“We do the same work – why aren’t we being paid the same”: Food service workers at Nipissing and Canadore College overwhelmingly vote in favour of a strike

Social Services, Solidarity

(NORTH BAY, ON) – Minimum wage food service workers at North Bay’s Nipissing and Canadore College, members of CUPE Local 1165 Unit 7, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike after seeing no movement on the issue of wage parity, said the union. “The contractor, Compass, pays food service workers at both Laurentian University and…

“Greedy and hypocritical”: Company owned by a pension plan is taking away its own workers’ pension plan

Health Care, OMERS, Pensions

TORONTO – DynaLIFE Labs, a company contracted by the Alberta government to privatize health care services, is trying to take away a pension plan from its employees. The twist? DynaLIFE’s majority shareholder is the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), a pension plan serving over half a million Canadians. In 2022, Alberta’s UCP government awarded…