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Canada Here is why Air Canada's flight attendants might go on strike [Burnaby Now] 12-10-2024

Canada Air Canada Pilots Vote to Ratify Collective Agreement [ALPA] 10-10-2024

Canada Pierre Poilievre: in it for banks, billionaires, and big polluters – not for you [CUPE] 09-10-2024

Canada Alberta Save the Date – Alberta Labour Day of Action [CUPE] 08-10-2024

Canada Montreal dockworkers to halt all overtime work as talks drag on [Toronto Star] 07-10-2024

Canada Quebec Montreal port strike ends, but tensions linger [CBC] 03-10-2024

Canada Six years of minimum wage freeze leaves lowest-paid Albertans crushed by rising cost of living [AFL] 01-10-2024

Canada True reconciliation requires meaningful action, not just symbolic gestures [CLC] 30-09-2024

Canada 300,000 aerospace workers need help [RadioLabour] 28-09-2024

Canada Ontario Western's use of replacement workers a rare 'hardball tactic,' labour expert says [CBC] 27-09-2024


Other news


Alberta Nurses union membership to vote on mediator-recommended settlement with province 2024-10-13 [CTV]

Alberta Union says negotiations with AHS broke down over wages 2024-10-13 [Outlook]

Quebec Long-term care workers seek end to use of untrained workers 2024-10-13 [CBC]

Newfoundland and Labrador NLMA President Raises Concerns Over After-Hours Paperwork Leading to Physician Burnout 2024-10-13 [VOCM]

Ontario Cinema workers at SilverCity Brampton join union 2024-10-12 [UFCW]

Here is why Air Canada's flight attendants might go on strike 2024-10-12 [Burnaby Now]

Nurses unions celebrate historic win as national pharmacare legislation passes 2024-10-12 [CFNU]

DFO must take action on dangerous working conditions for Fishery Officers 2024-10-12 [PSAC]

British Columbia Job action to cut some B.C. inland ferries sailings by 50% 2024-10-12 [CBC]

Taxation employees say they need more staffing 2024-10-12 [BBC]

“Foreign Dreams” exhibition highlights migrant worker experiences 2024-10-12 [Canadian Immigrant]

Saskatchewan Largest police union uses media posts, website to 'educate' voters on marshals service 2024-10-12 [CBC]

Yukon Unions split from group geared to getting Yukon more health-care workers 2024-10-12 [Yukon News]

Government refuses to take accountability for Canada Life fiasco 2024-10-12 [PSAC]

Alberta Union says negotiations with AHS broke down over wages 2024-10-12 [The Gazette]

Ontario Union asks government to reconsider making untrained aides a fixture of long-term care 2024-10-12 [Today]

History Made: Pharmacare will soon be law 2024-10-12 [CUPE]

CUPE supports campaigns of migrant justice in Canada 2024-10-12 [CUPE]

Manitoba Health workers deal has steep pay hikes 2024-10-11 [The Free Press]

Historic win for Canadians as the Pharmacare Act passes 2024-10-11 [CLC]

Survey shows strong support for remote work as productivity in the federal public service climbs 2024-10-11 [PSAC]

Alberta Nurses union membership to vote on mediator-recommended settlement with province 2024-10-11 [CTV]

Alberta IAM Brings ‘Be More Than a Bystander’ Training to Local 99 Finning Members in Canada 2024-10-11 [IAM]

Air Canada pilots vote in favour of new contract, eliminating risk of strike 2024-10-11 [CBC]

Quebec Port of Montreal dockworkers launch overtime strike 2024-10-11 [Global]

Steelworkers Humanity Fund Annual Report 2023 2024-10-11 [USW]

Newfoundland and Labrador Use of Foreign Workers to Aid Bustling Cruise Industry Threatening Local Jobs: Union 2024-10-11 [VOCM]

Ontario Tentative agreement with Western University workers 2024-10-11 [CUPE]

Manitoba MASC Admin members ratify new agreement 2024-10-10 [MGEU]

Alberta AB private sector union worker raises on the rise 2024-10-10 [Alberta Worker]

Manitoba Long-term care workers at Vista Park Lodge ratify new contract 2024-10-10 [UFCW]

British Columbia Camp Workers at Red Chris Mine Vote in Favour of Strike Action 2024-10-10 [UniteHere Local 40]

Nova Scotia Autoport Charney workers achieve major wage increases and pension gains 2024-10-10 [Unifor]

British Columbia Labour Board rules against Holiday Inn Downtown over failure to bargain in good faith 2024-10-10 [UniteHere Local 40]

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Federation of Labour echoes urgent call to prioritize mental health in workplace 2024-10-10 [NSFL]

