Labour rights

2 Minutes

Canada Labour

Developmental service workers fighting forced overtime

PV December 19, 2023

PV staff Faced with years of understaffing, developmental service workers at Community Living Algoma in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario have been stretching themselves thin to make sure that adults with disabilities receive the care...

2 Minutes

Canada Labour World

Union calls for worker and union participation in agricultural worker program

PV November 22, 2023

The United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW Canada) has issued a joint call with Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house in the Mexican parliament, for reforms to the Canada-Mexico Seasonal Agricultural Worker...

10 Minutes

Canada Labour

Ontario’s apprenticeship plan designed to degrade trades and public education

PV June 27, 2023

By Jeff Tomlinson In March, Ontario’s Doug Ford government announced that high school students will soon be able to transition into full-time apprenticeship training in grade 11. Upon receiving trade certification, they can then...

4 Minutes

Canada Labour

BC Labour Board ruling puts picket lines in the crosshairs

PV January 30, 2023

Federally regulated workers no longer considered “persons” BC Labour Opinion Trouble is brewing for workers on the west coast, where a successful strike action is retroactively being declared illegal by the BC Labour Relations...