By Brishti Basu | The Tyee After six months at the bargaining table, about 200 food service workers at Vancouver’s airport have voted to take strike action if their demands for pay increases …
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B.C. is closing a loophole that forced workers to cross some picket lines
By Brishti Basu | The Tyee B.C. is changing the Labour Relations Code to fix a loophole that forced some workers to cross picket lines. The change, part of a bill introduced Monday, would ensure …
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For struggling workers, Singh and Poilievre pitch different fixes
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made several stops in B.C. last week aiming to convince voters their parties have solutions for the working class. Both shared …
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By John Watson | Strathmore Times True North, formerly known as the Wheatland Crisis Society in Strathmore, Alta., is facing scrutiny from current and former employees for failures by the operating …
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Occupational Health & SafetyWorkplace News
‘I’m just stuck in limbo’: Labrador woman says she can’t work until she gets an MRI over two years after workplace accident
By Sanuda Ranawake | The Telegraph When Courtney Colbert was knocked off of a snowmobile in Nain while at work, she didn’t expect to be waiting two-and-a half-years to find out …
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CUPE workers hold informational picket to protest cost-of-living struggles in Prince Albert, Sask.
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 …