60 nations join forces to push for Tobin Tax

Small levy on international currency transactions would generate an estimated $35 billion annually.

President James Clancy’s Labour Day message

It’s time for Canada to put into practice our international commitments to labour rights.

Nova Scotia rallies support for deputy sheriffs

'Now is a good time for all civil service members — and all NSGEU members — to speak up about the vital importance of having enough workers to do the work.' - NSGEU.

Canada's governments need to be much more open

Information and privacy commissioners from across the country call on governments to change their overly secretive practices.

Care centre fails to pay wages owed to workers

'Laid-off workers have not received their severance entitlements despite an employment standards regulation requiring the employer to pay out all wages within 48 hours.' - BCGEU.

Candidates pledge to improve N.B. health care

Liberals would add 55 more doctors and double the number of health care clinics and nurse practitioners.

Small victory for exploited migrant farm workers

$400 deposit fee finally dropped but other 'outrageous' exploitation practices against Guatemalan migrants continue in Quebec, says UFCW Canada.

Duty to accommodate - big labour movement victory

'Most of the accommodation solutions are inexpensive and don't turn the workplace upside down.'

CMA Journal article backs drug injection site

'We're calling on the federal government to drop the current action they have in the Supreme Court.'

Public health care to fund private surgeries in Regina

Saskatchewan Party government eroding public health care system, say critics.

Charges laid in deaths of mushroom farm workers

Two companies and four corporate officials face a total of 29 charges for failure to protect the safety of employees.

NBUPPE says grades of N.B. parties improving

All parties except Liberals want to make at least some change in 'first past the post' elections.

OPSEU human rights conference set for Nov. 12-14

'Workers continue to face discrimination based on gender, age, race, sexual orientation, disability and other factors unrelated to their work.'

Mediation scheduled in strike by NOSM employees

Strike began in mid-August against Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

Sept. 1 NSGEU rallies to support deputy sheriffs

Rallies planned at noon on Wednesday in Sydney, Halifax and New Glasgow.

NUPGE's 12th Leadership School: 'All together now!'

Making strategic choices during challenging times was a key theme of the NUPGE's 2010 Leadership Development School.

NUPGE responds to flood crisis in Pakistan

NUPGE and its Component unions have contributed $50,000 so far as fallout from the disaster in Pakistan escalates.

B.C. school boards unable to use $1 billion in cash

Money sits unused in low-interest accounts because spending it would create accounting "deficits" that are forbidden by provincial law.

NUPGE presses Ottawa on Burma rights campaign

'The record of horrific human rights abuses by the military government of Burma is lengthy.' - James Clancy.

New Ontario pension proposals don't go far enough

Maximum coverage of $1,000 a month when company pensions fail falls far short of recommended $2,500 level of support.

Negotiations break off in Burin-Marystown strike

NAPE accuses employer of discrimination against women while managers are paid up to $40 an hour.

New contract for 7,700 N.S. civil service workers

Two-year deal ratified after 'a lot of hard work' by NSGEU negotiators who were constrained by a climate of 'ongoing program review' within the government.

Canada must not bow to this Caesar from Clamato

Please sign to petition to stop a U.S. beverage company from milking Canada's good name for corporate profits.

B.C. parks hurt by budget cuts and poor enforcement

'The auditor general’s findings are entirely consistent with what our members have been saying for years.' - Byron Goerz, BCGEU.

Environment Canada losing grasp of climate change

Years of cuts have put Canada's federal national weather agency 'on the road to junior partner status.'