Tag Archives: Labour

MONTREAL - Quebec's workplace health and safety board says special constables working in Montreal's transit network are not equipped with the weapons needed to address potentially dangerous and violen...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas under the program. Poilievre argues a jobs crisis among young pe...

TORONTO - Greater Toronto commuters are likely bracing for traffic and transit congestion to worsen over the coming months as a number of major employers get ready to increase in-office days. Even bef...

As thousands of British Columbia government workers hit the picket lines Tuesday, the province's finance minister said there had been communication with the union to convince its team to come back to ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia General Employees' Union says a portion of its members who work for the province's public service will begin walking picket lines Tuesday after the union issued 72-hour...

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick minister who took time off to get treatment for a brain tumour will be returning to work with a new portfolio. Premier Susan Holt says Alyson Townsend will now serve as m...

TORONTO - Ontario is removing interprovincial barriers for workers in regulated professions, allowing them greater mobility when searching for work across the country, the province said Monday. The La...

OTTAWA - A year ago, then-NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's Labour Day message to workers insisted that his party alone would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with working Canadians and the unions that work to pro...

British Columbians are facing the prospect of industrial action next week by an array of public service workers, from liquor store staff to community college instructors and municipal workers, after u...

EDMONTON - The head of the Alberta Teachers' Association declined Friday to commit to launching a provincewide strike despite last-minute contract talks with the province hitting the ditch. Union pres...