Labour
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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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What does Lac-Mégantic tell us about Canada’s railways
Photo by Yves Tremblay, Photohelico.com. Five people confirmed dead. Forty people missing, some of whom might...
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Shale gas protests in pictures
A driver of a thumper truck (used in shale gas exploration) steps forward to be smudged...
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CUPE members send letters of support to Filipino political prisoners
Fredericton - Daniel Legere sent over 200 letters in support of Filipino political prisoners from CUPE New Brunswick members today...
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Student rights and the right to education
Reflections on tactics and strategy after the Québec Maple Spring “Nothing about us, without us, is for us.” - Slogan of...
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Business journalists go on the attack, demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
About 100 people rallied against Harper's cuts to the EI program over the noon hour in...
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