CRA Employees Back at Work after Tentative Deal
The new deal is a four-year agreement that includes wage increases, more flexible work hours, and new protections against layoffs.
The new deal is a four-year agreement that includes wage increases, more flexible work hours, and new protections against layoffs.
Faculty have been on strike for more than a week demanding higher wages and better treatment.
Employment increased in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador in April, according to Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey.
Ahead of the October strike by health care workers, the New Brunswick Council of Nursing Home Unions (NBCNHU) called on the province to immediately raise wages for long-term care workers by $4 an hour.
The minimum wage went up on April 1st to $12.75 per hour, an increase of a dollar with another one-dollar increase is planned for October of this year.
Nationally, February’s job gains were most notable in the accommodation and food services, and information, culture and recreation industries, according to Statistics Canada.
The Government of Nova Scotia has accepted a series of recommendations that will grow the province’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and guarantee minimum wage rises faster than inflation.
News of a wage increase for CCAs in Nova Scotia came as a shock to the workers’ union, as negotiations for a new collective agreement were scheduled to begin on today.