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Descrease article font size Increase article font size After over a month on the picket lines, employees at the Cargill plant in Guelph, Ont., returned to work on Monday. A total of 960 unionized workers, represented by United Food & Commercial Workers Local 175, ratified a new collective agreement on …
Read More »New agreement between Manitoba, First Nations to change scope of forestry – Winnipeg
On Friday, a new memorandum of understanding was signed that will change how forestry works in the Swan River Valley. “For more than a decade, we have been raising concerns about Manitoba’s failure to consider protection of our treaty rights and fair resource sharing when making decisions about Lousiana-Pacific’s (LP) …
Read More »Judge approves settlement agreement for Nova Scotia’s Northern Pulp mill – Halifax
A settlement agreement announced last week between the owners of the Northern Pulp mill and the Nova Scotia government has been approved by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. The agreement is the result of a court-ordered mediation that began in April 2022 as part of the company’s creditor protection …
Read More »Alberta, Saskatchewan sign agreement to share nuclear energy information
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 2, 2024 12:57 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatchewan and Alberta have agreed to share information about nuclear power generation. The governments of the two provinces have signed a memorandum of understanding to keep each other …
Read More »Airline catering company at Toronto Pearson reaches tentative agreement: union
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union representing workers responsible for food and beverages on flights out of Toronto Pearson Airport says it has reached a tentative agreement with its company Gate Gourmet. In a statement on Sunday, Teamsters Local Union 647 said a tentative agreement was …
Read More »TTC avoids strike after reaching tentative agreement with trades, electrical workers – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A strike has been averted after the TTC and the union representing more than 650 trades and electrical workers reached a tentative agreement. CUPE Local 2 said a tentative agreement was reached early Monday after an “intense” weekend of negotiations. “This tentative …
Read More »York University strike ends as union votes in favour of tentative agreement – Toronto
The union representing about 3,000 striking academic workers at York University voted in favour of accepting the tentative agreement with the post-secondary institution on Friday, bringing an end to a seven-week strike. On Friday afternoon, almost 1,600 members of CUPE 3903 participated in the ratification vote of a tentative Comprehensive Framework …
Read More »Ontario hospital workers awarded 6% pay increase, new agreement on agency nurses
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some 65,000 unionized hospital workers in Ontario have been awarded a pay increase of six per cent over two years in an arbitration decision. Workers represented by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions — CUPE (OCHU-CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare — will have …
Read More »Tentative agreement reached between civil service workers, province – Winnipeg
By Kevin Hirschfield Global News Posted January 12, 2024 8:48 pm Updated January 12, 2024 10:11 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Around 11,500 civil service workers in Manitoba could soon have a new contract. The MGEU, which represents the workers, says it has reached a tentative …
Read More »Stellantis autoworkers vote to ratify new collective agreement, Unifor says
Unifor says Stellantis production workers voted 60 per cent in favour of a new three-year contract with the automaker. The deal covers workers at the company’s Windsor and Brampton, Ont., assembly plants and Etobicoke Casting Plant. Approval for smaller agreements covering Stellantis workers in other units ranged from 85 to …
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