Feb 27, 2015
This week's labour news: Labour hits the books
Ella Bedard
This week in labour news: Ontario campuses and beyond!
Labour
Feb 27, 2015
B.C. Budget 2015 confirms it: We can afford the $10 per day child-care plan!
Lynell Anderson
Budget 2015 clearly shows that B.C. can afford to start implementing the $10/day child-care plan now -- and it can choose to do so without raising taxes.
Feb 27, 2015
All your wage gap questions answered
Kate McInturff
The wage gap is a thing. It exists. It isn't pretty. It is the face of discrimination. It isn't going to go away if we close our eyes and hold our breath and count to one hundred.
Feb 27, 2015
Nova Scotia Bill 1: The saga continues
Ella Bedard
The Nova Scotia government fires its arbitrator as labour work to ensure labour rights in the face of Bill 1.
Feb 26, 2015
Tireless promoters of temporary foreign workers have fallen silent...Why's that?
David J. Climenhaga
Common sense says that at this moment, when "everything has changed," the TFW program will have to change too. But don't count on common sense!
Feb 24, 2015
Yes, Patricia Arquette was talking about equal pay for ALL women
Meghan Murphy
Why willfully misinterpret Patricia Arquette's message about the wage gap?
Feb 24, 2015
Unifor reaches late-night deal with CN
Ella Bedard
Unifor and CN Rail reached an agreement minutes before the midnight lock-out deadline. Let the ratification vote begin!
Feb 24, 2015
Nova Scotia paves the way for Charter challenge to Health Authorities Act
Stephen Kimber
Last year, the McNeil government passed the Health Authorities Act, ostensibly (and laudably) to streamline Nova Scotia's health-care system, but also (and shabbily) to game that system.
NDP caucus instructed not to speak to Halifax Chronicle Herald because of press operators lockout
Paul McLeod Ottawa bureau chief for the Halifax Chronicle Herald, All of his tweets
"NDP members of Parliament have been directed not to speak to me because Chronicle Herald press operators lockout."
"Apparently speaking to a reporter who works for such an organization counts as crossing the picket line."
"As I'm the only Herald worker in Ottawa, they're essentially enacting a one-man boycott against me for now."
"Sorry Nova Scotians, but if you're wondering what the official opposition thinks of policies apparently I won't be able to tell you."
"I feel like Sun News all of the sudden."
"Cannot wait for the next time an NDP press sec talks to me about how they don't get enough coverage in my stories."
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Feb 23, 2015
Wal Mart's expansion is about profit, not people
By next January, Wal Mart will have 396 locations in Canada in a move that is more about corporate greed and capitalizing on Target's departure.
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