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Ontario’s Controversial Bill 5 and Labour Rights: A Dangerous Precedent 2025-06-21 [The Law of Work]

Petition to Algoma University: Re-instate admission to Geography, History, Music, Sociology, and Visual Art 2025-06-21 [OPSEU]

University and College workers raise the alarm on proposed changes in Bill 33 2025-06-21 [OSSTF]

More funding for teacher training at universities is welcome, but won’t solve the real crisis in Ontario’s classrooms 2025-06-21 [OSSTF]

Nurses, Health-Care Professionals at Matthews House Hospice Vote to Join ONA 2025-06-21 [ONA]

Joint Statement by the Ontario Federation of Labour, Nishnawbe Aski Nation on the Protecting Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 2025-06-21 [OFL]

Andrew Maeumbaed Retires After 37 Years of Dedicated Service with IAM Union and Superior Chrysler 2025-06-21 [IAM]

Toronto assisted living facility brings in scabs to replace striking staff 2025-06-21 [rabble]

'WSIB went backwards' says union as strike enters second month 2025-06-21 [The Safety Mag]

As Federal anti-scab legislation comes into force Ontario workers are left out to dry 2025-06-21 [CUPE]

OCEU/CUPE 1750 demands urgent meeting with Ministers Piccini and Mulroney as WSIB strike enters second month 2025-06-21 [CUPE]

Union rejects CNL offer, strike to resume Monday 2025-06-20 [The Times]

Canadian Hearing Services workers strike hits eight-week mark with no end in sight 2025-06-20 [The X]

'We all need to come together': Local workers rally as strikes drag on 2025-06-20 [Soo Today]

Sudbury Steelworkers call for fair deal for WSIB employees 2025-06-20 [USW]

Five years into Ford government’s privatization of hospital services: longer wait-times, unequal access, and public opposition 2025-06-20 [CUPE]

WSIB strike set to surpass one-month mark as employer stalls resolution 2025-06-20 [CUPE]

Nuclear scientists and engineers vote to continue historic strike action: Chalk River Nuclear Scientists and Engineers (CRPEG) members reject CNL settlement offer 2025-06-19 [PIPSC]

Best Western Plus workers reject so-called ‘final offer’ 2025-06-17 [Unifor]

Temporary Full Time Executive Administrative Assistant 2025-06-18 [CUPE Ontario]

OCEU/CUPE 1750 awaiting employer response as talks continue 2025-06-16 [CUPE]

Striking hotel workers to vote on company's 'final offer' 2025-06-16 [CKLW]

'It takes two to get a deal', says head of union representing strike WSIB workers 2025-06-14 [CKLW]

Talks stalled as acrimonious Hamilton water plant strike drags into fifth week 2025-06-14 [The Spectator]

Striking workers at North York LTC home say replacement workers not providing quality service to seniors 2025-06-14 [CBC]

Unions to Picket Ford Fest in Solidarity with WSIB Strike 2025-06-14 [CUPE]

‘A rug that’s being pulled out from under you’: Worker speaks out after layoffs at ArcelorMittal 2025-06-14 [CHCH]

School board, union clash over staff-driven information campaign 2025-06-14 [The Recorder & Times]

Striking WSIB workers rally in front of Windsor MPP Dowie's office 2025-06-14 [The Star]

WSIB CEO misled minister and public, leaked internal memo shows 2025-06-14 [CUPE]

Striking personal care workers at Villa Colombo strengthened by growing political, union and community support 2025-06-13 [CUPE]

Workers at Wakenagun Youth Healing Lodge vote to join the United Steelworkers 2025-06-13 [USW]

WSIB strike hits three weeks as Management and the Ford Government fail to act on mounting crisis 2025-06-13 [CUPE]

Kingston causeway workers get severance pay nearly a year after bridge torn down 2025-06-12 [CBC]

Ottawa’s inaction is costing Hamilton workers their jobs 2025-06-12 [USW]

Workers at Toronto Community Housing ratify New Collective Agreement 2025-06-12 [CUPE]

Bill 5: Weakens Northern Ontario Workers, Communities, and Economies 2025-06-12 [Anishinabek News]

A 'horrible day' for workers: ArcelorMittal to close Hamilton wire-drawing mill, affecting 153 jobs 2025-06-12 [CBC]

New Durham Region Transit agreement contains improved wages, benefits and scheduling language 2025-06-11 [Unifor]

WSIB workers in London continue picketing as strike nears 3-week mark with no resolve 2025-06-11 [CBC]

Most people in Cornwall face reduced access to privatized hospital services 2025-06-11 [CUPE]

