Tory Leader's promise to eliminate 100,000 public sector jobs is "extremist," union president Warren (Smokey) Thomas says. ...
Category: Jobs and Employment
Happening: Aecon says Waterloo LRT project deal finalized
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Unemployment rate edges higher to 7.4 per cent
Just in time for an election campaign in which jobs and the economy are key issues, some hard data from Statistics Canada for candidates to bandy about. ...
Tentative agreement reached for Resolute workers
In addition to pay hikes, contract continues a partnership with Unifor on efficiency and workplace safety. ...
NDP says tax credit will help cut jobless rate in Ontario
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the party's tax credits could create up to 170,000 jobs by paying employers 10 per cent of the salaries of new hires. ...
Unilever plant shutdown to help focus campaign on jobs
The Brampton soup-making plant will close by the spring of 2016, eliminating 280 jobs as production moves to Missouri. ...
Future of forestry in the northwest looks to bio-economy
A Thunder Bay research centre is trying to encourage companies to think outside the (paper) box to keep their mills as going concerns. ...
Union aims to keep ‘right-to-work’ laws a front-burner issue
The Ontario Public Sector Employees Union is enlisting help from a South Carolina state senator in its effort to show the potential harm it sees in Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's proposed labour reforms. ...
Paper mill closing raises stakes in northern jobs issue
Just in time for election campaigning, Resolute Forest Products says it will shut down a mill in Fort Frances that had been idled for some time and that now has "no economically viable option." ...
Hospitals bemoan $125 million in new costs in nurses’ deal
In an arbitrated settlement (that was also panned by the nurses), a possible preview of public sector contract bargaining that will please no one. ...
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