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Canada Ontario Queen’s University Recognizes Caste-Based Discrimination in Historic Agreement with PSAC 901 [Mooknayak News] 20-04-2025

Canada Canadian Comedians Finally Write a Joke So Good It Comes With Benefits [Unifor] 18-04-2025

Canada Unifor cautions vigilance as Honda commits to full-production at Alliston plant [Unifor] 15-04-2025

Canada Canada’s unions sound alarm on public health care crisis [CLC] 14-04-2025

Canada American scholars moving to Canada, eh? [RadioLabour] 13-04-2025

USA / Canada Unifor, UAW now at odds over Trump's auto tariffs as industry tensions rise [Detroit Free Press] 13-04-2025

Canada CUPE joins call for a public consultation on the use of the notwithstanding clause [CUPE] 12-04-2025

Canada Patients over profits: Defending our public health care [CLC] 12-04-2025

Canada Hundreds of workers laid off at Ingersoll, Ont., assembly plant as GM halts production [CBC] 11-04-2025

Turkey / Canada TikTok Moderators Fight against Trauma and for a Union [Labornotes]  ActNOW!  10-04-2025


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British Columbia Day of Mourning commemorates lives lost to workplace injuries 2025-04-22 [Times-Colonist]

Day of Mourning – April 28 2025-04-22 [UFCW]

Hudson’s Bay Company illegally slashes workers’ commissions during liquidation 2025-04-22 [Unifor]

New Brunswick Day of Mourning Events 2025-04-22 [NBFL]

New Brunswick Day of Mourning Events 2025-04-22 [NBFL]

Raise Your Voice Cast Your Vote 2025-04-22 [CCU]

Tool Kit – 2025 Federal elections 2025-04-22 [FIQ]

Ontario Canadian Coast Guard is having ‘recruitment issues,’ union says. Is the Parry Sound base understaffed? 2025-04-22 [The North Star]

British Columbia ‘There is an offer’: Striking Cowichan Transit workers vote on possible deal 2025-04-22 [CHEK]

Ontario Anger over second $2B WSIB rebate 2025-04-22 [The Safety Mag]

Quebec Union complaints against Hydro-Quebec dismissed 2025-04-22 [CTV]

Quebec In Canada, the Strike Is Under New Management 2025-04-21 [Jacobin]

Nova Scotia Remembering Nova Scotia's mass shooting 2025-04-21 [NSFL]

Manitoba MGEU updates its look 2025-04-21 [MGEU]

Alberta Newest campaign from Alberta nurses: It Could Be Better Here 2025-04-21 [UNA]

Alberta Over 200 work-related deaths in Alberta in 2024 2025-04-21 [Alberta Worker]

Ontario Ontario Nurses’ Association launches a new digital publication: The ‘F-Word’ to feature stories about raw realities of Ontario’s health care 2025-04-21 [ONA]

Saskatchewan Day of Mourning ceremonies in Saskatchewan 2025-04-21 [SFL]

Nova Scotia Port of Halifax’s role in enabling the Palestinian genocide 2025-04-21 [rabble]

Quebec CWA Canada Wins Order against BGS-Microsoft 2025-04-21 [CWA Canada]

Ontario Toronto janitors ratify new agreement 2025-04-21 [SEIU 2]

British Columbia K-12 provincial bargaining kicks off 2025-04-21 [CUPE BC]

British Columbia Sensible approach to sick notes coming for all BC workers 2025-04-21 [UFCW 247]

British Columbia Day of Mourning ceremonies in B.C. 2025-04-21 [Day of Mourning BC]

Ontario Day of Mourning ceremonies in Ontario 2025-04-21 [OFL]

Ontario Queen’s University Recognizes Caste-Based Discrimination in Historic Agreement with PSAC 901 2025-04-20 [Mooknayak News]

British Columbia Former BC Nurses Union president Aman Grewal dies 2025-04-20 [CTV]

British Columbia LNG worker awarded $2,000 after company forced drug test 2025-04-18 [Infonews]

British Columbia Janitors Get Set for Citywide Bargaining 2025-04-18 [Tyee]

British Columbia Health care workers rally at BC Legislature for better working conditions, and an end to U.S. corporate control of vital lab services 2025-04-18 [NUPGE]

  JOB  British Columbia Strategic Communications Representative (x2) 2025-04-18 [UFCW 1518]

  JOB  British Columbia Events & Engagement Representative (Temporary) 2025-04-18 [UFCW 1518]

British Columbia B.C. union calls for federal action as health-care workers face deportation 2025-04-18 [The Progress]

Will Mark Carney continue the Liberals’ pro-privatization agenda? 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Ontario Bargaining showdown between Canadian Hearing Services, union 2025-04-18 [CTV]

