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September 25, 2026

Governments of Canada and Manitoba Support Workforce Training in Industrial Data Literacy and Applied AI in Aerospace and Manufacturing
Province of Manitoba
The governments of Canada and Manitoba are investing $500,000 in the AeroTrace Workforce Pilot program to train workers on the use of digital traceability, production data and applied artificial intelligence (AI) in the aerospace and manufacturing sectors, federal Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu and Manitoba Business, Mining, Trade and Job Creation Minister Jamie Moses announced today.

‘Anti-worker’ status change for Winnipeg Transit Plus drivers voted down
Winnipeg Free Press
A controversial change of status for Winnipeg Transit Plus drivers, which some feared could leave them with lower pay and fewer benefits, has been rejected.

Unionized workers at Metro produce centre in Laval, Que., ratify new deal
Yahoo
A months-long strike at Metro's Laval, Que., fresh produce distribution centre is coming to an end after workers ratified a new collective agreement.

CUPE will defy Bill C-39’s unconstitutional limits on the right to strike if passed
CUPE
The national executive board of Canada’s largest union, CUPE, has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government’s Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it is passed unamended through Parliament.

Ontario hospital plans to cut hundreds of jobs amid province-directed budget plan
Global News
Hamilton Health Sciences is planning to eliminate more than 400 jobs, a move it is directly tying to provincial marching orders to balance budgets that have seen other hospitals across the province make similar cuts.

Fifteen ER nurses leave Ontario hospital over overcrowding, safety issues, union says
Globe and Mail
More than a dozen emergency room nurses have resigned from a hospital in the Greater Toronto Area over the past two months, owing to unmanageable patient volumes and an unsafe work environment, according to a provincial union.

Labour bill will test limits of Canada’s power to quash strikes: experts
CTV News
Labour experts say the Liberal government’s latest major legislative push will test the limits of Ottawa’s power to intervene in collective bargaining when economic interests are at stake.

The Rising Left Can’t Ignore Labor’s Ongoing Crisis
Jacobin
As the Trump administration stumbles from scandal to scandal and worries over artificial intelligence reach a fever pitch, there seems to be little relief in sight for working-class Americans confronting a stubborn cost-of-living crisis. The failure of both Republicans and Democrats to advance real solutions to the affordability crunch has opened the door to hopeful socialist election victories, including Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in New York last year and several left-wing wins in congressional primaries this summer. Yet organized labor by and large has continued its long retreat, and the prospects of significant national policy change still look remote.

A Union Feud Shouldn’t Sink California’s Billionaire Tax
Jacobin
America’s already threadbare welfare state is on the brink of total collapse. Over the next ten years, national funding for Medicaid, whose benefits 81 million Americans rely upon, will be cut by about $1 trillion. States that expanded Medicaid access under the Affordable Care Act will be hit especially hard. More immediately, in just a few days, on October 1, and again on January 1, various new requirements for Medicaid eligibility will be instituted. This means that receiving and maintaining insurance will suddenly become much more difficult for millions of Americans.

The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It’s Unionizing.
Mother Jones
By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of them—as people kept coming up to congratulate them. When members had already packed up, people were still on the convention floor, talking and trading the pins.

More than 20,000 council staff to be fired and rehired in plan branded 'shockingly deplorable'
SkyNews
More than 20,000 Glasgow City Council staff will be fired then rehired under new contracts after talks to resolve a long-running equal pay dispute between the local body and trade unions broke down.

UK defence industry to offer tens of thousands of job opportunities
MorningStar
Tens of thousands of young Britons will be offered employment and work experience with some of the UK's biggest defence firms as part of an agreement between the government and defence industry.

U of W marks 10 years of Indigenous education requirement
Winnipeg Free Press
The University of Winnipeg is collecting course outlines, historic concerns about systemic racism on campus and related records to mark the 10-year anniversary of mandating Indigenous studies.

Teachers in Ontario’s French school system set to vote on strike mandate
Winnipeg Free Press
Ontario teachers in the French school system are set to vote in November on whether to give their union a strike mandate.

‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
The Guardian
African governments need to shake off the legacy of colonialism and underfunding if their education systems are ever to harness the vast potential of the continent’s young talent, says the public health expert Dr John Nkengasong.

What civil rights enforcement cuts mean for students with disabilities – fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits
The Conversation
Felicita Piñón weighed just 1 pound at birth. She was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy that requires her to use a power wheelchair, and she also has learning and emotional challenges. Yet despite these obstacles, Felicita, now an eighth grade student, is just like any other happy, active teenager who hasn’t let her disability limit her. She also did something remarkable that’s not typical of most teens – in 2025, she testified against a school voucher bill at the Texas Capitol.

Meloni accused of ‘running scared’ with cap on foreign children in classrooms
The Guardian
The Italian government has been accused of ramping up divisive rhetoric to try to court far-right voters ahead of next year’s general election after it passed a decree aimed at capping the number of newly arrived migrants in classrooms and banning the burqa and niqab in schools.

September 24, 2026

Ministers Gather for Cabinet Meeting in Selkirk
Province of Manitoba
The Manitoba government is focusing on the priorities of making life more affordable, strengthening health care and listening directly to Manitobans about the issues that matter most at a cabinet meeting in Selkirk, Premier Wab Kinew announced here today.

Carney says Labour Code change will 'protect' right to strike. Experts say it still spells legal trouble
CBC
The Liberal government is proposing changes that it says will establish a "guardrail" around a controversial portion of the Labour Code — but experts say even if the bill goes through as written, the legal battles will be far from over.

Labour law changes would bring 'sunlight' to collective bargaining: jobs minister
CTV News
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals’ proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed “sunlight” to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors.

NDP leader says Ottawa breaking labour law as Bank of Canada strike nears 100 days
CTV News
NDP Leader Avi Lewis said the federal government is defying its own labour laws after the head of the Bank of Canada admitted to using replacement workers during a strike involving security officers.

Montreal blue-collar workers strike over stalled wage talks
CItyNews
About 50 blue-collar workers were on a one-day strike Wednesday as negotiations over a new collective agreement remain deadlocked, according to union representative Félix Gagnon of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

7,000 union hotel workers in Chicago authorize strike
Hotel Dive
Unite Here Local 1 said employers have “failed to agree to anything close to the wages workers say they need to survive.” Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.

DoorDash Agrees to $131.5 Million Settlement Over Worker Pay
QSR
DoorDash agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle allegations that it underpaid or delayed payments to hundreds of thousands of delivery workers in New York City. 

Amazon laid off more than 30,000 workers — now it wants some of them back. Why ‘boomerang’ hiring is taking off
Yahoo
Getting laid off usually feels like the end of the relationship between a worker and their former employer. But at Amazon [NASDAQ: AMZN] some ex-employees are now getting an unexpected invitation to come back.

Stung by Trump, machinists union campaigns for affordability in midterms
The Guardian
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), one of the largest labor unions in the US, has launched a “workers v billionaires” political campaign tour targeting members in eight battleground states and encouraging them to support pro-worker candidates in the midterms.

How a Labor Union Bested the Political Establishment in New York
The New York Times
As voters headed toward a polling site in New York City in early summer, a campaign volunteer made a last-minute pitch.

Britain's largest trade union to stage a protest outside Labour conference next week over migration curbs... while rail workers also go on strike to pile pressure on Andy Burnham
DailyMail
Britain's largest trade union will stage a protest outside Labour's annual conference in Liverpool next week over the Government's proposed immigration curbs.

Manitoba Government Invests $3.8 Million in First French-Language Technical Vocational Education Culinary Arts Facility Coming to St. Boniface
Province of Manitoba
Design work is beginning on a new French-language culinary arts facility at 170 Marion St. in Winnipeg, creating new opportunities for francophone high school students to pursue hands-on career training in their language and community, Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt and Advanced Education and Training Minister Renée Cable announced today.

