Macleans.ca » labour unions http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Republicans hit unions where it hurts http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/15/hitting-them-where-it-hurts/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/15/hitting-them-where-it-hurts/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:11:01 +0000 Jaime Weinman http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=335073 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/15/hitting-them-where-it-hurts/feed/ 0 Right-to-work laws target the same labour unions that helped fund Obama's victory Hard times coming for labour relations http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/20/hard-times-coming-for-canadian-labour-relations/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/20/hard-times-coming-for-canadian-labour-relations/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:33:19 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=329858 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/20/hard-times-coming-for-canadian-labour-relations/feed/ 0 Unions face mounting challenges as employers feel the pinch in a tough economy Mich. lawmakers push right-to-work legislation; police pepper-spray protesters inside Capitol http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/06/mich-lawmakers-push-right-to-work-legislation-police-pepper-spray-protesters-inside-capitol/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/06/mich-lawmakers-push-right-to-work-legislation-police-pepper-spray-protesters-inside-capitol/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:56:32 +0000 The Associated Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324846 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/06/mich-lawmakers-push-right-to-work-legislation-police-pepper-spray-protesters-inside-capitol/feed/ 0 LANSING, Mich. – Republicans rushed right-to-work legislation Thursday in the Michigan Legislature, drawing raucous... Unions due for a fight with Bill C-377 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/04/due-for-a-fight/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/04/due-for-a-fight/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:00:01 +0000 John Geddes http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=310253 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/04/due-for-a-fight/feed/ 0 Private member’s bills typically go nowhere, but one that would force unions to disclose how they spend money appears to have support Norway’s oil discovery means more money, more problems http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/20/more-money-more-problems-2/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/20/more-money-more-problems-2/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:40:01 +0000 Tamsin McMahon http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=292663 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/20/more-money-more-problems-2/feed/ 0 Their offshore oil industry is gushing with good fortune. So why is everyone unhappy? The strange labour war at a Quebec chicken shack http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/23/a-game-of-chicken/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/23/a-game-of-chicken/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:40:01 +0000 Alex Ballingall http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=239997 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/23/a-game-of-chicken/feed/ 0 Why a small, family-run Quebec restaurant shut down during a bitter fight with its union—for three years The Devils, hell, and the NHL http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/10/the-devils-hell-and-the-nhl/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/10/the-devils-hell-and-the-nhl/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:08:39 +0000 Colby Cosh http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=141974 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/10/the-devils-hell-and-the-nhl/feed/ 0 "It is no longer clear exactly which frontloaded contracts are kosher and which are treyf"