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Workers at Canada's only unionized Wal-Mart, in Weyburn Sask., have voted 51-5 to decertify their union. More...

An independent panel named by Ontario's Natural Resources Ministry to investigate the province's use of Agent Orange has concluded workers with three government agencies were exposed to unsafe levels of the herbicide. More...

The federal government is revealing details of changes to the temporary foreign workers program today that will require employers to pay a fee for a permit to hire workers from outside Canada and to do more to find Canadian workers in the first place. More...

The head of the Royal Bank of Canada said the company should have been "more sensitive" to workers affected by their outsourcing arrangements and is promising "comparable job opportunities" within the bank, just days after a CBC News report on Canadians losing jobs to workers outside the...

The head of the Royal Bank of Canada has denied that it has replaced Canadian workers wtih foreign workers. More...

As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a...

- Forty-eight workers for the Southern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will split a Powerball jackpot of $172.7 million, lottery officials said Thursday. The workers, mostly from SEPTA's marketing department at the Market Street headquarters in Philadelphia, will each collect $3.6 million...

A 29-year-old Alberta man is facing 14 criminal charges in the deaths of four Filipino workers on Highway 2 north of Calgary late Sunday. More...

More than 300 daycares across Quebec will close Friday while workers stage a one-day protest over wages and benefits. More...

Mourners set up a memorial at a crash site near Stratford, Ont., in memory of 10 migrant workers killed Monday in what is thought to be the worst road accident in the province's history. More...

Mark's Work Wearhouse has pulled Caterpillar-brand boots off the shelves of its London, Ont.,-area stores in support of hundreds of local Electro-Motive workers who are losing their jobs. More...

Workers in London, Ont., say they'll continue to picket even though the Electro-Motive Diesel plant is now officially closed, as the head of the Canadian Auto Workers calls for a public inquiry into the closure. More...

The chief of the Canadian Auto Workers union urges American heavy-equipment giant Caterpillar to end the lockout at its locomotive plant in London, Ont., as hundreds of workers rally in the city. More...

Electro-Motive Diesel, which makes diesel-electric locomotives and engines in London, Ont., locks out almost 500 unionized workers after they fail to take a 50 per cent cut in wages and benefits. More...

Rio Tinto Alcan has locked out workers at its smelter in Alma, Que. after last-ditch contract talks collapsed and the union's contract expired at midnight. More...

Three Mexican migrant farm workers have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government and their Ontario-based former employer for terminating their contract and sending them home without reason or explanation. More...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of workers in a pay equity case involving women at Canada Post that was originally filed 28 years ago. More...

The head of the missing women inquiry says sex workers will not be named if they testify at the hearings examining the Robert Pickton case. More...

AP - Three people remained unaccounted for and two others were hospitalized in critical condition Sunday following an explosion at a grain elevator in northeast Kansas that killed three workers, authorities said. More...

A proposal to force employers to use the federal E-Verify system to vet new and current workers has stoked widespread privacy concerns. More...