Educators wish Manitoba had 'been braver' after keeping opt-out clause in new sex-ed curriculum
CBC
Two educators who laud Manitoba's new sex-ed curriculum also wish the province had been more bold and prevented parents from pulling kids from classes.

Relief, reproach from law school staff after disgraced ex-dean’s arrest in France
Winnipeg Free Press
The overseas arrest of a disgraced former law dean who defrauded the University of Manitoba out of more than $600,000 is being met both with relief and renewed frustration in the local legal community.

MUN Commissions American Association to Address Enrollment Rates
VOCM
Memorial University says it’s developing a strategic plan to address dropping enrollment rates.

‘Research culture’ can shine light on academic privilege
Research Professional News
What exactly is meant by the phrase ‘research culture’?

September 23, 2026

Manitoba promises up to $10K for schools that participate in student fitness challenge
CBC
Get active. Get healthy. Get money. Get a banner.

Post-secondary leaders to discuss cross-campus collaborations
Winnipeg Free Press
The artificial intelligence boom is inducing panic about the makeup of Manitoba’s future workforce and influencing new post-secondary application trends.

Students and rising tuition
Winnipeg Free Press
Students in Manitoba are facing additional costs at a time when many are already struggling with the rising cost of living, despite repeated promises from the provincial government to make life more affordable.

Parents still in charge amid health curriculum overhaul: premier
Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba’s premier pledges to continue allowing parents to pull their kids from health class if content — be it related to human sexuality, substance use or otherwise — clashes with personal beliefs.

Former U of Manitoba law dean arrested in Europe, will be extradited to Canada: police
CBC
Jonathan Black-Branch, the disbarred former dean at the University of Manitoba's law school, has been arrested in Europe and is facing extradition back to Canada.

York University workers want promise AI ‘tutors’ won’t replace jobs
TorontoToday.ca
As artificial intelligence tools continue to shake up academic life at post-secondary institutions worldwide, a group of York University workers are demanding guardrails.

Remove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says
University Affairs
Canada’s research granting agencies should remove all references to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) from the process of awarding federal research funding, the parliamentary committee tasked with studying the question recommends.

Universities belong to us all: a national action to bring public university funding into the election campaign debate
PR Newswire
At noon today, in sixteen institutions across Quebec, members of university communities gather to unfurl the same banner: "Universities belong to us all: Investing in universities is an investment for everyone in Quebec." Coordinated by the Table des partenaires universitaires (TPU), this mobilization--led by unions and student associations--aims to remind everyone that the future of universities does not concern only those who work or study there. It concerns all of Quebec.

Changing Transit Plus drivers’ status a ‘ridiculous anti-worker provision,’ councillor says
Winnipeg Free Press
Some fear a change of status for Winnipeg Transit Plus drivers could allow them to be paid less and receive fewer benefits.

Manitoba Labour board hears closing submissions on Dynacare case
CBC
The Manitoba Labour Board is set to decide whether Dynacare workers should be designated essential after a hearing that interrupted the strike hours after lab workers hit the picket line.

Manitoba teachers' union accused of unfairly pushing out executive because she's running for PCs
CBC
A Progressive Conservative candidate is accusing the Manitoba Teachers' Society of ousting her as an active member of the provincial executive and president of the Sunrise School Division's teachers' association because she joined the Tories.

Business groups applaud the Liberal government’s bill to curb work stoppages and fast-track project approvals
Unpublished
Western business groups applauded the Liberal government’s omnibus bill on Tuesday, which they say will provide the regulatory and labour changes needed to make Canada a competitive place to invest.

Flair flight attendants secure new pay for pre-flight work
CUPE
Flight attendants at Flair Airlines have secured new compensation for work performed before flights, under an agreement reached between Flair Airlines and CUPE 4060. The agreement builds on gains CUPE flight attendants have made at other airline bargaining tables as part of the union’s Unpaid Work Won’t Fly campaign.

Report finds N.S. to be one of the hardest in country to form a union (video)
Global News
Labour advocates in Nova Scotia are calling for legislative changes to make it easier for workers to unionize. A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found Nova Scotia to be one of the hardest places to form a union in the country. Mitchell Bailey reports.

