Ontario college faculty strike | Sears execs get big bonuses | Sexual harassment in the workplace | Temporary Foreign Worker Program | CAMI workers strike, but can’t get guarantee on jobs | Public sector showdown in Saskatchewan | Grovelling for Amazon jobs | Loblaws to slash 500 jobs | Ailing GE Peterborough workers still waiting Continue readingLabour News Update: October 23, 2017
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Tentative agreement reached at CAMI | Sear closes shop in Canada fires 12,000 workers | Tentative deal for strike at Pearson airport | Ontario’s college faculty on verge of strike | Ontario pledges $1M to help ailing miners exposed to toxic dust| Unions want government-run cannabis stores in Alberta | Chaos inside the Phoenix pay Continue readingLabour News Update: October 16, 2017
‘Progress remains disappointing’: Cami union on talks with GM | ‘You will be sexually harassed’: just one of the perils of working for tips | Migrant workers use art to protest for rights, recognition, permanent status | ‘It shouldn’t be part of the job’ – CUPE campaigns against workplace violence in hospitals | ‘At a Continue readingLabour News Update: October 2 2017
CAMI strike | Pension reform | Alberta health & safety | Nova Scotia wage freeze | Fraser Institute $15 study flaws | Winnipeg hospital workers | Phoenix payroll failure | Manitoba Fight for $15 | UAW-FCA corruption | Hotel workers vs immigration raids CAMI strike can renew fight against NAFTA Gerard Di Trolio and Doug Continue readingLabour News Update, September 25 2017
Union blames fewer staff, high mail volume for long days in Tecumseh | Ontario college faculty members vote in favour of strike mandate | Good jobs improve health and profits | City still wants to farm out sick day management at Saskatoon Transit | Sears case shows the risk of defined benefit pensions for employees Continue readingLabour News Update: September 18 2017
Undercover in Temp Nation | How not to oppose free trade with China | NAFTA Renegotiations | Almost half of Canadian employees living paycheque to paycheque | Teamsters strike at Pearson airport | Dockworkers show how the labour movement can shutdown fascists | Canadian Taxpayers Federation gets it wrong on public sector sick days | Continue readingLabour News Update: September 11, 2017
Workers take on Cineplex management in Quebec | Labour day | B.C. NDP abandons 2021 deadline to reach $15 minimum wage | NSGEU gives notice of charter challenge to Bill 148| Teamsters strike at Pearson airport | First responders and mental health | Phoenix pay crisis | Union employees on strike at Holiday Inn Express Continue readingLabour News Update: September 4, 2017
NSGEU turns up heat over loss of retirement bonus for Nova Scotia’s public sector | Union demands TTC stop using contract workers after serious workplace accident | GE closing down Peterborough plant | How today’s unions help working people | ATI documents show government still spending millions on flawed Lean projects | Nearly half of Continue readingLabour News Update: August 28 2017
| Eaton Centre Uniqlo workers seeking to unionize | Hamilton council confirms that it wants HSR to run LRT | Help on way for ailing miners exposed to ‘miracle’ dust | Standing at work linked to heart disease | Re-engaging unions in the fight against fascism | Meet 2 women sick of sexism and discrimination in mining | Mexican Workers March in Protest at NAFTA Continue readingLabour News Update: August 21, 2017
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions show solidarity with striking baggage handlers at Pearson Airport | Foreign Farmworkers in Canada Fear Deportation if They Complain | Unifor occupation of Milton plant comes to end after cease and desist order issued | Cape Breton union leader Carmie Erickson was ‘at her best fighting for people’ | Toppled Continue readingLabour News Update August 14 2017
700 baggage handlers, ground crew at Pearson Airport on strike | How the government could have helped Sears workers | Injured workers group renews calls for review of Nova Scotia WCB | Introducing the Vancouver Tenants Union | Alberta lacks rules and thresholds for working in heat | Calgary Board of Education may layoff up Continue readingLabour News Update: July 31 2017
| #BoycottSearsCanada | Farm fatality highlights gaps in Alberta’s new Employment Standard Code | Bill 148: The Sky is not falling | Ottawa hires consultants to advise on airport sell-offs | A brief history of Ontario employers crying wolf over the minimum wage | 340 jobs axed at Siemens wind turbine plant in Tillsonburg | Continue readingLabour News Update: July 24, 2017