On the site you will find that negotiations are underway to seek renewal of the collective agreement between the University of Manitoba and the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA).

Negotiations with Unifor 3007 concluded in October 2024, and with CUPE 3909 in November 2024.

UM employees are represented by six unions, each at different stages of contracts. This website gathers all the important milestone and progress reports into one user-friendly portal that also provides employees with resources such as definitions of common bargaining terms and overviews of collective bargaining processes.  

Visit the Labour Relations site now.

“(This law) in practice removes the right of any worker to choose whether to join a strike or cross a picket line,” he said.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to the Winnipeg Free Press.

The month-long impasse between the Canada Industrial Relations Board and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers ended after federal Labour Minister Stephen MacKinnon directed the board Friday to order the 55,000 picketing employees back to work.

A five per cent wage increase was agreed upon, and it will be implemented retroactive to the day after the collective agreements expired.

Following a month of striking, Canada Post workers will be back on their delivery routes across the country starting tomorrow. Dr. Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor of Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba. He shared his reaction to the news with Up To Speed host Faith Fundal.

To listen to the full conversation follow the link to CBC Manitoba: Up to Speed. 

In this piece you will hear from Assistant Professor of Labour Studies, Adam DK. King talking about what people make in the private sector.

Alex Karpa breaks down the annual Sunshine list to see where taxpayer money is going, beginning with Manitoba.

To watch this news piece, please visit CTV National.

Some of that was true. But not everywhere, and it wasn’t the whole story. And also, however tight the labour market was, it isn’t anymore. Beyond the top-line unemployment number, there were always signs that workers weren’t actually benefitting all that much from how in-demand they were. 

Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in the labour studies program at the University of Manitoba. He wrote a piece on unemployment in The Maple. “It’s probably worse news than we are recognizing because [the unemployment rate is] not counting all these other people that are negatively affected. Another thing to keep in mind too is that anytime you see unemployment officially rise, there are segments of the labor force that suffer first and worst. Those tend to be racialized workers, those tend to be new immigrants, new Canadians,” said King.

To listen to this podcast, please visit CityNews.

To listen to the full interview, please visit CBC Manitoba. 

“Even when they win some of these cases, it’s often not challenging the actual sexism and gender inequality,” said Smith, assistant professor of labour studies at the University of Manitoba.

“There was kind of an accepted view that it was men’s prerogative on the plane — in particular men travelling alone — to ogle and to leer and to look at the stewardesses’ legs,” said Sangster, professor emeritus at Trent University specializing in labour history.

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University of Manitoba  labour relations assistant professor Adam King spoke about the decision of the Crown corporation to hire replacement workers.

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