Labour
“We wish you a Merry Christmas with no service cuts!:” postal workers to Fredericton MP
Fredericton - Fredericton postal workers and members of the Fredericton District Labour Council (FDLC) delivered a message against cuts to...
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Coalition gives peanuts to MLAs, urges pay equity [audio]
Elizabeth Blaney (right) giving peanuts with a message that says "Merry Christmas! Tis the season. Give...
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UNB profs in strike position: interview with union president Miriam Jones
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) full time academic staff are in a strike position. They have been without a...
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Max Haiven on universities, labour struggle and the commodification of education
An image from occupywallst.org, calling for a global education strike in the fall of 2012 Max...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Job cuts in laundry services hint at larger privatization plan
Laundry facilities at the Moncton Hospital and Tracadie-Sheila Hospital closed on November 1st throwing 22 workers at the Moncton Hospital...
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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...
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