The fate of eight employees who looked after maintenance of the Ship Hector in Pictou is in the hands of negotiators.Kim Cail, national representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said the union and town are in talks to determine if there are jobs available with the town if the Hector Heritage Quay is purchased [...]

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The union representing striking Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) workers said it will do its best to keep traffic flowing through its picket lines at the entrance to Laurentian University as students return to class this week.Tyler England, chair of OPSEU Local 677’s bargaining team, said he has met with representatives of Laurentian and [...]

MONTREAL – Issued on the lip of Labour Day, the signal appears unmistakable.A long-running labour dispute at the Journal de Montréal is now expected to extend into another phase in late October – with an announcement issued before the long weekend that the newspaper’s locked-out editorial and office employees are gearing up to begin publishing [...]

As workers at the Delta Brunswick hotel and Brunswick Square shopping complex head into their seventh day on strike, Fortis Properties and United Steelworkers Local 1-306 will return to the bargaining table today.Lawrence McKay, Atlantic co-ordinator of United Steelworkers, the union representing the workers, said the two sides will resume talks today at 9:30 a.m. [...]

Hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency, home of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, have started a one-day walkout.Their union, UNITE HERE, says the walkout began after talks with the hotel owner ran past a midnight deadline without a new agreement.The union says picketing is to begin at 7:30 a.m., followed by a rally of hotel workers and [...]

Conductors, yardmen and traffic co-ordinators at Canadian National Railway (CN) expect to know by the end of this month whether they have a mandate to walk off the job.The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, whose bargaining unit in this case includes about 2,700 unionized CN employees, said Sunday its negotiations with the Montreal-based company broke down [...]

Thunder Bay Transit workers are frustrated after going more than a year without a contract, and that‘s part of the reason they voted 96.6 per cent on Sunday in favour of a strike, their union president said Monday.Charlie Brown, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 966, said the City of Thunder Bay asked the more [...]

If Ontario goes ahead with a proposed wage freeze for public sector workers, there could be huge consequences.The head of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) warns that strikes are likely if Premier Dalton McGuinty sticks to his plan, which would maintain wages at their current rate for two years.But CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn [...]

A year ago Tuesday, the street in front of Montreal city hall was crowded with 2,000 blue-collar workers staging a one-day strike to observe the second anniversary of being without a contract.Tuesday, Year 3 rolled by, and the closest thing to a demonstration at city hall was a reception for the organizers of this year’s [...]