CUPE and MGEU nix Manitoba healthcare support workers strike after announcing last-minute tentative agreement
The strike would have pitted the low-paid workers against the provincial New Democratic Party (NDP) government, which in spite of pledges to improve the health care system is enforcing strict ...
The Beacon Herald3h
Trojan horse comes to Stratford in fight against health-care privatization
The union representing Ontario hospital workers is continuing its campaign against health-care privatization, this time ...
Ford Government’s New Proposal for Long-term Care Regulations Will Worsen Staffing Crisis & Erode Quality of Care for Residents, Warns CUPE
The Ford government’s plan to permanently employ lower-trained workers to replace PSWs caring for increasingly vulnerable ...
German public sector unions demand 8% pay hike
German public sector unions Verdi and dbb are demanding a pay hike of 8%, or at least 350 euros per month, for the around 2.5 ...
Brandon Sun16h
Health-care support-worker strike averted as tentative deal reached
A potential strike involving 25,000 Manitoba health-care support workers, including more than 4,700 staff in Westman, has ...
Montreal Port Dockworkers Commit to Overtime Strike for ‘Unlimited Period’
Thursday's strike by roughly 1,200 union members follows a three-day strike from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at two of the port’s ...
As CUPE works to block all-out strike at Port of Montreal, Quebec City dockworkers’ lockout enters third year
CUPE’s determination to isolate Montreal dockworkers from their class brothers and sisters until they can concoct a rotten ...
The Canadian Press on MSN2d
Montreal dockworkers set to halt all overtime work as talks drag on
Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal plan to halt all overtime work starting this later this week in a pressure tactic aimed ...
Port of Montreal reopens as striking dockworkers leave picket lines
The Port of Montreal resumes operations after a three-day work stoppage, but negotiations with dockworkers remain at an ...
CounterPunch7d
False Debate Over Sale of USX Ignores Decades of Industry Abandonment and the Need for Nationalization in the Public Interest
Here in Pittsburgh and nationwide, a false debate has erupted over the sale of US Steel (USX) to Japan’s Nippon Steel. Biden, ...
TradeWinds9d
Can Canada’s largest eastern port pick up the slack? Not while its workers are on strike too
If you thought the largest port in eastern Canada could pick up the slack for shuttered US ports, think again, at least for ...
A port strike has already hit Canada as the U.S. braces for its own massive walkouts
As the U.S. economy prepares for a potentially devastating strike across its East Coast ports, Canada is already dealing with ...