VIDEO Nova Scotia Unifor's Jennifer Murray on intimate partner violence bill passing in Nova Scotia 2024-10-10 [Unifor]

CANSA members defend their right to strike and calls out NAV Canada for rejecting pattern bargaining 2024-10-10 [Unifor]

Newfoundland and Labrador EVAS Unifor members vote unanimously in favour of strike action 2024-10-10 [Unifor]

Air Canada Pilots Vote to Ratify Collective Agreement 2024-10-10 [ALPA]

  JOB   Executive Director 2024-10-10 [CFLPA]

  JOB   Union Representative 2024-10-10 [SEIU]

Ontario Facilities workers reach tentative deal with Western University 6 weeks into strike 2024-10-10 [CBC]

Ontario Ford government is sabotaging its own home care reforms by refusing to improve wages for Ontario’s worst paid public sector workers — mainly female, often racialized 2024-10-10 [The Star]

Ontario Facilities workers reach tentative deal with Western University 6 weeks into strike 2024-10-10 [CBC]

New Brunswick Finding the joy in long-term care with Pat Armstrong 2024-10-10 [CHC]

Yukon Unions quit steering committee aimed at fixing Yukon's health worker crisis 2024-10-10 [CBC]

British Columbia Budtenders’ Union gives strike notice to Vancouver Canna Cabana 2024-10-10 [Stratcann]

Quebec Port of Montreal dockworkers set to launch overtime strike as contract talks continue 2024-10-10 [CITY]

Ontario Union asks government to reconsider making untrained aides a fixture of long-term care 2024-10-10 [The Trillium]

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This month in labour history


1-10-1741 Workers at the Royal Shipyard in Québec organize the first recorded strike in Canadian history. [more]

6-10-2011 A first H&M retail outlet in Canada is organized in Mississauga, Ontario, where workers vote to be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers. [more]

7-10-1969 When firefighters and police officers go on strike in Montreal, taxi drivers take action against the Murray Hill bus company. [more]

8-10-1906 At Buckingham, Québec, workers locked out for organizing a union at the MacLaren pulp mill are attacked by company police. Union officers Thomas Bélanger and François Thériault are shot dead. [more]

12-10-1975 Grace Hartman is elected National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. She becomes the first woman in North American history to lead a major union. [more]

12-10-1973 A strike by immigrant workers at the Artistic Woodwork factory in suburban Toronto attracts strong support from political activists. The strike exposes the role of police in protecting strikebreakers. [more]

13-10-1944 The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada charters Federal Labour Union 180 at Vancouver General Hospital. This is the beginning of the Hospital Employees' Union of British Columbia, now the province's largest health care union. [more]

14-10-1976 In Canada's first country-wide general strike, one million workers join a Day of Protest against the federal government's wage controls policy. [more]

16-10-1963 More than 200 nurses start an illegal strike at the Hôpital Sainte-Justine in Montréal. They are seeking an end to overwork and recognition of their role in the health system. The thirty-day strike achieves a settlement that encourages unionization. [more]

18-10-1935 Farm labourer Nicholas Schaack, 51, dies in hospital following head injuries received on Market Square in Regina on Dominion Day, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police brought the On to Ottawa Trek of unemployed workers to a violent end. [more]

19-10-1996 When General Motors tries to break a Canadian Autoworkers strike by removing equipment, union members occupy the Oshawa plants. [more]

22-10-1972 Feminists in Vancouver, found SORWUC – the Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada. They sought to represent workers in marginalised, low-paying, largely female-dominated sectors that weren’t high priorities for established unions. [more]

23-10-1958 At Springhill, Nova Scotia, 75 men are killed in a mine disaster and 81 miners are rescued the next day. A group of twelve miners are rescued on 30 October and a final group of seven are located and brought to the surface on 1 November. [more]

25-10-1900 Soldiers are called out by the mayor of Valleyfield, Québec. They open fire on construction workers to put down a strike at the Montreal Cotton Company mill. [more]

25-10-1917 Birth of labour activist Kent Rowley, in Montreal. He becomes Canadian director of the United Textile Workers of America in the 1940s and a founder of the Confederation of Canadian Unions in 1968. [more]

27-10-1997 More than 125,000 Ontario teachers walk out to protest the province's plans to cut school budgets and centralize control over education. The two-week protest affects two million students and is the largest teachers’ strike in North American history. [more]

29-10-1971 A protest against a lockout at the daily La Presse in Montreal ends in a street battle between thousands of workers and police. When tear gas is used, student activist Michele Gauthier, an expectant mother, dies of suffocation. [more]