News by subject: LBR

Forty-eight Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) members ? comprised of nurses, health-care professionals and clerical staff from the Rapids Family Health Team in Sarnia ? are entering conciliation talks today to try to reach a respectful contract and...

Around 4 a.m., UPS walked away from the bargaining table after presenting an unacceptable offer to the Teamsters that did not address members' needs. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously rejected the package....

Today, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) expresses serious concern regarding the damaging effects strikes taking place at ports across British Columbia are having on the mining industry and the broader Canadian economy. "B.C.'s ports play an...

Front-line hospital workers from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre delivered a petition to hospital management today, calling on the hospital president to take a stand against the provincial government's plan to privatize hospital services....

Nurses, health-care professionals and other staff from the Rapids Family Health Team will be picketing and distributing pamphlets this afternoon at Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey's constituency office....

Front-line nurses, medical lab technologists, healthcare aides, cleaners, clerical and other hospital staff from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre are rallying on Tuesday, July 4, committed to stopping Doug Ford's plan to contract out...

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in June for the eighth consecutive month following a 28-month period of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The report was...

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif., extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, Calif. (ONT5) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will...

ABF Freight System, Inc., a subsidiary of ArcBest Corporation , is pleased to report the new five-year ABF National Master...

Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a new national contract at ABF Freight, as well as 25 of 27 supplemental agreements. The two rejected supplements, the Southern Garage and the Western States Pickup & Delivery, reached new tentative agreement...

More than 800 resident physicians and fellows at Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) have won the right to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). This is the first unionized group of workers at...

Teamsters are celebrating the passage of Senate Bill 399 (SB399) out of the California Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment. The legislation bans mandatory attendance at "captive audience" meetings ? employer-held, closed-door gatherings where...

Parking ambassadors at the MGM National Harbor Hotel & Casino in Maryland have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 639....

Today, UPS ? under extraordinary pressure from the Teamsters to deliver a strong contract ? gave the union a revised counterproposal with significant movement on wages and other economic language. The company pleaded for the opportunity to continue...

Front-line nurses, medical lab technologists, healthcare aides, cleaners, clerical and other hospital staff from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre are rallying on Tuesday, July 4, committed to stopping Doug Ford's plan to contract out...

A group of 86 drivers at Pepsi Bottling Group LLC have voted to join Teamsters Local 988. "This is a perfect example of our union...

The ongoing efforts by...

Hydro One Inc. (Hydro One) is pleased to announce it has reached tentative settlements for two collective agreements with the Power Workers' Union (PWU) covering employees in front-line roles across the company's operations in Ontario....

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [NYSE: SPR] ("Spirit AeroSystems"), welcomes today's ratification of a new four-year contract with members of Local Lodge 839 of the International Association of Machinists...

Transdev workers represented by Teamsters Local 542 at Copley Park Place in San Diego have voted to ratify a strong contract, ending their strike. These bus workers provide paratransit services for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)....

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif, extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in Newark, Calif. (OAK7/OAK5) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will...

UPS Teamsters will rally in Des Moines on Friday, June 30, as they enter the final month of national negotiations impacting more than 340,000 package delivery drivers and warehouse logistics workers across the country, including more than 4,000...

Unifor served the Detroit Three (D3) automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis notice to bargain today on behalf of 18,000 members whose collective agreements are set to expire in September 2023. "Unifor will open negotiations with the D3 at a...

Today, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Labour, and the Honourable Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport, issued the following statement regarding the collective bargaining negotiations between the British Columbia Maritime Employers...

Corrections officers at Belknap County Department of Corrections have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 633. "Congratulations...

Some 30 members of Local 10004 of the Union of Safety and Justice Employees (USJE) demonstrated in front of the offices of their employer, C Division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to protest the withdrawal of the physical union office the...

As of 12:01 a.m. on June 28, 2023, Hydro Ottawa employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) began strike action. The collective agreement with the IBEW expired on March 31, 2023. Hydro Ottawa provided its...

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [NYSE: SPR] ("Spirit AeroSystems"), today announced the contents of a new four-year contract proposal unanimously agreed to by the bargaining committee of the Local Lodge 839...

Windsor Salt is disappointed to report that on Monday, June 26, Unifor Local 1959, representing the Ojibway mine workers, collapsed negotiations for a new labour agreement that would have ended the approximately 132 days long strike. ...

Unifor has uncovered more contracting out of permanent, unionized jobs on the site simplyhired.ca, the fourth such discovery this year by the union. "Scott Moe needs to answer to SaskTel customers and the people of Saskatchewan: why the rush to...

The Teamsters Union categorically denies the baseless allegations made by Yellow Corporation in its frivolous lawsuit filed today....

Nurses, health-care professionals and other staff from the Rapids Family Health Team will be holding two information pickets this week in Sarnia....

On June 22, the bargaining committee for Canada Coast Guard Marine Communications and Traffic Service Officers at Local 2182 reached a tentative agreement with the Government of Canada that will see no concessions and a 10.75% wage increase over four...

Nurses, health-care professionals and other staff from the Rapids Family Health Team will be holding two information pickets this week in Sarnia....

Today, Attentive Energy One (AE1), a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power, announced...

A union meeting took place today in Shawville, Outaouais, where 100 school bus drivers, members of the Local 106 of the Teamsters Union, approved the latest offer from Autobus Lasalle, a subsidiary of Sogesco, by 81%. Autobus Lasalle is responsible...

Striking Palmdale Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers extended their picket lines to a second Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino (ONT1) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will continue until...

On Friday afternoon, as Toronto Pride Weekend 2023 was getting underway, Fairmont Royal York managers began approaching employees wearing union pins with the pride rainbow and demanding that they remove them from their uniforms. Managers informed...

Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers went on strike today to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The strike will continue until Amazon remedies its unfair labor practices and recognizes and bargains with the Teamsters...

The Teamsters are commending U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, as well as the Democratic Senators on the committee, for voting in favor of passing the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act....

Specialized medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) at Campbellford Memorial Hospital have taken the rare step of calling in an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) to investigate issues in the hospital's inpatient medical unit and special care...

Southwest Airlines Co.  and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) for the airline's Mechanics & Related Employees. "Our Mechanics & Related Employees work around the clock to safely maintain our...

NetJets pilots are expected to perform international, extended overwater and mountainous airport operations like their Part 121 peers, but this is where the similarities end. Not only do NetJets pilots, whose professional interests are represented by...

Teamsters Local 11 members at Nestlé rallied this week to demand the company keep its Freehold coffee plant open and called out the corporation for shifting production to Mexico....

The 2022 to 2023 Civil Grand Jury published its "Time to Get to Work: San...

In two separate elections, drivers at 10 Roads Express in Edgerton and Colby, Kan., have voted to join the Teamsters. They are seeking better benefits and fair work rules....

Today, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) announced the publication of a brand new Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) protocol focused on improving performance in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).  Released in tandem with a...

Resident and fellow physicians at Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) will announce the outcome of a National Labor Relations Board election on Thursday, June 22, determining whether 800 frontline providers working at hospitals...

More than 150 registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals ? members of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) ? will hold a march, information picket and rally tomorrow in Thunder Bay, calling on the Ford government to drop their dangerous...

In light of the decision to strike by Spirit AeroSystems employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers today, Spirit will suspend factory production prior to the expiration of the contract. Beginning with...