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'Incredibly shocking': health premiums for Yukon gov't workers to increase 52.8 per cent 2024-03-26 [CBC]

Hospital Corporation and workers’ unions tentatively agree, unions say 2024-03-02 [The News]

Hospital Corporation employees vote in favor of strike mandate 2024-03-01 [CKRW]

Hospital workers give union strike mandate as contract talks resume 2024-03-01 [CBC]

Migrant workers in the Yukon are organizing. The labour movement needs to support them 2023-11-06 [Briarpatch]

YEU elects new leadership 2023-10-31 [CBC]

Workers at White Pass Yukon Route could strike in mid-August 2023-07-15 [The News]

Workers at White Pass & Yukon Route vote to authorize possible strike 2023-07-08 [CBC]

overnment says it's implemented plan for safer schools 2023-06-24 [CBC]

Government workers ratify new tentative agreement 2023-06-07 [CBC]

On verge of strike vote, Yukon government reaches tentative agreement with employees' union 2023-05-27 [CBC]

Federal workers expand Whitehorse picket line, but say they aren't blocking gov't buildings 2023-04-28 [CBC]

Federal workers strike with nationwide union 2023-04-22 [Yukon News]

Yukon Party seeks assurances as strike begins 2023-04-20 [The Daily Star]

Yukon union calls out gov't for fumbling bonus payments to nurses 2023-02-17 [CBC]

Whitehorse shelter workers among newly unionized Connective staff in the Yukon 2023-01-29 [Yukon News]

Union says City of Yellowknife acting 'in bad faith' after city manager's email to unionized city staff 2022-12-21 [CBC]

Territorial government offers cash bonuses to attract and keep nurses 2022-12-05 [CBC]

Arts Centre and Staff Reach Tentative Agreement 2022-10-18 [CKRW]

Arts Centre workers go on strike, picket outside concert 2022-10-13 [CBC]

City ratifies negotiated agreements 2022-08-03 [The Daily Star]

‘It's very scary at WGH right now,' employee says 2020-10-20 [The Star]

YEU expects ‘contentious' round of bargaining 2022-01-11 [The Daily Star]

Decision will improve workers' safety: YEU 2019-01-01 [The Daily Star]

Many Rivers' AGM deemed invalid by YG: union 2018-11-21 [The Daily Star]

New deal in place for Yukon's educators 2022-02-06 [Yukon News]

PSAC president speaks out about Queen's Printer, Central Stores situation 2019-11-16 [The News]

City ratifies pacts with employees 2022-07-07 [The Whitehorse Daily Star]

YG, union reach a stalemate 2022-06-02 [The Star]

Yukon employees must prove COVID-19 vaccination by midnight or be put on leave without pay 2021-12-01 [CBC]

Union calls for accommodations for vaccine-exempted workers 2021-10-28 [HRD]

Union files grievance over Yukon govt's mandatory vaccine policy 2021-10-27 [CBC]

Unions, groups assess mandatory vaccines 2021-10-19 [The Daily Star]

Conditions at Whitehorse hospital's secure unit broke health and safety rules, records show 2021-03-12 [CBC]

Continuing care workers forced to take sick days for vaccine side effects, union says 2021-02-09 [CBC]

Hospital, union reach tentative deal 2020-12-19 [The News]

Hospital workers' unions reach tentative deal with hospital corporation 2020-12-18 [CBC]

YEU, Yukon Hospital Corp. at odds over whether hospitals are understaffed 2020-10-22 [The News]

Gov't employees taking fewer sick days during COVID-19 pandemic 2020-09-04 [CBC]

Union vows to fight gov't decision to close Queen's Printer, Central Stores 2019-11-16 [CBC]

Government criticized for decision to outsource printing to the private sector 2019-10-23 [CBC]

Privatization unleashes angry backlash 2019-10-22 [The Star]

Liberals grilled over nursing staff levels 2019-10-17 [The News]

Union and YG ratify new collective agreement 2019-07-25 [The News]

