Management workers building public transit vehicles four weeks into a strike by 900 unionized workers over a two-tiered pension plan. ...
Category: Jobs and Employment
Steel industry injured by rebar imports, tribunal rules
Following complaint by Canadian firms about dumping from China, Turkey and South Korea, duties are in the works on imports of a key component in infrastructure projects. ...
Heard: Ontario’s new-housing market to rebound, CMHC says
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War on austerity focuses on cuts to emergency services
Ontario's largest public service unions say major service cuts in several rural Ontario communities will greatly impact public safety. ...
Heard: OSSTF head to lay down ‘foundation’ for teacher bargaining
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Heard: SNC-Lavalin to manage $450 million in building projects
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IBM connects with Toronto’s burgeoning IT economy
Technology giant opens a downtown cloud-computing data centre, adding 40 jobs and catering to the city's financial district, in a move that fits with the provincial government's economic refocusing effort. ...
Kathleen Wynne helps mark halfway point of Confederation LRT
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and half-a-dozen other politicians to mark the 50-per-cent completion of the Confederation Light Rail Transit line in Ottawa. ...
CUPE files court challenge over Air Canada flight staffing
Citing safety concerns, the union is asking the Federal Court to rescind a Transport Canada decision allowing Air Canada to raise passenger-to-flight-attendant ratio to 50:1 from 40:1. ...
Full-time work dries up as jobless rate falls to 7.4 per cent
Ontario's unemployment rate improved to 7.4 per cent in July, albeit at a cost of about 29,300 full-time jobs. ...