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Canada Quebec Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures [Global] 17-05-2025

Canada No Surprise: Government Ordered Commission Report, Recommends the Vast Majority of Canada Post’s Positions [CUPW] 17-05-2025

Canada Quebec Returning longshore workers greeted with an honour guard in Quebec City [CUPE] 16-05-2025

Canada Statement from Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, on the swearing-in of Prime Minister Carney’s Cabinet [CLC] 14-05-2025

Canada Alberta AFL's Gil McGowan on the Solidarity Pact and Common Front [LabourStart Podcasts] 14-05-2025

Canada Trump policies stall Honda EV investment, further threatening Canadian auto jobs [Unifor] 13-05-2025

Canada Ontario Five unionised Starbucks stores in Ontario reach first contracts [Retail Insight Network] 12-05-2025

Canada Ontario Ford and Bill 5’s “special economic zones” bring worst US-style labour practices to our province [CUPE] 10-05-2025

Canada Pesticides, rats and mould: Canada’s migrant workers exposed to ‘unsafe and undignified’ conditions, new report says [CITY] 10-05-2025

Canada Who owns a pension surplus? The workers or the employer? [RadioLabour] 10-05-2025


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Parks Canada delegates set priorities and elect new bargaining team 2025-05-17 [PSAC]

No Surprise: Government Ordered Commission Report, Recommends the Vast Majority of Canada Post’s Positions 2025-05-17 [CUPW]

Canada Post report puts union in tight spot, experts say 2025-05-17 [CHEK]

Canada Post should end daily door-to-door delivery, allow part-time work on weekends, report recommends 2025-05-17 [CBC]

Quebec Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures 2025-05-17 [Global]

Ontario “Health care workers must have the right to protest:” OCHU-CUPE condemns Ottawa mayor’s push for ‘bubble zone’ by-law 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Ontario Budget fails workers and students — OSBCU calls for adequate funding for public education and urgent action 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Ontario A budget of smoke, mirrors and spin won’t protect Ontario jobs in the tariff wars 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Saskatchewan Taking rainbow action to build safe communities 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Ontario A Letter to Ontario Workers from OCEU President Harry Goslin 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Ontario Doug Ford hands $4 billion to bosses while leaving injured workers in the lurch 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Saskatchewan CUPE members in Saskatchewan celebrate disability service professionals week 2025-05-17 [CUPE]

Quebec Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures 2025-05-16 [Canadian Press]

VIDEO Ontario Union representing some Durham school bus drivers reaches tentative deal, averting strike action 2025-05-16 [Global]

British Columbia Victoria rejects reduced cannabis store staffing 2025-05-16 [the oz.]

New Brunswick Spectre of school job cuts sparks union to delay contract vote 2025-05-16 [The Telegraph-Journal]

SMART Canada wins funding to help members take on clean energy work 2025-05-16 [SMART]

Are Air Canada flight attendants going on strike? Here’s what we know so far 2025-05-16 [Daily Hive]

Ontario Ontarians expect government to defend jobs by investing in public services 2025-05-16 [CUPE]

Quebec Deteriorating conditions in health and social services denounced by four unions at Montréal West Island CIUSSS 2025-05-16 [CUPE]

Quebec Returning longshore workers greeted with an honour guard in Quebec City 2025-05-16 [CUPE]

Ontario OSBCU calls on Ford government to immediately address understaffing and funding crisis in education 2025-05-16 [CUPE]

Spring 2025 GLRC Writing Retreat 2025-05-16 [Global Labour Research Centre]

Ontario Budget provides some safeguards, but more is needed amidst Trump tariffs 2025-05-15 [Unifor]

Ontario Ontario budget shortchanges public education, fails to fund supports students need 2025-05-15 [ETFO]

British Columbia Ranalletta re-elected President of CUPE BC, province’s largest union 2025-05-15 [CUPE BC]

Ontario Ford's budget delivers for corporations, fails working Ontario's again 2025-05-15 [OFL]

  JOB  Alberta Program Analyst, Digital Campaigner 2025-05-15 [HSAA]

  JOB  Ontario Employment Relations Officer – NCR (12-month term) 2025-05-15 [PIPSC]

  JOB  Ontario Classification and Pay Equity Officer (12-month Term) 2025-05-15 [PIPSC]

  JOB  British Columbia Provincial Executive Leadership Strategist 2025-05-15 [HEU]

  JOB  Ontario Additional Qualifications (AQ) Coordinator (temp) 2025-05-15 [OSSTF]

British Columbia After a Tough Drive, Support Staff on a Floating Work Camp Unionize 2025-05-15 [Tyee]

Alberta Alberta Heads Toward a Showdown with Its Workers 2025-05-15 [Tyee]

Northwest Territories Changes to Public Service Act a long time coming 2025-05-15 [UNW]

DeSousa: A strong Canada means being a global leader on the academic stage 2025-05-15 [PSAC]

British Columbia Starbucks workers in Oak Bay file to join the United Steelworkers union 2025-05-15 [USW]