Canada says proposed labour rules will reduce strike interventions. History suggests a more complicated picture
The Conversation
The Canadian government has introduced legislation that would change how labour disputes are handled in federally regulated industries, including proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code that are intended to help unions and employers reach agreements sooner and reduce economic disruptions.

Ottawa to clamp down on labour violations in trucking sector
Globe and Mail
The federal government says it will crack down on labour violations in the trucking industry and devote additional resources to address wage theft and employee misclassification.

The normal retirement age is rising in many developed countries. How long can Canada cling to 65?
Globe and Mail
People around the world are leaving the work force later because governments in most developed countries are raising their normal retirement age.

Revenge of the labor movement: Democrats with union backgrounds aim to retake Congress
The Guardian
The US labor movement is having a banner election year. More than three dozen nominees for open House and Senate races across the US have backgrounds as labor union representatives or members.

DoorDash to Pay $131.5M in Largest NYC Delivery Worker Settlement
The Labour Pulse
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), together with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, announced on Tuesday a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash over allegations the company underpaid or paid late nearly 260,000 food delivery workers, in what officials and labor groups are calling the largest municipal wage-theft settlement of its kind in the United States.

September 22, 2026

'She was a child,' Winnipeg judge says as former teacher gets 9 months for repeatedly messaging teen student
CBC
A Winnipeg Catholic school teacher who sent messages to a teenage student for months, including repeatedly telling her she was beautiful and that he loved her, has been sentenced to nine months in jail.

Portage la Prairie school, daycares locked down after teen stabbed at high school
CBC
A 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital in Winnipeg after Manitoba RCMP say he was stabbed by another teen at a Portage la Prairie school on Monday.

Doug Ford Is Eroding Ontario’s Public Schools
The Maple
Teachers and education workers across Ontario are escalating their campaign for better-funded public schools as a new round of collective bargaining with the Doug Ford government appears stalled.

Major language school ILAC closes abruptly after filing for bankruptcy, stranding hundreds of students
Globe and Mail
When Berta Alonso received an e-mail on Friday from the International Language Academy of Canada telling her the school had filed for bankruptcy and was closing immediately, she figured she had been hacked.

Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities
Nature
The university I lead is more than four centuries old and has seen political orders rise and fall. I have not, but I work each day in an institution that remembers those changes — in its archives, statutes and culture of argument. The conditions that make knowledge trustworthy, such as independent peer review, openness about methods and data and the ability to correct earlier work, are changing in ways that reach the core of what a university is for.

It Takes a Village
University Affairs
After languishing at an unacceptably low level for a full two decades, the average term of a Canadian university president is now the shortest it has ever been—five years or less. By comparison, a Canadian corporate CEO enjoys 10 years or more in office. 

UCLA 9/11 Symposium Sparks Battle Over Academic Freedom
LA Progressive
Yet again one of America’s top-rated universities has shamefully embarrassed itself. This time the university is UCLA, which recently disavowed its own law school’s comprehensive symposium on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The two-day event on September 10 and 11, hosted by UCLA School of Law, was entitled 25 Years After 9/11: Reimagining Freedom, Justice, and Security. It was announced as an opportunity to explore “the legal, political, social, and technological transformations initiated in response to the attacks” that “killed nearly 3,000 people, forever altering the lives of their families, communities, and the nation” and that “continue to profoundly shape law and society.” It was designed to raise “urgent questions about how ‘security’ has been mobilized to justify state violence, exclusion, surveillance, and the erosion of freedom,” and to examine what the future portends for “the rule of law, human rights, and democratic life in an era defined by securitization and permanent emergency.”

Professor Claude? College unions negotiate for protection against AI teachers and evaluators.
Pittsburgh's Public Source
While universities in the region continue to define artificial intelligence’s role on campus, some higher ed unions hope to gain clarity at the bargaining table.  

Federal union to resume contract talks with government
CTV News
Contract talks will resume today between the Treasury Board of Canada and a union representing over 100,000 public servants.

