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CIRB rules against Canada Post union's challenge to back-to-work order
The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ruled against the union at Canada Post in its challenge to Ottawa's move last year to force the postal employees back to work. The federal government brought ...
Oct 23, 2025 A striking Canada Post worker stands at a picket line outside a delivery depot, in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
CIRB rules against Canada Post union's challenge to back-to-work order
OTTAWA - The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ruled against the union at Canada Post in its challenge to Ottawa's move last year to force the postal employees back to work. The federal government...
Oct 23, 2025
Alberta premier says back-to-work bill for striking teachers coming Monday
EDMONTON - Thousands of teachers and supporters jeered, chanted and dumped protest potatoes at the door of the Alberta legislature Thursday as Premier Danielle Smith set a Monday deadline to solve a p...
Oct 23, 2025
Long-term care workers across N.S. take strike votes, prepare for job action
HALIFAX - Nearly 5,000 long-term care workers in Nova Scotia are considering a strike, saying they are fed up of low pay and chronic understaffing. The union representing the workers say it has been t...
Oct 23, 2025
Wildfire workers join B.C. public service job action amid mediated talks
BURNABY - British Columbia's public service workers' union is expanding its job action even as it takes part in mediated talks with the government to end its dispute. The B.C. General Employees' Union...
Oct 22, 2025
Alberta NDP urges public to step up as striking teachers may face back-to-work bill
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition NDP says it will fight the government's looming plan to introduce a bill to force striking teachers back to work but admits it has limited options. NDP Leader Naheed Ne...
Oct 22, 2025
NDP leadership contenders pitch their vision to party membership at first forum
OTTAWA - The five official candidates for the federal NDP leadership met for the first time Wednesday night in Ottawa at a forum hosted by the Canadian Labour Congress. Each candidate was given 10 min...
Oct 22, 2025
Alberta teachers weigh legal options as back-to-work legislation looms in strike
EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers in a provincewide strike say they're talking to lawyers to determine next steps as legislation looms ordering them back to work. The Alberta Teachers...
Oct 21, 2025
Montreal transit maintenance workers announce third strike, spanning most of November
MONTREAL - Upset at lagging contract negotiations, the union representing maintenance workers with Montreal's public transit agency says its members will go on strike for the third time since June, la...
Oct 21, 2025
B.C. to add unpaid leave for 'catastrophic' illness, injury: Eby
The British Columbia government has proposed changes to the province's Employment Standards Act to allow up to 27 weeks of unpaid leave each year for people facing a "catastrophic" illness or injury. ...
Oct 20, 2025
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