Tag Archives: Labour

HALIFAX - Unionized public school teachers in Nova Scotia have voted in favour of a strike mandate. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union said 98 per cent of its more than 10,000 members voted in support Thu...

WINNIPEG - Specially trained and better equipped security staff are scheduled to start Monday at Manitoba's largest hospital - the Health Sciences Centre - in a bid to reduce violence against health-c...

REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers have withdrawn all volunteer services as they ramp up an ongoing labour dispute with the province. Meanwhile, in the legislature Monday, the governing Saskatchewan Party...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police officers stepped up pressure tactics this week over lagging contract talks - including slowing down traffic on a major Montreal highway on Tuesday. It has been two ...

HALIFAX - The minimum wage is going up today in all four Atlantic Canadian provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador is leading the way with a 60-cent increase, bringing its hourly rate to $15.60 - the hig...

TORONTO - Ontario's minimum wage will rise later this year to $17.20 an hour. The annual Oct. 1 increase is tied to inflation and is a boost of 3.9 per cent from the current rate of $16.55 per hour. L...

MONTREAL - Two volunteer firefighters who died trying to rescue two people trapped by floodwaters northeast of Quebec City last May lacked proper training and equipment, Quebec's workplace safety boar...

REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers could return to the bargaining table as early as next week to work out their labour dispute with the province. Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says federal immigration limits are undercutting her province's ability to fill jobs, grow the economy and aid those fleeing violence in war-torn Ukraine. Smith called o...

A trip to Switzerland and Paris for students at a Saskatoon high school has been cancelled as a deal between the province and Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation remains up in the air. The union has lev...