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Alberta privacy legislation barring union from publishing photos of picketline crossers violates right to freedom of expression, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act violated a union's right to freedom of expression protected under s.2(b) of... More




Federal government bargained in bad faith in seeking to set unfair conditions for binding arbitration in dispute with foreign service officers' union, labour board rules

The Public Service Labour Relations Board declared that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper breached its obligation under the Public Service Labour Relations... More




Arbitration protected by Charter, appeal court rules, but union challenge to government rollback of arbitrated increase rejected

The British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld a lower court judge's decision that the federal government did not infringe the freedom of association guarantee in... More