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International Workers’ Day: Workers Need Proper Supports
Every year, on May 1st, workers around the world honour and are inspired by the activism and the collective power of workers that won an eight-hour workday. It is a day of solidarity and a day to recommit working towards improving the lives of workers. As restrictive...
2022 Day of Mourning: 3rd Anniversary of Start of Pandemic and 30th Anniversary of Westray Mine Disaster
This year April 28th marks the third Day of Mourning since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each year, on the Day of Mourning, people come together to “Mourn the Dead and Fight for the Living.” The pandemic has shown us the importance of legislative measures to...
(Revised) 2022 Day of Mourning Events
Bathurst & District Labour CouncilApril 28th at 12:15 p.m.Near Sacred Heart Cathedral, Douglas Avenue BathurstContact: John Gagnon at (506) 454-0651 / gagnonnjohn@yahoo.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Bathurstlabour/ Edmundston & District Labour CouncilApril 28th...
2022 Blair Doucet Youth Summer Camp Cancelled due to Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic
The New Brunswick Federation of Labour (NBFL) has decided to cancel the 2022 edition of the Blair Doucet Youth Summer Camp. This decision was not an easy one. With an ongoing pandemic, over 100 people in hospital and over 4,000 active covid-19 cases in the province,...
Provincial Budget: Missed Opportunity to Adequately Invest in New Brunswickers
The New Brunswick Federation of Labour is calling the 2022-2023 New Brunswick Budget a missed opportunity to adequately invest in public services and programs that would improve the lives of New Brunswickers. “The ongoing pandemic has exposed several gaps in the...
‘Conservative premiers will bring in American-style health care if we don’t stop them,’ say Canada’s Federations of Labour
The presidents of provincial labour federations are putting pressure on the federal government to step up their contributions to public health care and protect Canada’s public system from Conservative right-wing provincial privatization schemes. Through letters to...
Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau: Increasing Investment in Public Health Care
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, I am writing to call on your government to address the severe and urgent need for additional investment in public health care. The New Brunswick Federation of Labour represents more than 38,000 workers, in every sector of the economy,...
NBFL’s Message for IWD: Caregiving is Foundation of our Economy
This year on International Women’s Day, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour wants to take a moment to recognize that care work is the foundation of our economy. Care work, both paid and unpaid, is what makes all other forms of work possible. We all need care at...
Submission to New Brunswick pre-budget consultation
Here is the brief submitted by the New Brunswick Federation of Labour to the Department of Finance as part of the New Brunswick pre-budget consultations for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.