A Superior Court Justice has made an interim decision regarding protocol on the picket line between striking local 6500 Steelworkers and Vale Inco. “He’s just saying the terms of the existing injunction apply,” said Steve Ball, spokesperson for Vale Inco’s operations in Sudbury. While The Sudbury Star has not obtained a copy of the ruling delivered Saturday [...]

The province refused to wade into the driving examiners’ strike Monday as about 200 angry driving instructors – the latest group to call for an end to the 100-day strike – demanded politicians order DriveTest employees back to work. “We are all suffering these last few months, and it’s not our fault,” said Baldev Gill, a [...]

The president of United Steelworkers Local 9511 is at a loss to explain why DriveTest opened its Chatham office Monday. “I wish I knew the answer to that question,” said Jim Wilson. “If you find out let me know.” Wilson said there are DriveTest locations across the province that serve a much larger population base than the [...]

OTTAWA — The Harper government is prepared to introduce back-to-work legislation Monday to end the CN Rail strike, if the two sides don’t reach an agreement. Sources say the government would like to pass the bill through the House and Senate as soon as possible, providing the Liberals support the move. Labour Minister Rona Ambrose will hold a news conference [...]

A strike by Canadian National Railway Co. locomotive engineers threatens a nascent recovery in freight shipments. Canada’s largest railway, which is seen as a barometer for the economy because the carrier hauls a wide range of goods, finally began to see signs of a turnaround in November. But a strike that began Saturday by 1,700 engineers comes [...]

TORONTO — A potential labour disruption could be looming at Canadian National Railway Co. after the country’s largest railway decided to unilaterally impose contract changes on 1,700 of its engineers following 14 months of failed contract negotiations with their union. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents the engineers, said it is consulting with its [...]

The President of CUPE 3550 (Edmonton Public Schools support staff) is applauding a decision by the Alberta Labour Relations Board declaring Alberta’s Labour Code unconstitutional. In its decision last week, the board found that the Code’s failure to institute what is commonly known as the ‘Rand Formula’ infringed on the union’s ability to engage in collective [...]

Health-care workers who are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIUWEST) will be taking a strike vote on the same day their bargaining committee heads back into contract talks. SEIUWEST, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) negotiate wages and other monetary items at a common [...]

Renfrew driving school lays off driver as backlog grows Fourteen weeks and counting. That’s how long 600 DriveTest workers, including Corin Visinski and Doris Price of the Renfrew office, have been on strike. That’s how long Ontarians have been unable to take their driver’s tests, and there’s no end in sight. After workers, members of the United Steelworkers [...]

Roughly a dozen placard-carrying pickets blocked the path of transport trucks at a west-end Kingston property yesterday in a strike by workers who administer driving tests. More than 500 people who work at DriveTest centres across Ontario, including Kingston, have been on the picket line since August in a dispute with the company contracted by the [...]