Nursing home workers occupy Social Development office to demand a return to negotiations
May Day brought a new look to the Department of Social Development office in Fredericton as nursing home workers staged ...
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Mayworks Festival begins in Fredericton
Artists and workers invite all to celebrate the fifth annual Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts in Fredericton ...
Outgoing CUPE NB president Daniel Légère praised as “an elevater”
A chapter in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) New Brunswick’s history has closed with Daniel Légère’s end of ...
The Bethel Nursing Home Strike in 1981-82
Nursing home workers in New Brunswick fought long and hard to win the right to negotiate their wages and working ...
Nursing home residents deserve quality care
The government is the main funder for Community Nursing Homes in New Brunswick. So, what purpose or role does the ...
Women’s March Fredericton takes a stand for equality
More than 100 participants took to the streets for the 3rd Annual Women’s March in downtown Fredericton on Saturday to ...
Interest rate hike pause, workers’ wages stagnant
The Bank of Canada paused increases to their benchmark interest rate this week, partly because consumption spending and housing investment ...
Fredericton workers and students join day of action for postal workers’ right to strike [video]
More than 85 people gathered at Liberal MP Matt DeCourcey's office in downtown Fredericton to show support for the right of ...
Pay equity in the private sector: an uphill battle with the PC government
The recent pay equity win for rural postal workers has focused attention on the need for comprehensive pay equity legislation ...
Saint John Longshoremen receive historic recognition
They call it the movement of goods, as if the goods moved on and off ships of their own accord. ...