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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 news that the Ontario government will move to create a dedicated occupational disease response team, slated to be operational later in 2017. Read more.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Instructors, lab demonstrators and teaching assistants (TAs) at Brock University are taking exception to the university’s recognition as a top employer in the region. Brock University was [...]

On October 19, 2016, Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau introduced Bill C-27, an Act to Amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985. This legislation is aimed at dismantling the defined [...]