Government and workers union ratify collective agreement 2019-07-23 [CBC]

YEU contract ratification meetings set 2019-07-13 [The Star]

YEU/PSAC agree to tentative deal 2019-06-11 [The Daily Star]

Many Rivers counselling staff get lay off notices, as Yukon gov't withholds funding 2019-02-21 [CBC]

Union angry as Many Rivers 'pursuing every option' to keep doors open 2019-02-21 [CBC]

Strike 'narrowly averted' for Yukon hospital workers after tentative deal reached 2019-02-17 [CBC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

2-03-1986 Workers in Newfoundland and Labrador's Transport and Public Works departments begin an illegal strike in response to a law that requires public sector unions to designate 49 per cent of their members as essential before taking strike action. [more]

3-03-1937 Polish and Italian migrant workers start a sit-down strike at the Holmes Foundry in Sarnia, Ontario. A mob of 300 "Canadian-born" men evict them and also attack their homes. Fifty workers are injured. [more]

4-03-1919 Canadian soldiers waiting for demobilization at an army camp in Wales riot against delays in returning them home. Five men are killed and dozens arrested before the mutiny is suppressed, but plans for demobilization are speeded up. [more]

4-03-1910 An avalanche in the Rogers Pass, British Columbia, takes the lives of workers clearing snow from Canadian Pacific Railway tracks. A total of 62 bodies are recovered, including four the following spring. The dead include 32 contract labourers from Japan. [more]

6-03-1925 Nova Scotia coal miners shut down the mines after the British Empire Steel Corporation refuses to continue contract negotiations and cuts off credit at company stores. It is the beginning of an historic five-month strike. [more]

7-03-1978 Women workers begin a 23-week strike for a first contract at a small auto parts plant in Centralia, Ontario. The Fleck workers' militancy wins wide support and shows the need for reforms in labour law. [more]

8-03-1980 In Hamilton, Ontario, an International Women's Day rally features the Women Back Into Stelco campaign. A human rights complaint by five women forces a major steel company to change their hiring practices. [more]

9-03-1906 Mineworkers in the Lethbridge, Alberta district go on strike against poverty wages and are met by scabs, police and private detectives. They win a small wage increase with the help of a mediator, but the company refuses to recognize the union. [more]

10-03-1925 The Hamilton Tigers, who finished first in the regular hockey season, strike for an increase of $200 per game. Five days later, the team is suspended from further play for the Stanley Cup. [more]

10-03-1957 Copper miners at Murdochville, Quebec launch a strike for union recognition. The unsuccessful struggle lasts seven months and the courts award Noranda Mines $1.5 million in damages, to be paid by the United Steelworkers. [more]

12-03-2012 Union organizer and feminist Madeleine Parent, born in Montreal in 1918, dies at age 93 after a lifetime of service to the organization of workers and the cause of social justice. [more]

13-03-1919 In Calgary, Alberta, the Western Canadian Labour Conference calls for sweeping political and economic changes, including abolition of production for profit and the organization of workers on industrial lines. They adopt the name One Big Union. [more]

17-03-1960 Five Italian immigrant workers die in an underground tunnel at a watermain construction project in suburban Toronto. The Hogg's Hollow Disaster draws public attention to the unsafe conditions in construction and the exploitation of immigrant workers. [more]

25-03-2006 An accounting instructor dies from injuries received on the picket line at Centennial College in Toronto during a province-wide strike. John Stammers, 62, was a member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. [more]

27-03-1912 Thousands of workers start to walk out of railway construction camps on the Fraser River in British Columbia in a strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World. When Joe Hill visits, he writes a song for the Wobbly song book. [more]

31-03-2004 Bill C-45 comes into force, amending the Criminal Code to impose penalties on corporations and managers for violations causing workplace injuries or death. It is named the Westray Bill after the 1992 mine disaster. [more]

31-03-1949 The Canadian Seamen's Union launches a strike to defend union contracts. Shipping companies and Canadian authorities collaborate with the Seafarers' International Union to drive out the CSU. [more]