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As extreme heat events become more commonplace in Canada, labour groups, advocates and researchers are calling for a maximum temperature policy that would force workplaces to put protections in place for their employees when the mercury rises.

Despite differences of opinion, a clear majority of delegates voted to adopt the Canadian Labour Congress’ proposed climate action plan at its 2023 convention in Montreal.

Canada's largest labour organization passed two resolutions Monday vowing to address climate change, a just transition to clean energy and green industrial policy in a way that's fair to workers. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is raising questions about Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s husband and his role in the upcoming provincial election campaign.

Ontario education workers approved a tentative deal with their employer, the union representing them said Monday, pledging to keep up the fight for more investment in schools after wrestling with the Ford government last month.

Ontario's education workers have issued a second strike notice, saying contract talks are stalled over the Ford government’s unwillingness to invest more in services for students.

It was a busy day at Queen’s Park on Monday, with education workers getting back their right to strike and Ontario’s government projecting a budget deficit that critics warn could be used to avoid paying them and other public sector workers a living wage.

Under threat of a general strike, the Ontario government walked back a controversial law last week. What else could a general strike accomplish?

In the space of nine days, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government drew up, imposed and promised to withdraw a law that invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause to block any opposition to its enforced four-year pay offer to Canadian Union of Public Employees members.

The Ford government tried to legislate away Ontario workers’ bargaining rights last week. Instead, it likely needs to sweeten the deal it’s proposing to emboldened education workers.

The Ontario government ordered the province’s lowest-paid education workers back to work Monday, setting up a legislative and operational standoff ahead of a planned Friday strike.

The Ford government’s proposal of annual pay raises up to two per cent for its public school system’s lowest-paid workers was “disheartening,” the union representing 55,000 education assistants, library workers, custodians and other school staff said.

A union official says Air Canada is laying off more than 5,000 flight attendants as the country's largest airline cuts routes and parks planes due to COVID-19.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting suggestions his government should have moved to tax foreign web giants in his recent budget, saying he doesn't want to hurt Canadian taxpayers.

The largest private sector union in Canada said on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, it is splitting with the Canadian Labour Congress over issues which include disagreements about the rights of workers to choose what union should represent them.