In Ontario, the union representing SNC-Lavalin Group’s engineers has filed a complaint with the national labour board after its subsidiary, Candu Energy Inc., gave its employees one day’s notice that working at the
In national news, the House of Commons transportation committee has published a report describing the Canada Infrastructure Bank as a wasteful, “absolute” failure, and calls for its dissolution. According to the report, the CIB
In Ontario, the carpenters’ union has ratified a deal providing pay increases of 10-12.5% over three years, and the 15,000 striking carpenters will now return to work. As many as 40,000 construction workers
In Ontario, operating engineers (including crane operators) have agreed to a deal in the midst of sector-wide strikes, including a raise of $3 per hour in each of the next three years. This
In national news, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, a small-business lobby group, is demanding that provincial workers’ compensation boards across the country rebate billions of dollars of surplus funds to the businesses who
In Ontario news, more than 21,000 residential construction workers in the province went on strike on May 2 after the expiration of their last round of three-year contracts on April 30, including the
