Honouring NB’s labour heroes
For their long years of service to organized labour in this province, two names were added to the Honour Roll ...
Tag: labour
Miner protests lack of compensation for NB workplace disease
Roger LeBlanc, a retired miner who blames his illnesses on working in underground mines, came to Fredericton today, May 15, ...
Tim McCarthy: A New Brunswick Citizen-Worker
New Brunswick last month lost a man who fits the classic description of the citizen-worker. That's a term historians use ...
4,000 kilometre commute: how the struggle for a living wage gave rise to Canada’s own temporary migrant workers
Mark English draws out every sip of coffee, savouring the last few hours at home before a six-hour commute to ...
St. Thomas University’s staff and administration union could strike
On January 7, workers in St. Thomas University's Staff and Administrative Union (STUSAU), organized under the Public Service Alliance of ...
Empowering communities from the bottom up: NB election was a referendum on shale gas
Shale gas protest march in Fredericton in November 2012. Photo by Stephanie Merrill. The September 2014 ...
Unacceptable reforms made to Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
Photo from Basics Community News Service. The recently announced reform of the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) ...
Give the gift of permanent status to migrant workers
Photo of a press conference by the Caregivers' Action Centre. Photo from the Caregivers' Action Centre. ...
Why a Fredericton first responder’s struggle with PTSD should alarm us
Fredericton - Jeff Mack, a firefighter for 26 years, says one call a decade ago in Fredericton left him with ...
“Reverse the cuts to EI Keith Ashfield!”: unions launch campaign targeted at Conservative MPs
Steve McCuaig, national president of Canada Employment and Immigration Union (seen here), told rally goers that ...
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