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Canada Post, union, still disagree over weekend delivery following weekend talks

Canada Post, union, still disagree over weekend delivery following weekend talks

Nov 5, 2024 | 9:46am
Canada Post and the union representing its workers are commenting on how weekend talks for a new contract went, with the employer calling them less productive than they’d hoped and the union claiming their employer is focused on flexibility to deliver parcels at the lowest possible cost. The Crown corporation says in a news release […]
B.C. ports shuttered as lockout takes hold in latest labour dispute

B.C. ports shuttered as lockout takes hold in latest labour dispute

Nov 5, 2024 | 8:49am
One of Canada’s most vital trade arteries is cut off as employers at most of British Columbia’s ports lock out their workers in a dispute involving about 700 unionized foremen. The BC Maritime Employers Association says it defensively locked out members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 after the union began strike […]
Port of Montreal dockworkers begin overtime strike, upping fears of backlogs

Port of Montreal dockworkers begin overtime strike, upping fears of backlogs

Oct 10, 2024 | 10:08am
Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal have halted all overtime work in a pressure tactic targetting management as contract talks continue. The overtime strike by the union representing nearly 1,200 longshore workers at the port kicked off as planned at 7 a.m. EDT on Thursday, the Maritime Employers Association confirmed. The union has said scheduling […]
Cockrill offers to put accountability framework into legislation

Cockrill offers to put accountability framework into legislation

Apr 9, 2024 | 5:04am
 With Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation members expanding to work-to-rule job action this week across the province, details have emerged about the efforts from the province last week towards trying to get both sides back to bargaining. Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill confirmed to reporters one new development in the back-and-forth discussions between the government and STF: that the province had proposed […]

Union rescinds 72-hour B.C. port strike notice that had been set for Saturday

Jul 19, 2023 | 7:04pm

The union representing longshore workers in British Columbia says it has rescinded 72-hour strike notice that had sparked concerns the province’s ports could be shut down again by Saturday. In a brief note to its member locals, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada says that effective immediately the strike notice dated for July 22 […]

Tentative four-year deal reached in B.C. port strike, subject to ratification

Jul 13, 2023 | 2:09pm

A tentative deal has been reached between employers and workers in the strike that has halted shipments in and out of British Columbia ports for nearly two weeks. A statement from the B.C. Maritime Employers Association says it has reached a four-year agreement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada, which represents 7,400 workers […]

Dispute arises between APAS and Saskatchewan government

Dec 2, 2021 | 1:55pm

  There has been a dispute between APAS and the provincial government. APAS expressed concern that farmers were being unfairly blamed for the province’s deficit due to crop insurance payments. Finance minister Donna Harpauer says there is no blame attached to financial statements required by law. Harpauer is disappointed with APAS, saying an insinuation the […]

Century-long dispute over land in Sask reaches tentative settlement

Dec 9, 2019 | 2:40pm

A 100-year-old dispute over reserve size has come to a tentative settlement. The dispute with Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation centred around Canadian officials taking away half of the original reserve land for returning non-Indigenous soldiers in the First World War, stated a release from the First Nation. The proposal would see the federal government […]

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