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Canada adds surprise 83,000 jobs in June, driving unemployment rate down to 6.9%
Canada's labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring. Statistics Canada said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 per cent in Ju...
Jul 11, 2025 Statistics Canada reported June employment figures on Friday. A worker uses an angle grinder on a vessel under construction at Seaspan Shipyards, in North Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, October 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DHL Express locks out workers across Canada, adding to parcel sector turmoil
A strike and lockout that kicked off at DHL Canada Express on Sunday will barely tap the brakes on its parcel delivery service, the company says, as the union accuses it of deploying replacement worke...
Jun 09, 2025 A DHL delivery truck passes a company facility Oct. 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Canada Post rejects union's request for binding arbitration to end labour dispute
Canada Post has rejected a request from the union representing about 55,000 of its workers to send their ongoing labour dispute to binding arbitration. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers made the re...
Jun 01, 2025 Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by end of week. Canada Post vehicles are seen parked at a delivery depot in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Canada Post, union expected to resume talks in a few days as overtime ban continues
Talks between Canada Post and negotiators from its union are expected to resume over the next few days, its union said Sunday after the two parties met amid warnings of mail delivery delays tied to a ...
May 26, 2025 People walk past the Canada Post facility in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Canada Post is set to meet with the postal workers' union on Sunday, May 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Canada Post union calls for halt to overtime as deadline passes with no agreement
The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees has called for a countrywide halt to overtime work, saying its negotiators will continue to review the latest contract offers from the mail ca...
May 23, 2025 A Canada Post worker arrives for work in Montreal on Tuesday, Dec.17, 2024. (File Photo) THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Union says Canada Post offers 'fall short' as strike deadline nears
The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees said the latest offers from the postal service "fall short" with hours to go until a looming strike deadline. In a bulletin posted late Wednes...
May 22, 2025 Canada Post employees and supporters rally as they are reflected in a window at Canada Post headquarters in Ottawa, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Economy adds 7,400 jobs in April as unemployment rate rises to 6.9%
The national unemployment rate ticked up to 6.9 per cent in April as the manufacturing sector started to strain under the weight of tariffs from the United States, Statistics Canada said Friday. The C...
May 09, 2025 Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Canada Post could be headed for another strike later this month
Canada Post employees could be headed to the picket line in just over two weeks, with existing deals between the Crown corporation and the union expiring on May 22. A strike or lockout would mark the ...
May 06, 2025 A Canada Post worker arrives for work in Montreal on Tuesday, Dec.17, 2024. (File Photo) THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
CUPE sounds alarm over health care working conditions
REGINA - Health care workers were sounding the alarm at the legislature Monday over the state of working conditions in the system. Opposition New Democrats stood alongside a delegation of medical tech...
Apr 01, 2025 Dexter Mercer speaks about the 50 hours of shifts he spent working on the job at Battlefords Union Hospital, as health critic Vicki Mowat, CUPE’s Bashir Jalloh and a delegation of medical technologists and technicians listen in. John Cairns
Union pushes for fair pay agreement, warns of health-care crisis
SASKATOON- Service Employees International Union-West (SEIU-West) president Barb Cape criticized the slow pace of collective bargaining with provincial health officials, saying they have barely made a...
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