RCMP investigating workplace fatality in southern Manitoba
CBC
A 66-year-old man is dead after he was apparently struck by farming equipment in southern Manitoba on Friday.

'An extremely difficult job': Feds put $1M towards promoting farm safety in Canada
CBC
The federal government is spending more than $1 million to promote health and safety on Canadian farms. 

Ontario to standardize trucker training after audit flagged widespread issues
Globe and Mail
The Ontario government says it will standardize commercial truck driver training in the wake of a scathing Auditor-General report that identified widespread issues with instruction and licensing in the province.

Ottawa tables bill to amend labour code, speed up project approvals
Globe and Mail
The federal government introduced sweeping legislation on Monday aimed at reducing labour disruptions in federally regulated sectors and speeding up development approvals for major projects.

AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union
Labor Notes
When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who reap tens of thousands of dollars from sowing fear and doubt.

Unions Rally Around the Threat of A.I.
New York Times
Tim Suitter knows change is coming to Bath Iron Works, creeping up the adjacent Kennebec River in Maine like a foreboding fog.

Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple On ‘Union Town,’ Her Third Towering Film On American Labor – Camden Film Festival
Deadline
Fifty years ago, a young director named Barbara Kopple came out with her first film, a documentary she thought would be little seen.

September 21, 2026

New Brunswick is weaving AI into its K-12 curriculum, drawing praise — and pushback
CBC
In a Moncton middle school this week, students entered a virtual dungeon, tasked with escaping from the dragon within while learning about cybersecurity.

The province gave SMU $25M to transform health care. Then it quietly killed the plan
CBC
It was March 2023 when Nova Scotia's then-advanced education minister appeared at Saint Mary's University, announcing $25 million in funding for the university to revolutionize the province's health-care system.

Concordia unions join forces to face university at negotiation table
The Link
Six Concordia University unions gathered for a lunchtime rally on Sept. 16 at the Sir George Williams campus to launch a new strategy for negotiations: negotiating with the university collectively instead of individually.

Judge reverses University of Lethbridge cancellation of 2023 Widdowson lecture
Calgary Herald
The University of Lethbridge's cancellation of a 2023 guest lecture by Frances Widdowson in response to widespread objections was "fundamentally and fatally flawed" by failing to consider the speaker's Charter rights, says a Court of King's Bench judge.

OSAP delay sends Ontario college students home on 1st day of school
CBC
Maya Tilley had planned her year around starting a new college program.

UWOFA votes overwhelmingly in favour of strike
The Gazette
Western’s faculty association has voted in favour of taking strike action if necessary, with 91.8 per cent of union members voting yes.

Strike vote planned for 84,000 Ontario elementary teachers
St. Thomas Today
Another major Ontario teachers’ union is preparing for a strike vote.

Younger Canadians most divided on academic freedom protecting political views: poll
National Post
Political advocacy in a post-secondary classroom where it does not relate to the subject matter could become a "threat to academic freedom" if left unchecked, warns Association for Canadian Studies president Jack Jedwab.

Texas Professor Suspended for 16 Months Without Recourse
Inside Higher Ed
For the past 16 months, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley political science professor Clyde Barrow has been barred from his classroom, office and campus.

University facing 'worst crisis since WW2' as staff begin five-week strike
BBC
The University of Dundee is facing the worst financial crisis of any British higher education institution since World War Two, its principal has said as lecturers begin an unprecedented five-week strike.

Eight UK universities already plan to strike over job cuts in the 2026/2027 academic year
The Tab
Eight UK universities have already announced plans to strike in the 2026/2027 academic year – including three Russell Group universities. Here’s an update on which UK universities are striking in autumn 2026.

Government plans to introduce economy bill critics say will threaten right to strike
Winnipeg Free Press
Members of Parliament return from their summer break today, and the government is expected to introduce a wide-ranging bill they say is focused on making the economy more resilient.

Liberals looking to give minister explicit authority to end strikes: sources
CBC
The Liberal government's marquee fall legislation is expected to strengthen a controversial section of the Labour Code, two senior government sources tell CBC News. 

