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Canada Post workers in Regina hit the picket lines as strike begins
Canada Post workers took to the picket lines on Friday morning in Regina. The sound of horns honking rippled along Saskatchewan Drive downtown as members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers walked...
Nov 15, 2024 The sound of horns honking rippled along Saskatchewan Drive as Canada Post employees walked the picket line Friday. (Abby Zeiverink/980 CJME)
Postal workers are on strike. Here's what you should know about your mail
TORONTO - Workers at Canada Post went on strike Friday in a move that is expected to create delays and other disruptions to mail and parcel delivery - just as the Crown corporation prepares for what's...
Nov 15, 2024
Canada Post workers go on strike Friday morning, disrupting deliveries
Canada Post workers are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with their employer. Canadian Union of Postal Workers says approximately 55,000 workers are striking, claiming little pr...
Nov 15, 2024
Purolator workers won't handle Canada Post packages if strike occurs, union says
Teamsters Canada says if Canada Post workers go on strike or are locked out, its members at Purolator won't handle any packages postmarked or identified as originating from the carrier. Spokesman Chri...
Nov 14, 2024
Former Rugby Canada chair Sally Dennis elected to World Rugby executive board
DUBLIN - Former Rugby Canada chair Sally Dennis has been elected to World Rugby's executive board. The Vancouver lawyer received 28 votes from the World Rugby Council, ahead of Uruguay's Sebastian Pin...
Nov 14, 2024
Workers say goodbye to an almost-empty Ontario Science Centre as repairs get underway
TORONTO - As the sun shone on an unusually warm day at the end of October, Emma Meadley Dunphy took one final, emotional stroll through the Ontario Science Centre. The centre's volunteer co-ordinator ...
Nov 14, 2024
Watchdog says Tims card brouhaha shows N.S. electoral officer needs fining power
HALIFAX - The director of a democracy watchdog says that if Nova Scotia's electoral officer had more power to levy fines, it would discourage situations such as campaign managers giving Tim Hortons gi...
Nov 14, 2024
Unions challenging government intervention in major rail, ports labour disputes
Three unions are now challenging the federal government's recent decisions to intervene in major labour disputes, saying it's undermining workers' rights. The union representing locked-out dock worker...
Nov 13, 2024
Union questions Saskatoon hotel's safety protocols after worker's death
A union president is questioning the circumstances surrounding the death of a hotel replacement worker in October, and asking what safety training and protocols are in place at the hotel after the wom...
Nov 12, 2024
Federal government moves to end port strikes, orders binding arbitration
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal. He says the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is di...
Nov 12, 2024
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