UCDSB education workers will not back down!: CUPE education workers push back after UCDSB management tries to silence petition 2025-06-11 [CUPE]

Deaf and hard of hearing organizations call for Canadian Hearing Services to get back to the table and end the 7-week strike 2025-06-11 [CUPE]

Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, CUPE 416 responds to City of Toronto’s new Paramedic staffing plan 2025-06-11 [CUPE]

WSIB quietly confirms backlog and costly shortcuts as strike nears third week, union says 2025-06-11 [CUPE]

Union blasts WSIB’s decision to use automation to approve more injury claims during strike 2025-06-10 [Toronto Star]

Ontario legislation undermines public education, equity 2025-06-10 [NUPGE]

Superior North EMS paramedics deliver 97% strike mandate 2025-06-10 [Unifor]

Striking Best Western Plus workers to vote on company's 'final offer' 2025-06-10 [CKLW]

Hundreds of striking WSIB workers rally in downtown Toronto after talks break down 2025-06-10 [CBC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-06-1987 In British Columbia, 250,000 workers walk off the job in a one-day general strike against restrictive labour laws introduced by the Social Credit government. The legislation is repealed when the New Democratic Party returns to power in 1992. [more]

1-06-1986 In Edmonton, Alberta meatpacking workers go on strike against wage and pension rollbacks. One of their slogans is "Gainers makes wieners with scabs". There are more than 400 arrests before an agreement is reached in December. [more]

3-06-1935 Hundreds of unemployed men board boxcars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning the historic On-to-Ottawa Trek to protest conditions in the relief camps run by the Department of National Defence. [more]

8-06-2007 The Supreme Court of Canada rules, in a 6 to 1 decision, that collective bargaining rights are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The decision describes collective bargaining rights as "a fundamental aspect of Canadian society." [more]

11-06-1925 Today is Davis Day in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, a memorial day for coal miner William Davis, who was shot and killed by company police in the struggle for control of the Waterford Lake power plant during the historic 1925 strike. [more]

12-06-1934 Immigrant workers go on strike at the Noranda copper and gold mining operations in Québec, led by the Workers' Unity League. Strikebreakers are brought in, and there is no union contract until 1945. [more]

14-06-1912 Union leaders meet at the Lethbridge Labour Temple to establish the Alberta Federation of Labour. This is the beginning of the Federation’s long struggle for workers’ rights in Alberta. [more]

14-06-1872 Royal assent is given the Trade Union Act, legislation promised by the prime minister in April in response to large public protests against the arrest of striking Toronto printers on conspiracy charges. The Act states that unions are legal in Canada. [more]

17-06-1958 In Vancouver, British Columbia the Second Narrows Bridge collapses while under construction, and nineteen lives are lost. It is the city's worst industrial disaster. The bridge is now known as the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing. [more]

18-06-1935 Longshoremen in Vancouver, many of them war veterans, march to protest the use of scabs to unload cargo on the docks. In a three-hour battle, police chase the strikers down on horseback and use tear gas to disperse the protest. [more]

19-06-1914 A coal mine explosion in the Crowsnest Pass at Hillcrest, Alberta takes the lives of 189 men, mostly immigrants. Canada's worst coal mine disaster leaves 90 widows and more than 250 orphans. [more]

19-06-1938 On Bloody Sunday in Vancouver, British Columbia, hundreds of unemployed workers are violently evicted from government buildings, including the post office and art gallery, after weeks of sit-ins to protest cutbacks in relief projects. [more]

20-06-1959 A sudden violent storm on Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick sweeps away 35 men and boys. The Escuminac Disaster is commemorated at the local wharf by The Fishermen, a monument created by Acadian artist Claude Roussel [more]

20-06-1984 An earthquake kills four workers at the Falconbridge mine near Sudbury, Ontario. The day is remembered in an annual union memorial service and with calls for renewed attention to health, safety and emergency preparedness. [more]

21-06-1919 A silent parade to protest the arrest of leaders of the Winnipeg General Strike is attacked by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the city’s special police. Many are wounded on Bloody Saturday, and two men lose their lives. The strike soon ends. [more]

25-06-1999 The Fédération des Infirmières du Québec begins an illegal one-day provincial strike, one of several this summer and one of many across the country during the year over nurses’ workload and wages. [more]

27-06-1991 The Supreme Court of Canada issues its decision in Lavigne v Ontario Public Service Employees Union, affirming the constitutional right of unions to spend money on social and political action to advance the interests of workers. [more]

29-06-1981 The Canadian Union of Postal Workers begins a 42-day strike that succeeds in winning a contract with 17 weeks of maternity leave benefits. This breakthrough agreement sets a standard for other unions. [more]