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WORKERS VOTE – NL ELECTION 2025

Welcome to the labour movement’s election hub!  The 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election presents a critical opportunity to advance workers’ rights and build a fairer and more just province for all – where no one gets left behind.    This microsite serves as a worker-centered resource for election information from a labour perspective, including party positions on key issues, voting…

Heat Stress

Heat exposure is a life-threatening, occupational illness with both short and long-term effects. Heat illness is serious and gets worse quickly. It affects thousands of workers in Canada every year. FILL OUT OUR ANONYMOUS ONLINE SURVEY (takes about 1 minute): CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY or Scan the QR Code Below Workers in all sectors need legislation for heat limits in…

Buy Local. Buy Union.

Buying local and union-made products, goods, and services helps support workers, our communities, our province, and our economy. It’s about standing with workers fighting for fair wages, safer conditions, and dignity on the job.  When you buy union, you’re helping to build a stronger economy. Look for the NL/Canada/Union label and put your dollars to work for worker justice!  Below…

Newfoundland and Labrador Workers Need Card-Check Certification!

Having a union and a clear collective agreement improves health and safety, strengthens employee morale, reduces employee turnover and provides stability and predictability for workers that benefits them and the economy. It’s time for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to make it easier for workers to join a union by implementing card-check certification. Card-check, or single-step, certification simply means…

Make Life Affordable

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are faced with an affordability crisis that leaves many people struggling to get by. While the rich get richer, workers are being priced out of even the most basic necessities. Working people should be able to thrive, not just survive. It’s time for our government to step up and offer a plan to tackle inflation, ban price…

Gig Workers: Tell us your story

Gig and app-based employers don’t provide their workers with basic employment rights — like minimum wage protection, paid sick leave, health and safety protections and more. What’s it like for you? Ever have to go to work sick because you couldn’t afford to stay home? Have you done the math some weeks and figured out you didn’t even make minimum…

Demand Better for Gig Workers

Most ride-hail and food delivery workers are left out of essential workplace protections, including compensation for injuries on the job and sick days. The app companies they work for are exploiting loopholes and don’t pay their full share into the programs Newfoundlanders and Labradorians rely on, like workers’ compensation, the health care system, employment insurance and the Canada Pension Plan.…