‘You are part of history right now,’ Toronto women’s march told
A spirited crowd of thousands marched from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday in support of women’s and human rights, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as [...]
The robots are coming… for our jobs
Since the 19th century, machines have replaced workers. And they have allowed factory owners to deconstruct the skills of artisans into narrow but consecutive tasks that unskilled labour could [...]
Unifor welcomes Ontario occupational disease response team
Unifor welcomes news that the Ontario government will move to create a dedicated occupational disease response team, slated to be operational later in 2017. Read more.
Locked-out children’s aid workers charge Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS with trying to keep public in the dark
Workers locked out of their jobs at Nipissing and Parry Sound children’s aid society (CAS) expressed their shock and dismay at the cancellation of Tuesday’s meeting of the agency’s board of [...]
Essex County Library Board cancels public meeting and cuts off workers’ benefits as strike enters eighth-month mark
As the Essex County Library strike hits the eighth-month mark this week, the Library Board has no real plan to end the strike but to continue to thwart democracy and starve striking workers into [...]
Ontario eyes stronger protections for workers who get sick on the job
Ontario aims to have a dedicated occupational disease response team in place by the end of the year to improve prevention and enforcement, as well as help workers who get sick from chemical [...]
CUPE makes first move to unionize members of RCMP
The RCMP’s 911 dispatchers could be the first sworn members of the national police force to be unionized. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has applied to the Public Service [...]
CUPE women step up the fight on the picket lines
Since April of last year, something amazing has been happening in CUPE in Ontario. CUPE locals in social services, overwhelmingly female workers, have been taking a stand against bad bosses and [...]
Construction manager gets prison in scaffold deaths
In a historic case, a construction company boss has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail for an incident in which four workers died and another was critically injured after falling 13 [...]