Closing Canada’s menopause gap
Globe and Mail
Aimee Debow was giving a major presentation about a multibillion-dollar telecom merger to her executive team when words suddenly failed her.

September 18, 2026

Some Manitoba plumbing apprentices waiting over a year to get into required college course
CBC
The excitement Nelson Elliott expected to feel at finishing his last college course to become a journeyman plumber, after years working as an apprentice, has been overshadowed with frustration over how long the process took.

Fiddling and a jig mark ceremony to rename Wolseley-area school
Winnipeg Free Press
Beckoned by a fiddle, students broke out into a jig behind Little Bluestem School on Thursday evening to mark the end of a multi-year renaming process.

‘A new future’: city dentist Cholakis donates $2M to school of dental hygiene
Winnipeg Free Press
Dental hygienist training in Manitoba is getting a big boost, after a major gift from a local dentist.

School division working to resolve Wi-Fi capacity issue
CTV News
The Louis Riel School Division is working to get all students at a St. Vital high school back online after a Wi-Fi issue has left some unable to complete assignments or access course material.

Nearly 8,000 Brandon students to benefit from free transit program this fall
Discover Westman
The Manitoba government is investing more than $1 million to provide free transit for youth in Brandon, Municipal and Northern Relations Minister Glen Simard and Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt announced here today.

Ontario students return to school amid new rules, expired teacher contracts
CTV News
Ontario students are back inside classrooms with new requirements around exams, financial literacy and classroom supplies, but a local teachers’ union says the province’s back-to-school messaging is distracting from financial and labour concerns facing public education.

17-day countdown looms for potential strike or lockout at Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo Region Record
Unionized support staff at Wilfrid Laurier University are edging closer to a strike or lockout, possibly in October, as bargaining continues for a new collective agreement.

Rethinking how we assess students could improve their well‑being
The Conversation
When you were in school, what stressed you out the most? For many students, classroom assessments — graded tests, quizzes, group work, presentations, labs and the like — would be near the top of the list.

Tuition fees for degree programs, 2026/2027
Statistics Canada
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing data from the Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs Survey. This release includes information on tuition and compulsory fees for undergraduate and graduate degree programs by field of study and student status in Canada. Data are available at the national, provincial and territorial levels.

Elementary teachers’ union says it will hold strike vote in November as contract talks stall
CP24
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario is the second of the province’s four major teachers’ unions to announce strike vote dates for November.

Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Post-secondary education
CCPA
Canada’s public colleges and universities are among the country’s most important economic and social drivers. Recent analysis found that post-secondary education institutions contributed approximately $61 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2025—more than sectors such as oil sands extraction, mining, or transportation manufacturing—and directly employed nearly 488,000 people across the country.¹

Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract
Labor Notes
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant.

Starbucks workers in Hamilton hope to tackle wage, customer harassment issues in negotiating 1st contract
CBC
A group of downtown Hamilton Starbucks workers has unionized in an attempt to address issues including harassment by customers and an unclear wage structure, the United Steelworkers union (USW) says.

New Brunswick mill laying off hundreds of workers, union says
Global News
The union representing workers at a rural New Brunswick mill says hundreds of its members will be laid off in November.

Strike action on the table if Stellantis sticks to plan to sell Brampton plant: union
Global News
The union representing more than 9,000 Stellantis workers in Canada says a strike is a “real possibility” after talks with the automaker broke down over its intent to sell an assembly plant in Brampton, Ont.

Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
The Guardian
Workers at an AutoZone in White Plains, New York, are seeking to become the first store at the US’s largest auto parts retailer to win a union election, set to begin 25 September, despite a heavy-handed union opposition campaign from the company.

Climate change widens labor inequality: when it is necessary to choose between health and salary
Democrata
Health or income? It is the complicated dilemma faced by the less wealthy workers –whose salary is directly linked to performance– when the heat scorches, but resting means not getting paid. They represent the labor tier in which the relationship between climate change and employment is most clearly shown. From that peak, the consequences follow.