Service Employees International Union

• Saskatoon nurses push for safer parking for hospital staff after reports of assault

  After nurses in Saskatchewan have been subject to harassment and threats, a petition has garnered more than 700 signatures supporting safe parking initiatives. 

  Health

  Feb 1, 2023
  
• Health-care unions call for worker wage bump, better access to PPE in new Ontario campaign

  The unions say the campaign will launch on Monday in workplaces across the province ahead of the Ontario budget, which is expected to be delivered later this month.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2021
  
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• Smiling Goat owner sues former employees and union, seeks over $600,000 in damages

  Court documents make the claim that Smiling Goat's former employees and their union"unlawfully conspired" to defame the owner and hurt the business's economic prospects.

  Canada

  Jul 3, 2018
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• Halifax café with queer community space coming from former Smiling Goat baristas

  "[We're] sort of taking back the space and making it our own," said one of the managers of the nascent café.

  News

  Jun 23, 2018
• Union says black janitors were fired after revealing human rights complaint

  Unionized workers of African descent who clean Founders Square and say they were notified of their termination last Friday - a week before layoffs were to take effect - and the day they took their complaints public.

  Canada

  Mar 26, 2018
• Black janitors in Halifax allege racial discrimination, plan to file human rights complaint

  The group of seven janitors say one white cleaner will keep their job under the new cleaning contract, while the black workers are all set to lose their jobs at the end of the month.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2018