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Quebec liquor store employees walk off the job as two-day strike begins
MONTREAL - Some 5,000 Quebec liquor corporation workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a planned two-day strike amid contract negotiations with their employer. Their union - the Syndicat des empl...
Apr 24, 2024
Feds need 'nuanced' approach to ensure public sector doesn't lose tech talent: Anand
TORONTO - Treasury Board President Anita Anand says Canada has to take a "nuanced" approach to shrinking its public service in order to protect some of its tech worker ranks. Anand says she does not w...
Apr 24, 2024
Labour minister announces inquiry into costly 2023 port strike in B.C.
GATINEAU, Que. - Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says he has appointed an Industrial Inquiry Commission to dig deeper into the underlying causes of B.C.'s port strike last summer. The federal g...
Apr 22, 2024
First responders to get mental health counselling, Manitoba government says
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is funding mental health support for first responders, following the recent death of a Winnipeg firefighter. The province is committing to pay for three counsellors ...
Apr 22, 2024
Airbus workers at Quebec plant reject company's third contract offer
MONTREAL - Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which r...
Apr 21, 2024
Sask. labour lawyer breaks down difference in STF, gov't views of offer
Saskatchewan teachers are mulling over the latest offer from the provincial government, but there seems to be some daylight between how the two sides view the offer. The Government-Trustee Bargaining ...
Apr 19, 2024 Thousands were in attendance at the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation Rally on April 29, 2023. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Quebec labour code doesn't infringe rights of casino managers, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - Excluding front-line supervisors at a Montreal casino from organizing under the Quebec labour-relations regime does not infringe their constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Canada has r...
Apr 19, 2024
Retired Regina EA explains the complexity of modern classrooms
While teachers mull over the provincial government's contract offer, a Regina woman who spent 23 years in schools is explaining the reality in classrooms today and why teachers have been so set on rem...
Apr 19, 2024 Dianne Swann retired from a 23-year career as an educational assistant in February, and says people don't understand the reality of classroom complexity these days. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Difficult conversations' held with provincial bargaining committee, STF president says
The last two days of talks between the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee were full of "difficult conversations," according to federation president Samantha ...
Apr 18, 2024
Labour leader urges unions to expose Poilievre's working-class overtures as 'fraud'
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a "fraud" for portraying himself as a friend of the working class, the head of the country's largest labour organization said Thursday, urging unions t...
Apr 18, 2024
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Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
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