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College support staff return to work after agreement reached to end strike

After five weeks on the picket lines, a tentative agreement was announced Wednesday that would bring Ontario’s college support staff back to work. The deal, reached between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), which represents more than 10,000 full-time college support workers, and the College Employer Council (CEC), follows a weekend of private talks […]
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Full-time support workers on strike at Northern and Boréal colleges

Support workers at Collège Boréal and Northern College have been on the picket line since midnight Thursday, pressing for stronger job security as negotiations with employers stall. In Timmins and across campuses, classes are still running, but picket lines now stand outside Northern’s Second Avenue office and Collège Boréal’s Thériault Boulevard campus – a visible […]
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What is the temporary foreign workers program? Mark Carney says he won’t be scrapping it

Why the temporary foreign worker program is suddenly at the centre of Canada’s jobs debate When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called this week for the federal government to shut down the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), he framed it as a straightforward argument: Canadian youth are struggling to find work, and employers are hiring temporary […]
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Poilievre calls on Liberals to shut down temporary foreign worker program

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to shut down the temporary foreign worker program, arguing it’s partly responsible for the growing number of young Canadians out of work. Standing in Mississauga with Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner – his party’s immigration critic, who has recently been publicly naming companies […]
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Canadian Hearing Services workers signed three-year agreement earlier this summer

Workers who support the Deaf, Deafblind and hard-of-hearing in Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Matheson and Timmins are back on the job after an 11-week strike. The small team returned to work on July 14, following a new collective agreement that was ratified on July 9. Bobbie-Jean Dacosta, an employment consultant and spokesperson for the group, said […]
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