Tag Archives: labour
CUPE sounds alarm over health care working conditions
REGINA - Health care workers were sounding the alarm at the legislature Monday over the state of working conditions in the system. Opposition New Democrats stood alongside a delegation of medical tech...
Apr 01, 2025 Dexter Mercer speaks about the 50 hours of shifts he spent working on the job at Battlefords Union Hospital, as health critic Vicki Mowat, CUPE’s Bashir Jalloh and a delegation of medical technologists and technicians listen in. John Cairns
Union pushes for fair pay agreement, warns of health-care crisis
SASKATOON- Service Employees International Union-West (SEIU-West) president Barb Cape criticized the slow pace of collective bargaining with provincial health officials, saying they have barely made a...
Feb 26, 2025
Canada adds 76,000 jobs in January as unemployment rate falls to 6.6%
Canada's unemployment rate ticked down in January as the labour market added 76,000 jobs, beating economist expectations for the month. The jobless rate ticked down 0.1 percentage points to 6.6 per ce...
Feb 07, 2025
Canada Post reports $315M Q3 loss before tax compared with $290M loss a year earlier
Canada Post says it lost $315 million before tax in the third quarter compared with a loss before tax of $290 million a year earlier. The corporation says revenue growth in its direct marketing did no...
Nov 22, 2024
Federal government moves to end port strikes, orders binding arbitration
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal. The minister said Tuesday the negotiations have reached an impasse and h...
Nov 12, 2024
Port workers' union accuses BC Maritime Employers Association of ending talks early
A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early. The Inter...
Nov 10, 2024
Thousands of job seekers are descending on Regina
REGINA - Thousands of people in Regina are attending Career Fair Canada at the Queensbury Convention Centre on Wednesday. The fair sees major job corporations, including the Saskatchewan Health Author...
Oct 17, 2024
Port of Montreal dockworkers begin overtime strike, upping fears of backlogs
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 long...
Oct 10, 2024
Shipments to resume as Montreal port strike wraps up as scheduled
The union representing Montreal dockworkers has ended a three-day strike at two terminals as scheduled. The Maritime Employers Association confirmed the work stoppage came to an end at 7 a.m. at the t...
Oct 03, 2024
1800 postcards voicing concerns of CUPE healthcare workers sent to the provincial government
REGINA - A day after the Saskatchewan provincial election was called, one sector is already calling for more support from the next elected government. On Wednesday, CUPE 5430 healthcare wo...
Oct 02, 2024