LabourStart Canada

CANADA: Amazon workers win million dollars in back wages rabble.ca/podcast/amazon…

📣 Wage Theft Panel – March 26 Join us next week for The Fight to Stop Wage Theft, a virtual panel in collaboration with @BrockLabour as part of the Labour Fair at George Brown Polytechnic. The conversation will explore the current state of unfair pay practices, why employers get away with them and how workers are fighting back. Tune in to learn more about how you can be a part of the movement to #StopWageTheft! 🗓️ Thursday, March 26, 2026 ⏰ 6:00PM - 8:00PM ET 📍Online via Zoom 🔗 Register now: workersactioncentre.org/event/labour_f… #WageTheft #Justice4Workers #DecentWork #WorkersRights #canlab #Canada

LEBANON / ISRAEL: Journalist killed in Israeli air strike in Beirut ifj.org/media-centre/n…

CANADA: No More Waiting: Canada’s Unions Demand Action to Modernize the Employment Equity Act canadianlabour.ca/no-more-waitin…

Today’s news story from @kim_siever Edmonton care workers file for unionization albertaworker.ca/news/edmonton-…

The BC Building Trades has launched a campaign to protect Community Benefit and Project Labour Agreements to ensure major public projects are built by local, skilled workers from British Columbia. #petition" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">protectbcjobs.ca/?link_id=0&can…

Treasury Board continues to stall negotiations with our TC bargaining team while tabling concessions that would reduce compensation and weaken protections. We won’t move backwards. Stand with your bargaining team. Learn more: psacunion.ca/tc-bargaining-…

Want to work for a Union? Click here for our global jobs page: labourstart.org/jobs/

The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS! The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!

CANADA: Injury and deaths being investigated in privatized paid plasma centres cupe.ca/injury-and-dea…

Unifor is sounding the alarm after Boart Longyear, a global mining services company with operations in Canada since the 1930s, told workers it will close its Mississauga manufacturing facility and move operations to China, eliminating 40 unionized jobs. unifor.org/news/all-news/…

Want to work for a Union? Click here for our global jobs page: labourstart.org/jobs/

Just 15 more days to go - order your ‘Workers’ Rights are Human Rights’ t-shirts today! (And help support LabourStart too.) customink.com/fundraising/ma…

A new Photo of the Week just went up: Last June the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain organized a protest by cleaners, security and catering staff against outsourcing and exploitative working conditions at University College London. (Photo: Judy via Flickr)

The global union movement's photo album. Post your photos here: flickr.com/groups/union/p…

CANADA: Winnipeg residents want to ditch American firms, poll says cupe.ca/winnipeg-resid…

CANADA: Honouring the legacy of Leo W. Gerard usw.ca/honouring-the-…

Want to work for a Union? Click here for our global jobs page: labourstart.org/jobs/

After just one week, 3,205 trade unionists from around the world have supported our online campaign. We need many more to free our brother Ali. Please sign up and share this in your union - thank you! bit.ly/free-ali-mamme…

CANADA: Unions form coalition to urge mayor, province to act on downtown safety concerns cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…