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Report: Machines to handle over half workplace tasks by 2025
Geneva, Switzerland — More than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025, organizers of the Davos economic forum said in a report released Monday that highlights the speed with which the labour market will…
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Labour shortage is the ‘new norm’ that will last a decade: BDC economist says
Toronto, ON — Canada’s small and mid-sized companies must find ways to adapt to a “new norm” of worker shortages that will likely persist for a decade, says Pierre Cleroux, chief economist for the Business Development Bank of Canada. “They…
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Feds discuss flex labour arrangements with provinces, territories
OTTAWA, Ont.– The Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, met with provincial and territorial labour ministers via videoconference Friday to follow up on her commitment to strengthen partnerships between federal, provincial and territorial governments. The ministers talked…
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Unifor denounces announced CP job cuts
TORONTO, Ont.–Unifor, the union representing nearly 1,500 rail workers at Class 1, VIA Rail and regional railways, announced that it is extremely disappointed in an announcement that Canadian Pacific Railway will be reducing its workforce by approximately 1,000 employees in the next six…
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Update on CTAO Trucker action in Ontario
TORONTO, Ont.–In a CIFFA bulletin issued September 16, the association provided an update on strike action by the Container Truckers Association of Ontario. “Negotiations resumed Tuesday Sept. 15 with members of the CTAO. We have reports that a resolution was reached…
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Retailers and shippers welcome introduction of PORTS Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The National Retail Federation has welcomed U.S. federal legislation that would amend the federal Taft-Hartley Act to allow governors to intervene in port labour disputes rather than being required to ask the White House to do so. “The nation’s ports…
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Retailers welcome ratification of port contract
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The National Retail Federation issued the following statement May 22 from Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold on news that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ratified a five-year labour contract with the Pacific Maritime Association covering dockworkers at…