Tag Archives: Labour

EDMONTON - A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers - with each side accusing the other of lying - is set to turn into an all-out advertising war. Finance Minister Nate ...

EDMONTON - The union for educational assistants in Alberta, fresh off its own strike earlier this year, says members won't take on the work of teachers if they end up walking off the job next month. R...

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the Federal Reserve widely expected Wednesday to reduce its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 4.1%, economists and Wall Street investors will be looking for signals ...

OTTAWA - The federal union representing workers at the Canada Revenue Agency has started the second phase of its online campaign denouncing staffing cuts. The "Canada on Hold" campaign was launched la...

EDMONTON - As the clock ticks toward a potential provincewide strike by Alberta's teachers, parents say classroom overcrowding is having a disastrous domino effect on learning with tutors being hired ...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel, aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa, was spurred to take action in Grande Prairie Wednesday. The panel is pitching six ideas t...

The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company's property. Unifor Western...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's public service workers are escalating job action aimed at slowing work in the mining sector just as the province moves to fast-track several projects. The BC General Empl...

OTTAWA - NDP MP and labour critic Alexandre Boulerice said Tuesday his party plans to table a private member's bill this fall to scrap a section of the Canada Labour Code that lets the government shut...

HALIFAX - Since the school year began, Diana Caldern has spent most weekday afternoons driving her 14-year-old daughter to the Halifax junior high school she should be attending, timing their visits w...