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Strikes Shut Campuses and Schools as MPs Probe Trucking Model

Escalating labour disputes reflect fights over job security, costs, worker status.

Manitoba Legislative building in November, 2023. The government says training is the way forward, but without oversight and enforcement, critics warn it’s just another press release.
The Moncton Fire Department is investigating the cause of a fire that resulted in two people being rescued and two firefighters being treated for minor injuries Wednesday morning.
The Moncton Fire Department is investigating the cause of a fire that resulted in two people being rescued and two firefighters being treated for minor injuries Wednesday morning.
Firefighters survey the damage from the Irishtown fire near Moncton that burned 45 hectares in early August.

Overview

  • Conestoga College closed its Doon campus to in-person classes and vehicle traffic due to large-scale OPSEU picketing tied to the support-staff strike that began Sept. 11.
  • OPSEU cites job security as the central issue and points to widespread layoffs, while the College Employer Council says the union set ultimatums and pegs the cost of demands above $900 million, a figure the union disputes.
  • Alberta’s teachers strike entered Day 3 with roughly 2,500 schools closed and about 740,000 students affected after educators rejected a provincial offer that included a 12% raise over four years and 3,000 new hires.
  • The province’s bargaining committee said teachers will be locked out starting Thursday, and the CFL’s Edmonton Elks filled 125 free camp slots for sidelined high school players with about 90 more on a waitlist.
  • Federal MPs opened a multi-meeting study into the trucking sector’s 'Driver Inc.' model, with industry witnesses describing it as deliberate misclassification and the committee expected to call the transport minister and labour and revenue officials to testify.