Community residence workers want release of pay equity report
Fredericton - Workers, residential agencies and the NB Coalition for Pay Equity are asking the government to release the report ...
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Invest NB and CGI: business as usual, as usual
Some CANADAEAST dailies recently (November 22) featured a front page story on “high end” jobs coming to Fredericton and Moncton. ...
More needs to be done to protect and acknowledge New Brunswick nurses
Nurses are among our most vulnerable public servants, potentially putting themselves in harms way almost every day just by showing ...
Harper’s EI changes: serving a long tradition of flooding the low wage market
After the federal government introduced major changes and cuts to the Employment Insurance (EI) system last January, hundreds of protests ...
Reducing poverty is fashionable where equality is unimaginable
Fredericton - An anti-poverty group says the New Brunswick Alward government's poverty reduction plan will not alleviate poverty. The government ...
What if Ma and Pa mistreat their workers? When supporting local is not good
Recently, while patronizing an eatery in the region, I was reminded that one should not assume that locally-owned small businesses ...
When losing your job is supposed to be good for you
Salesforce.com, an American IT company located in Fredericton, which received some of our hard earned tax dollars in wage subsidies, ...
Home support workers should not subsidize employer payroll costs
The NB Coalition for Pay Equity is shocked to learn that home support workers’ retroactive pay equity adjustments for 2012-2013 ...
More job creation potential in clean energy than in oil and gas
Government leaders and a number of other pundits are telling us that New Brunswick needs the shale gas industry and ...
Nova Scotia’s NDP revokes paramedics’ right-to-strike
On July 5, Nova Scotia’s New Democratic government reconvened the legislature to pass a special law revoking the right-to-strike for ...
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