LabourStart -

Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025

Top stories


TUC health and safety representatives survey 2024 - 2025 [TUC] 06-01-2026


South London borough's traffic wardens are on strike again [My London] 06-01-2026


Bin strike reaches one year mark with no end in sight [BBC] 06-01-2026


Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025 [The Maple] 06-01-2026


Hotel workers threaten strike over unpaid minimum wage [UNB News] 05-01-2026



Other news


Ontario Local workers with Ontario Health atHome rally against return-to-office mandate 2026-01-06 [CBC]

Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025 2026-01-06 [The Maple]

Ontario Unions, public service employees speak out against Ontario return to office policy 2026-01-06 [CBC]

Bargaining successes 2026-01-06 [USW]

Unionized workers achieved largest wage gains for a decade in 2025 2026-01-06 [The Globe and Mail]

Ontario Public service workers are back in office full-time, but urge return to hybrid model 2026-01-06 [RCI]

Ontario Hybrid works! CUPE members at Ontario Health atHome stage a province wide day of action 2026-01-06 [CUPE]

UNISON condemns the US military attack on Venezuela 2026-01-06 [Unison]

RMT warns P&O Ferries investigation delay undermining confidence in company law 2026-01-06 [RMT]

Bin strike reaches one year mark with no end in sight 2026-01-06 [BBC]

South London borough's traffic wardens are on strike again 2026-01-06 [My London]

TUC General Council statement on Venezuela 2026-01-06 [TUC]

TUC health and safety representatives survey 2024 - 2025 2026-01-06 [TUC]

Tech workers organise, unionise, and strike 2026-01-06 [People Before Profit]

Labour and the NDP: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future 2026-01-05 [Perspectives]

VIDEO Ontario Ontario public workers return to the office full-time Monday 2026-01-05 [CP24]

California These California cities just raised minimum wages. Where can workers earn more? 2026-01-05 [Sacramento Bee]

Ill-fitting PPE leaves women unsafe and embarrassed, union warns 2026-01-05 [Health and Safety International]

Tens of thousands of women unsafe in men's safety equipment 2026-01-05 [GMB]

Queensland AWU statement regarding fatal mine incidents in Queensland 2026-01-05 [AWU]

Further city bus strikes a last resort, says union 2026-01-05 [BBC]

Don’t bring violence to council secretariats – Union tasks returning workers 2026-01-05 [Vanguard]

Quebec Le Massif de Charlevoix shuts down because of strike, leaving skiers frustrated 2026-01-05 [The Gazette]

Capstone union strikes at Mantoverde operations 2026-01-05 [Mining.com]

Manitoba Limited funding, training make job difficult for child welfare emergency placement staff, union says 2026-01-05 [CBC]

Glen Dimplex staff in Portadown are taking two days of strike action beginning today Monday 5th January 2026-01-05 [Unite]

Rio Cinema introduces worker’s programme in partnerships with unions 2026-01-05 [Morning Star]

TUC - Record levels of work-related stress in Britain’s workplaces 2026-01-05 [TUC]

GMB union in fresh turmoil over claims by senior female leaders 2026-01-05 [The Guardian]

Eastern Cape SAFTU on the municipal crisis, austerity and service delivery apartheid in Nelson Mandela Bay 2026-01-05 [SAFTU]

New York New York Nurses’ Union Threatens Strike over Safety, Wages 2026-01-05 [WorkersCompensation.com]

CITU calls upon workers to make February 12 general strike a big success 2026-01-05 [The Hindu]

11 months after strike: Union warns workers against violence 2026-01-05 [Vanguard]

Bank Employees Can Go On Strike On January 27 Across India 2026-01-05 [trak.in]

India’s bank employees threaten countrywide strike on January 27 2026-01-05 [peoplematters]

Health Workers’ Union in Kaduna denies reports of planned strike 2026-01-05 [Nairametrics]

Hotel workers threaten strike over unpaid minimum wage 2026-01-05 [UNB News]

Practical guide explains key terms on labour rights, supply chains and trade 2026-01-05 [ILO]

ITF condemns US intervention in Vebezuels 2026-01-04 [ITF]

Korea Development Bank and IBK face union strikes over pay and appointments 2026-01-04 [The Chosun Ilbo]

‘Today’s gig worker is exploited like yesterday’s mazdoor’ 2026-01-04 [Mid-day]

England Further bus strikes set for January 2026-01-04 [BBC]

Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’ 2026-01-04 [The Guardian]

Retrenchment by Design: How “restructuring” can be used to weaken unions in Zimbabwe 2026-01-04 [NewsChat]

Understanding the pay disparities in SA professional sport 2026-01-04 [IOL]

KwaZulu-Natal SAMWU seeks salary assurances at Impendle Municipality 2026-01-04 [East Coast Radio]

20%–23% salary increase in new collective agreement for Tel Aviv light rail workers 2026-01-04 [Histadrut]

In loving memory of Thato Moncho – a mother, a fighter, a voice for thousands 2026-01-03 [SAFTU]

Strike fears averted at Manchester Airport as pay deal agreed 2026-01-03 [Manchester Eve News]

[More News]

This month in labour history