The NDP in opposition is as tepid as it was in government, facing the Manitoba government of Pallister.
For the third time in just one year, investigators have caught strikebreakers brought in by a company involved in a labour dispute.
The scene of the battle in Nova Scotia has changed from the coal mines to the classroom, but the dirty tricks played by the business class have not.
The BCTF has won an agreement that fully restores substantive collective agreement language that was unconstitutionally stripped in 2002 by then-Education Minister Christy Clark.
Even if women worked the same exact same jobs as men, 77% of the gender pay gap would persist, according to a Statistics Canada report.
Canada's unions are urging the Canadian government to denounce the US Executive Order barring Syrian refugees and discriminating against other travellers of Muslim faith or background.
Something amazing has been happening in CUPE in Ontario: a strong fight against austerity and the emergence of a militant leadership led by women.
A holiday drama with Wynne’s Liberals as austerity-minded Scrooge and a Northern Ontario Children’s Aid Society as the heartless Grinch
We urge readers to stand with ILWU, the ILA and the SIU in the struggle to save jobs and protect Canada’s coasts and waters.
Five hundred maritime workers and their allies rallied in Vancouver on Nov. 2, against the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and proposed changes to the Canada Transportation Act.
Report on the 30th Biennial Convention of the Hospital Employees' Union.
The Ontario Liberals have appointed prominent Conservative strategist Hugh Segal to develop a Basic Income pilot project. This plan will be framed in the interests of capital, to eliminate and replace other social assistance programs and lock [...]
A new report from Oxfam Canada says that addressing the unequal economics of women’s work is essential to closing the gap in earnings and opportunities between women and men, and between rich and poor.
Rather than relying on the good graces of the Trudeau or Wynne Liberals, the trade union movement can and must become the catalyst to bring together all sections of the working class into a powerful, fighting united front.
Pay equity advocates in New Zealand are calling for urgent action after the country’s gender pay gap slipped back to 12 per cent for the first time since 2008.
Now is the time to save Canada Post from its blinkered leadership and pressure the feckless Liberals.
A Toronto-based crown corporation is currently applying its federal jurisdiction to impose the use of scab workers, forbidden under Québec jurisdiction. Respect the picket line of striking Vieux-Port workers!
The working class needs stronger, more dynamic, more mass based, more class-oriented, trade union movement. The 17th Annual WFTU Congress will fight for that.
While the Unifor flirtation with the Liberals did not start with the lead-up to the 2015 federal election, it seems the stars have aligned for the union and the pro-business Prime Minister.
The all-India one day general strike on September 2 was bigger and more widespread than on the same date in 2015.
The USW's demand for a full public inquiry into US Steel should receive wide support.
“We need to bring this Crown Corporation in line with the government. The government is taking about improving pensions, while Canada Post is going in the other direction."
June was a hotter month than expected for the French ruling class, as workers and supporters took to the streets to protest the Socialist government's new labour law.
Action resolution adopted by the 38th Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada
Recently the leader of the Communist Party of Canada, Liz Rowley, spoke at a public forum in Vancouver on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). She summarized it very succinctly: "there is nothing acceptable about the TPP." The TPP is a proposed [...]
More than 90 countries across the globe saw mass rallies and other activities on Sunday, May 1, International Workers' Day
“This is not about a few bad apples. There is a widespread devaluing of women workers across the sector.”
Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, a phenomenon formerly associated with “salary men,” but today increasingly afflicting young and female employees.
Women are unpaid, undervalued and unequal, says a new report.
