News
Meagan Gillmore
| The Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT) in Quebec has ruled that a portion of the province's Labour Code restricting how much certain public sector employees can strike violates the Constitution. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| Unions in Nova Scotia are asking to be included in a legal review of a bill that restricts wage increases for public servants and, they say, infringes on their rights to collectively bargain. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| The union representing workers at the University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) says recent layoffs violate the collective bargaining agreement and put students' services at risk. |
News
Teuila Fuatai
| The proposed labour law amendments under Bill 24 that would have affected collective bargaining rights was shelved this month after a successful campaign by New Brunswick unions. |
Blog
Stephen Kimber
| Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil says Nova Scotia's 75,000 public sector workers are welcome to bargain collectively -- so long as they don't expect to negotiate wages. |
Blog
Stephen Kimber
| More than 300 collective agreements are up for re-negotiation this year in Nova Scotia. Finance Minister Randy Delorey leaves little to the imagination about what the government hopes to accomplish. |
News
Joel Bakan
| The grounds for B.C. government's appeal of Supreme Court ruling for BCTF appears weak. The B.C. government should accept decision on bargaining rights and move on |
Blog
Andrew Jackson
| Unions are an important force for a more democratic society. That is why it is disturbing that Canadian conservatives have recently embraced the extreme anti-union agenda of the American right. |
Columnists
Jim Stanford
| Caught in a punishing recession that just won't end, many Americans must think they've been transported back to the 1930s. Meanwhile, U.S. labour laws are heading even further back in time. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman
| The failed effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely seen as a crisis for the labour movement, and a pivotal moment in the 2012 U.S. presidential-election season. |
News
Roger Annis
| As governments and corporations intensify their attacks on workers' rights and the social wage, a trend of growing resistance is sweeping across Canada. |
News
Roger Annis
| Government attacks against worker rights and the social wage are threatening hard-earned gains and advances for workers in Canada on many fronts and in many incremental ways. |