| Sears layoffs and executive bonuses | Government to intervene in Chronicle Herald strike | OLG lockout | Hamilton transit union fights privatization | Fight for $15 wins: how to beat the employers’ counter offensive | Aging delivery trucks poisoning postal workers | Temp agencies on rise in Ontario | BC hospital support service workers Continue readingLabour News Update: July 17, 2017
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Manitoba public-sector unions launch court challenge over wage freezes | Disappearing jobs in NL | Push for automatic compensation for workers exposed to General Electric toxins in Peterborough | British Columbia Supreme Court upholds container truck driver wage ‘floor’ | Conservative policies to blame for trouble at Canada Post | Pacific Blue Cross locks out Continue readingLabour News Update: July 10 2017
Winnipeg and union in disucussion about waste collection | Feds replace unionized cleaners at National Research Council offices in Halifax | Ottawa spends $1.2M on travel for Phoenix training boot camp | Ontario gets it right with move to higher minimum wage | Stelco set for ownership change Friday | Workers Occupy Factory to Keep Continue readingLabour News Update: July 3, 2017
| Chronicle Herald strike | Grenfell fire | Austerity in Saskatchewan | Tentative agreement reached with PWL Cold Lake | Maritime forestry workers rally for fair trade for softwood | RBC cuts 450 jobs | Possible LCBO strike | Hamilton transit union fights outsourcing | Random drug testing of TTC | Quality-of-life issues at centre Continue readingLabour News Update: June 26, 2017
Vancouver workers mark public service week with Phoenix pay system protest | Construction union, Assembly of First Nations sign pact to promote Indigenous workforce | Sabotaged cars and threats of assault: Why CUPE felt it had to take control of Montreal’s blue-collar union | Union wants higher base wage for all at YVR | New Continue readingLabour News Update: June 19 2017
| Quebec construction strike | $15 and Fairness | Lockout in small town Saskatchewan | Presenting your grievance to management | Davis Day | Hospital workers rally for increased funding | Possible LCBO strike | Remembering Stan Raper | NAFTA’s dirty secret | Jail sentence for boss who owed workers $125,000 | Liberals break pension Continue readingLabour News Update: June 12, 2017
$15 minimum wage | Quebec construction strike | Trudeau infrastructure bank | Calgary postal workers | Cold Lake seniors home lockout | Saskatchewan school bus cuts | Hamilton steelworkers | TTC subway air | Sudbury transit safety | Edmonton transit workers Experts decry back-to-work legislation in Quebec construction strike Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette May 30 Continue readingLabour News Update, June 5 2017
Pipemakers in Regina vote for a strike authorization | Union gives CN Rail 72-hour strike notice | Accused of underpaying women, Google says it’s too expensive to get wage data | Winnipeg Harvest food bank ‘blindsided’ by staff unionization vote | Public servants could be waiting until 2018 for raises, back pay | No deal Continue readingLabour News Update: May 29 2017
Striking Zoo workers using puns against management | GE report on Peterborough workers’ health makes ‘other evidence’ clear | Union vows to fight move giving railways access to video recorders data | Local roofer gets day in jail, fine | Flex-N-Gate ratification vote fails; members strike | Irving Oil could profit from new element of Continue readingLabour News Update: May 22 2017
WestJet pilots unionize | Westray 25th annivesrary | CHS strike ends | Stelco pensions | Canada Post home delivery | $15 in Ontario? | Saskatchewan corporate handouts | BC Liberal donor corruption | Manitoba wage freezes | Alberta’s Bill 7 | Soo OLG first contract | Unions battle at Sudbury hospital | Trudeau’s infrastructure bank Continue readingLabour News Update, May 15 2017
May Day marches around the world | Contentious CLC report on ATU crisis falls short | STF opts for binding arbitration | Liberals give investors extraordinary control over infrastructure bank | CNA cuts will have wide impact | Toronto Zoo workers prepare for strike or lockout | Documents expose dangers of Liberal privatization bank | Continue readingLabour News Update May 8 2017
Day of Mourning | CHS Strike | Nova Scotia Election | BC Election | Manitoba nurses protest | Ontario budget | Ontario Hydro CEO salary jumps to $3.8 million | Union slams TTC over subway air pollution study, raises concerns about worker health | Basic Income pilot |LCBO workers vote 93% to strike over contract demands |Precarious young retail workers |Most Canadians think Continue readingLabour News Update: May 1, 2017