Today’s release of Janet Patterson’s report “New Directions: Report of the Workers’ Compensation Board Review, 2019” is critically required to protect the historic compromise between workers and employers. This report brings a worker-centric approach to workers’ compensation in British Columbia. It also recommends that the Workers’ Compensation Act be amended to “explicitly acknowledge the duty […]
VANCOUVER – The United Steelworkers union (USW) welcomes the latest decision in Canada’s favour from the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the long-standing U.S. softwood lumber dispute. “Now is the time to settle a dispute that has denied fair access to the U.S. market,” said Jeff Bromley, Chair of the USW Wood Council, representing 14,000 […]
REGINA, VANCOUVER, TORONTO – National and Western Canada leaders of the United Steelworkers union (USW) say news of pending layoffs at Evraz Steel in Regina is the result of the federal government’s failure to commit to use Canadian products in Canadian infrastructure projects. Steelworkers’ jobs at the Regina pipe mill are in jeopardy after it […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) union is denouncing millions of taxpayers’ dollars being provided to private long-term care operators that are in turn paying millions in shareholder dividends, while vulnerable residents and front-line workers remain at risk from COVID-19. “The death toll among seniors in Ontario’s long-term care homes has surpassed 1,800 and necessary […]
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