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Quebec labour tribunal orders McGill to stop obstructing union of law professors
MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has ordered McGill University to stop obstructing and interfering with a union representing full-time law professors amid an ongoing strike over what the union says...
Sep 02, 2024
In dueling TV ads, NDP and Conservatives try to define Poilievre to union voters
Federal Conservatives and New Democrats agree on very little, but one point of consensus has emerged in recent months - labour issues will play a key role in the next federal election. Both parties ha...
Sep 02, 2024
Manitoba's NDP government caught in fiscal squeeze during first year
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government, approaching the first anniversary of its election victory, is facing a fiscal squeeze as it tries to fulfil promises to cut living costs, give more money to publi...
Sep 02, 2024
Liberal immigration pivot forces Canada to reckon with approach to labour shortages
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's decision to reel in the temporary foreign worker program after loosening the rules to help businesses find workers after the pandemic is sparking a contentious debate...
Sep 01, 2024
Federal Court agrees to hear case about public servants' return to office mandate
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has agreed to review the federal government's decision to mandate public servants return to the office three days per week. The mandate, which is set to begin on Sept. 9, wa...
Aug 30, 2024
Hotel workers in 3 Quebec cities, including Montreal, hold another 24-hour walkout
MONTREAL - About 2,500 workers at 22 hotels in some of Quebec's biggest cities have launched a one-day strike to protest an impasse in contract talks. The walkout at hotels in Montreal, Quebec City an...
Aug 30, 2024
Health authorities reach tentative deal with 9,000 workers in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - A tentative contract deal has been reached between Nova Scotia's health authorities and three unions representing about 9,000 health-care workers. In a news release, the Council of Health Un...
Aug 30, 2024
Quebec nurses threaten to stop working overtime as talks continue for new contract
MONTREAL - A Quebec union representing 80,000 health-care workers dismissed the province's latest contract offer Friday and called on its members to refuse to work overtime beginning Sept. 19. Fdratio...
Aug 30, 2024
Teamsters launch court appeal of Ottawa’s move to end rail shutdown
MONTREAL - The union representing thousands of railroaders has appealed the federal government's move that ended last week's rail shutdown - a work stoppage that halted freight and commuter traffic ac...
Aug 30, 2024
Ottawa's move to end rail shutdown prompts debate over workers' rights
MONTREAL - Workers' rights are once again under the microscope after last week's massive railway work stoppage was abruptly halted when the federal government intervened less than 17 hours after the s...
Aug 30, 2024
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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