Ontario 2 former migrant workers detail their experiences living on Ontario farms 2025-05-15 [RCI]

Talks Between Canada Post and Union Paused With Week Remaining to Reach Agreement 2025-05-15 [VOCM]

Air Canada flight attendant union forced to file for conciliation in fight for fairness 2025-05-15 [CUPE]

Quebec 1320 STM employees vote in favour of a strike mandate 2025-05-15 [CUPE]

Canada Post, union trade shots as talks stall a week before postal workers could walk off job 2025-05-14 [Toronto Star]

Saskatchewan Nursing and health care in Saskatchewan: 'We can do better' 2025-05-14 [Leader-Post]

Air Canada's flight attendants are closer to a possible strike. Here is what to know 2025-05-14 [Vancouver is Awesome]

Tory MP, unions concerned about lack of labour minister amid Trump's tariffs 2025-05-14 [Canadian Press]

Quebec Bill 97: Unifor Quebec denounces a failed reform and calls for a fair, sustainable, and inclusive forestry regime 2025-05-14 [Unifor]

VIDEO New Brunswick Interprovincial free trade a ‘Trojan Horse for deregulation’: labour leaders 2025-05-14 [Co-op Media]

British Columbia LifeLabs Strike Highlights the Risks of Foreign Ownership 2025-05-14 [Tyee]

Alberta AFL's Gil McGowan on the Solidarity Pact and Common Front 2025-05-14 [LabourStart Podcasts]

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This month in labour history


1-05-1986 Shirley Carr becomes the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress. A coal miner's daughter who became a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, she is also the first CLC president from a public sector union. [more]

1-05-1906 Socialists in Montreal organize Canada's first May Day demonstration. The following year ten thousand people assemble in the Champs de Mars before the crowd is dispersed by police. [more]

2-05-1952 More than 1,000 retail employees, most of them women, begin a strike at Dupuis Frères, a major department store in Montréal. It takes three months, but support for the new militancy among Catholic unions helps the workers win a collective agreement. [more]

3-05-1887 British Columbia's worst mine disaster takes 150 lives after an explosion in a deep underground mine at Nanaimo. The casualties include 53 Chinese labourers, whose names were not recorded by the company. [more]

4-05-1937 In one of a wave of strikes in Québec this year, workers at the shipyards in Sorel demand union recognition, better wages, and reinstatement of dismissed union leaders. [more]

5-05-1972 Saskatchewan brings in an Occupational Health (and Safety) Act, considered the first of its kind in North America. It includes the right to information about workplace hazards, to participate in safety decisions and to refuse unsafe work. [more]

9-05-1972 Leaders of the Québec Common Front go to jail for defying back to work laws during the April general strike. More than 300,000 workers participate in work stoppages and occupations that bring the provincial government back to the bargaining table [more]

9-05-1992 An underground explosion takes the lives of 26 miners in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. A public inquiry into the Westray Disaster blames politicians, managers and bureaucrats for creating “a predictable path to disaster.” [more]

14-05-1940 Emma Goldman, the veteran feminist, labour and anarchist organizer, dies in Toronto, Ontario. A memorial service is held at the Labour Lyceum on Spadina Avenue. She is buried with the Haymarket martyrs in Chicago. [more]

15-05-1872 Some 1500 workers in Hamilton, Ontario take to the streets under the banners of the Nine Hours movement, to demonstrate for a reduction in working hours. [more]

15-05-1946 A six-week strike by loggers in British Columbia begins, the first after the achievement of collective bargaining rights during the war. The strike helps set postwar standards by achieving higher wages, shorter hours, and an industry-wide contract. [more]

15-05-1919 A general strike called by the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council brings out 30,000 workers in support of the unions in the building and metal trades. The city comes to a standstill for six weeks in one of the major labour struggles in Canadian history. [more]

18-05-1952 The American singer and activist Paul Robeson performs for more than 25,000 people at a union-sponsored concert at the Peace Arch between Washington State and British Columbia. His passport had been revoked and he was prevented from crossing the border. [more]

21-05-1975 After police bludgeon striking workers at United Aircraft in Longueuil, Québec, a general strike brings out 100,000 protesters. Later, a new government changes labour laws to support union security and ban the use of strikebreakers. [more]

23-05-1921 The Communist Party of Canada is founded at a three-day meeting in a barn in Guelph, Ontario. The party achieves its greatest influence in the 1930s and 1940s organizing unemployed workers and industrial unions, and in struggles against war and fascism. [more]

24-05-1919 Coal miners in Drumheller, Alberta go on strike for recognition of the One Big Union after they vote overwhelmingly to leave the United Mine Workers of America. [more]

26-05-1919 Thousands of workers in Calgary and Edmonton go on strike in solidarity with their Winnipeg counterparts. [more]

28-05-1927 The House of Commons approves a limited old age pension plan. To qualify, Canadians must be 70 years of age and pass a means test. Also, they must live in a participating province. [more]