Jerry Dias

Canada's largest private-sector union is calling on the federal government to push back a port plan that would impose tighter environmental restrictions on container trucks.

Unifor president Jerry Dias says Air Canada continues to promise refunds for passengers whose flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The federal Liberals are rolling out a $37-billion income-support plan for workers whose earnings have crashed during the pandemic, providing a hint of future changes to the social safety net — and igniting a debate about what should stay.

Provincial and federal leaders alike conceded the futility on Monday, November 26, 2018, of trying to persuade General Motors to keep its Oshawa, Ont., automotive plant running beyond 2019, and instead focused on ways to ease the pain of more than 2,500 workers who stand to lose their jobs.

With threats of devastating U.S. tariffs hanging over the auto sector, Canada's economic development minister says Ottawa is considering every possible way it could respond if the Trump administration follows through on its warning.

Unifor and the Canadian Labour Congress both say they're optimistic that peacemaking efforts from Ontario's largest public sector union can help them end their war over the rights of workers to choose which union should represent them.

Canada's counter-proposals on controversial American demands for a renewed NAFTA were not rejected out of hand by the United States at talks Thursday, providing a glimmer of hope that the continental trade pact may yet be saved.

The United States has published an updated list of NAFTA negotiating objectives to reflect some of its tougher-than-anticipated demands in a reminder of the difficult hoeing ahead as parties seek fertile ground for a deal.

Just hours before Bombardier Inc. was to unveil a dramatic plan to escape its latest crisis, Jerry Dias was summoned to Montreal to meet with Alain Bellemare, the beleaguered firm's chief executive.

The U.S. is presenting a quadruple-whammy demand on auto manufacturing at the NAFTA negotiations, including a strict "Made In America" requirement.

The head of Unifor says General Motors has declared "war on Canada" by ramping up production of its Equinox SUV in Mexico to do more work currently done in Ontario.

Negotiators have run into a series of early sticking points on nearly every major element considered key to achieving a new NAFTA agreement, The Canadian Press has learned.

​Ontario says it will align itself with California to fight for climate change following President Donald Trump's decision to re-examine fuel efficiency regulations in the auto sector.

Senior federal officials were told in the spring that the government could make it mandatory for all workers countrywide to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.