10 NAFTA demands: What Canada wants as talks start this week
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland released Canada’s list of key demands Monday for a new North American Free Trade Agreement as talks get set to begin in Washington later this week. Freeland’s...
View ArticleBusiness groups raise concerns about Ontario’s planned labour reforms
A coalition of business groups says Ontario’s proposed changes to labour laws will put 185,000 jobs at risk in the first two years of being implemented. The Keep Ontario Working Coalition, which...
View ArticleOntario tweaks labour reform bill, but no changes to minimum wage hike
A major Ontario labour reform bill is being tweaked but so far is seeing no significant changes to key parts, including a controversial phase-in of a $15 minimum wage, leaving concerned businesses...
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Brinks employees overwhelmingly vote in favour of strike
Brink’s employees in British Columbia and Ontario have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike. At stake are staffing levels: employees of Brink’s Canada Limited, represented by Unifor, are asking...
View ArticleCanadian aspirations for labour mobility hit U.S. wall in NAFTA talks
Canada’s goal of increasing the flow of workers across the continent’s borders has slammed into U.S. intransigence during the first two rounds of North American Free Trade Agreement talks. And no...
View ArticleCanada pushes inclusion of strong, progressive labour standards in NAFTA
Canada is pushing for the inclusion of enforceable, progressive labour standards in a rewritten North American Free Trade Agreement, aimed at compelling Mexico to pay workers higher wages and do away...
View ArticleRising minimum wages could speed up automation not relocations: labour leaders
MONTREAL — Companies might not be able to dodge rising minimum wages by relocating even their most mobile workforces to lower wage provinces, but higher costs could accelerate the pace of automation....
View ArticleCanada sheds 88,000 net jobs; jobless rate at 5.9%
The number of jobs in Canada fell by 88,000 in January to give the labour market its steepest one-month drop in nine years, Statistics Canada said Friday. The overall number was dragged down by a loss...
View ArticleMan falls off ladder while working on roof of East York home
A man has been rushed to hospital after he fell off a ladder while working on the roof of a home in East York. Toronto police were called to Coxwell Boulevard and Barbara Crescent, near O’Connor Drive...
View ArticleFord government prepares to drop the axe on labour reforms
Premier Doug Ford says his government will be scrapping Bill 148, and that could impact Ontarians who are part-time workers. The bill, which was passed under the previous Liberal government, includes...
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Workers return to Toronto Zoo ahead of Thursday reopening
Staff will be returning to work at the Toronto Zoo Tuesday to get ready for its reopening on Thursday following a month-long strike over job security concerns. The zoo’s management board and more than...
View ArticleRise of the machines: Canadian retailers on ‘cusp’ of using more robotics
Back in 2009, Sobeys found itself at a crossroads. Labour costs were rising, employee productivity was waning and the grocer knew that it had to keep building bigger distribution centres to accommodate...
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Tentative deal averts threatened strike by LCBO workers
A tentative contract agreement has been reached, averting a strike by LCBO workers that was set to begin at midnight. The agreement was signed shortly after the strike deadline passed, and was...
View ArticleWestJet CEO ramps up anti-union campaign as more join push to organize workers
The head of WestJet has stepped up his fight against the growing push to unionize the airline’s staff, telling them to resist organized labour’s pitch because it will chomp into their paycheques. In an...
View ArticleFord announces minimum wage increase to $15 an hour
The Ontario government says the general minimum wage will increase from $14.35 to $15 per hour on January 1, 2022. If the legislation is passed, liquor servers will also see a hike in their minimum...
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