Tag Archives: Labour

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...

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...

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...

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...

MONTREAL - Law professors at McGill University were on the picket line Thursday, forcing the cancellation of classes during the first week of the fall semester in protest of the school's challenge to ...

MONTREAL - Unions representing longshore workers at the country's major ports are promising to put pressure on the federal government if it won't commit to staying out of potential labour disputes in ...

You're a few weeks into your new job and payday has arrived. But reading your first paystub, it's a little unclear what all of these deductions mean. After all, the exact amount of your biweekly direc...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending his government's move to call for binding arbitration and force an end to a work stoppage at the country's two major railways. Trudeau says it was...

HALIFAX - A new report is calling on provincial governments in Atlantic Canada to do more to bridge a gap between what people earn and what they need to pay for their basic needs. The report by the No...

MONTREAL - A union representing McGill University law professors said its members walked off the job Monday, the first week of classes for the fall semester, over what it described as the school's ant...