Elementary school teachers and educational assistants in Peel say violent attacks by students have left them injured and fearful to go into classrooms. Just last week, Metroland Media Group [...]
Contract negotiations between the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) abruptly broke down today following the hospitals’ refusal to address the [...]
The misfeasance suit against the Premier and Ministers of Energy and Finance over the sale of Hydro One shares is headed back to court with a hearing expected in the spring, after CUPE filed an [...]
The Canadian government is getting kudos from unions for proposing that both Mexico and the United States commit to improved labour standards in a rewritten North American free trade agreement. [...]
Since Bill 148, the Fair Wages, Better Workplaces Act, was first announced in May, there has been an intense ideological battle underway as the Big Business lobby attempts to re-assert the [...]
The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) – an umbrella organization of injured worker groups throughout Ontario – is launching a province-wide campaign called Workers’ Comp is a [...]
Canada’s unions are welcoming the federal government’s plan to close tax loopholes for very high-income earners, saying it’s an important first step toward bringing more fairness to Canada’s tax [...]
The drive by the National Post’s Ontario newsroom to unionize raises the question: Don’t they believe their own newspaper? Founder Conrad Black called public sector unions a “blight on our [...]
Many in the business community have condemned Ontario’s vast suite of proposed labour reforms – which include raising the minimum wage to $15 – but not all employers agree the outcome is [...]
Some in the business community have been quite vocal in their opposition to our proposed changes. They’ve said it is too much, too fast. But for those who keep falling behind, these changes can’t [...]
