Tag Archives: Labour

A union president is questioning the circumstances surrounding the death of a hotel replacement worker in October, and asking what safety training and protocols are in place at the hotel after the wom...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal. He says the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is di...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has given 72-hour strike notice to Canada Post. The notice is for both the union's urban and rural and suburban bargaining units. READ MORE: Canada Post, ...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is urging both sides in the British Columbia port dispute to return to the table after Saturday's collapse of mediated talks to end the lockout at container terminal...

HALIFAX - As Nova Scotia politicians make their fall election promises, Julie Leggett is urging them to commit to helping people on income assistance stay cool during heat waves. The resident of New G...

VANCOUVER - The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that th...

MONTREAL - The clock is ticking on a threat by the employers association at the Port of Montreal to lockout some 1,200 dockworkers if their union doesn't agree to a deal Sunday on what it calls a fina...

HALIFAX - A lot has changed in Nova Scotia since the Progressive Conservatives won a dominant electoral majority in the 2021 election with a targeted focus on health care. And while the health system ...

VANCOUVER - Contract negotiations in a labour dispute that has paralyzed container cargo shipping at British Columbia's ports since Monday have been called off. In an update posted to their website on...

EDMONTON - Longtime Alberta bureaucrat Ray Gilmour has been appointed interim leader of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, the Crown agency set up to manage public pensions and investments...