Saskatchewan Earth Day 2025: Climate Emergency, Action for Ecosystem Restoration 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Saskatchewan Workers’ Day of Mourning: April 28, 2025 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Ontario Julia Dumanian once again raising alarms among workers as she forgoes bargaining and threatens a lockout at Canadian Hearing Services 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Nova Scotia CUPE Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions Members still waiting for Government to deliver Student Code of Conduct 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Nova Scotia Saint Mary’s University Cuts Jeopardize Dozens of Part-Time Jobs 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

New Brunswick Iris Lloyd elected President of CUPE New Brunswick 2025-04-18 [CUPE]

Canadian Comedians Finally Write a Joke So Good It Comes With Benefits 2025-04-18 [Unifor]

Canadian Comedians Finally Write a Joke So Good It Comes With Benefits 2025-04-18 [Unifor]

WestJet halts bid to hire temporary foreign workers as pilots 2025-04-17 [Canadian Press]

Resource highlights where major parties stand on the key priorities of UFCW Canada members 2025-04-17 [UFCW]

Atlantic Town Hall highlights Unifor’s fightback against U.S. 'economic warfare' 2025-04-17 [Unifor]

USA Fight against Trump’s tariffs the focus at Western Regional Town Hall 2025-04-17 [Unifor]

USA Unifor Aerospace Council statement on U.S. Tariffs 2025-04-17 [Unifor]

Prince Edward Island PEI announces $1 increase to minimum wage rate over next year 2025-04-17 [HRD]

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This month in labour history


1-04-1903 In Montréal, more than 2000 longshoremen go on strike at the beginning of the shipping season in the port. Militia are called out, and crowds rally to support the strikers. After five weeks, they win union recognition and more pay. [more]

6-04-1980 The Canadian Farmworkers Union holds its founding convention at Douglas College in Vancouver. Delegates elect Raj Chouhan as president of the CFU, Canada's first union of agricultural workers. [more]

8-04-1937 In Oshawa, Ontario, 4,000 workers go on strike at the General Motors plant for recognition of the United Auto Workers. They win major concessions, and the strike is often considered the birth of industrial unionism in Canada. [more]

9-04-1983 A tractor trailer drives through a picket line at a strikebound Alcan plant in Scarborough, Ontario, causing the death of Claude Dougdeen, 51, a Trinidad immigrant and father of seven. Outraged union leaders call on the province to bring in anti-scab laws. [more]

11-04-1972 More than 200,000 public sector workers, organized in the Québec Common Front, begin a ten-day strike. Three leaders are jailed, but the Common Front ultimately succeeds in winning a $100 minimum weekly wage for public employees. [more]

15-04-1937 More than 5,000 Montreal “midinettes”, most of them French Canadian women, surprise garment factory owners by going on strike for shorter hours and overtime pay. Within weeks they win a victory for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. [more]

15-04-1872 Toronto printers attract a massive crowd of 10,000 people to Queen's Park in support of their strike for the nine-hour day. Union leaders are arrested for conspiracy the next day. [more]

15-04-1903 British Columbia union organizer Frank Rogers, a longshoreman, dies after he is shot while supporting clerical workers on strike against the Canadian Pacific Railway in Vancouver. [more]

18-04-1872 The first issue of the Ontario Workman appears, with the slogan “The equalization of all elements of society in the social scale should be the true aim of civilization.” It also publishes an excerpt on "the normal working day" from Karl Marx's Capital. [more]

18-04-1872 Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald announces a Trade Union Act stating that unions are legal. This is two days after leaders of the Toronto printers, with strong public support in their strike for a nine-hour day, are arrested for common conspiracy. [more]

19-04-1974 In a targeted campaign for pay equity, postal workers begin a seven-day illegal strike that wins women postal code machine operators the same pay as male postal clerks. [more]

19-04-2023 After more than a year of bargaining, 155,000 public service workers across 30 federal government departments go out on a successful strike, marking one of the largest strikes by federal employees in Canadian history. [more]

23-04-1956 More than 1600 delegates attend the founding convention of the Canadian Labour Congress, a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress and the Canadian Congress of Labour. They call for a national health plan, full employment and a guaranteed annual wage. [more]

25-04-2004 The British Columbia Liberal government imposes a 15 per cent wages cut on health services workers. This leads to an illegal strike by 40,000 members of the Hospital Employees Union and a settlement that fails to stop the privatization of services. [more]

26-04-1918 After years of agitation by reformers and unions, the New Brunswick Workmen’s Compensation Act receives Royal Assent. [more]

27-04-1983 As part of its anti-labour agenda, the Alberta government brings in legislation denying firefighters and healthcare workers the right to strike. [more]

28-04-1984 The Canadian Labour Congress establishes the first National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. The idea of a Workers' Memorial Day is adopted by more than 100 countries around the world. [more]

29-04-1903 A sudden rock slide at Turtle Mountain kills more than 76 men, women and children in and around the town of Frank in the Crowsnest Pass. From inside the mine, 17 coal miners dig their way to safety. [more]