Healthcare workers from CUPE 5340 picketed the Victoria Hospital on Tuesday in the first of several planned information pickets to be held across the province. CUPE 5430 President Bashir Jalloh said the …
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By Hugh Kruzel | The Sudbury Star Known as RNIP, the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot has, over the five years of its activity, demonstrated value and success, supporters say, connecting …
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By Brishti Basu | The Tyee Access to child care remains one of the biggest barriers to closing the wage gap between men and women in B.C., says Véronique Sioufi, a …
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Occupational Health & SafetyWorkplace News
Stewart family has final say on fate of WSIB appeal, caseworker says
By Richard Hutton | The Lake Report It will be up to the family of a man who was injured while working as a seasonal agricultural worker in Niagara-on-the-Lake if an appeal of …
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Occupational Health & SafetyWorkplace News
Northern B.C. traffic control company fined over $18,000 by WorkSafeBC
By Tom Summer | Alaska Highway News SL Enterprizes Ltd. has been fined $18,450.06 by WorkSafeBC as of Dec. 13, 2023, following an inspection in Dawson Creek last fall. Two public …
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Deceased ship worker from Newfoundland remembered as devoted father
By Alec Bruce | Guysborough Journal The worker for Clearwater Seafood who died on the job, aboard one of its boats moored in Mulgrave earlier this month, was 36-year-old Scott Dicks from Grand …
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‘It’s a hit to the gut’: Striking Matheson workers banned from some buildings
By Marissa Lentz | TimminsToday.com Striking union members are banned from going into three Matheson facilities. CUPE Local 1490 members were recently issued a trespassing notice from the Township of Black …
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By Carol Baldwin | Wakaw Recorder A recent Statistics Canada workforce study has found that nearly one in every two women and more than a third of men 15 years and …
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Tossed by Starbucks: Barista’s union advocacy leads to controversial dismissal from Vancouver location
By Zak Vescera | The Tyee Frédérique Martineau loved Starbucks. She worked her first shift for the coffee giant at a mall in California, in the summer between her junior …
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By Zak Vescera | The Tyee You may have met Kuljeet Singh. He might have driven you to your aunt’s birthday party, picked you and your friends up after a …