
Liberals use back-to-work legislation to end Ontario college strike | Paradise Papers | Alberta NDP signals austerity | Winnipeg mayor cuts transit jobs, hikes fares | Bill 148 scheduling and equal pay amendments | Tories pledge to delay $15 minimum wage to 2022 | Stelco pension plan now administered by Morneau Shepell | Manitoba Tory Continue readingLabour News Update: November 20, 2017
Ontario college strike | Paradise Papers | SaskPower wage cut rejected | Workplace sexual harassment | Halifax Workers Action Centre | Old Port of Montreal strike for $15 | Violence against healthcare workers | Manitoba Tory legislation | Income inequality | Phoenix pay fiasco | Canada’s wars | Cape Breton coal layoffs | UAW defeat Continue readingLabour News Update: November 13 2017
Government consultation hears women in workplace under-report harassment for fear of retaliation | Phoenix continues to falter | Nova Scotia Teachers Union files Charter challenge against Bill 75 | Supervisor jailed, company fined, in death of Edmonton worker | WestJet Encore pilots unionize and flight attendants could be next | How Striking Ontario College Instructors Continue readingLabour News Update: November 6 2017
Demise of Sears Canada should be catalyst for change | College students and striking faculty face same challenges with precarious work | ‘We’re ready to talk … let’s go!’: College faculty rally on Day 10 of strike | World’s witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn | Half of workers in Continue readingLabour News Update: October 30 2017