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The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) – of which the New Brunswick Union is a member – has joined over 190 national and provincial organizations in calling for urgent implementation of universal, public pharmacare.COVID-19 unemployment harms access…

The New Brunswick Union and the government of New Brunswick have agreed to extend the mobility agreement to June 30 for members in Parts I, II and IV.The agreement allows some members to be shifted to other jobs in order…

After three months of daily news about the COVID-19, we are seeing the major impact the pandemic is having, not only on people's lives and work, but also on how they see the country moving forward. Canadians clearly want to…

“The issue of childcare is this generation’s medicare story, and we’ve got to get it done.”This was one of the statements from economist Armine Yalnizyan during a recent interview on CBC’s The Current radio show. The expert was discussing economic…

Disappointed.This is the word Premier Blaine Higgs used in a press conference to describe how he felt about New Brunswickers who hadn’t applied for jobs in agriculture and fish processing plants.The statement is part of a pattern in which the…

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) – of which the New Brunswick Union is a member – sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Canada demanding that residential care facilities across the country be covered under…

The following is an opinion editorial written by Kat Lanteigne, executive director of BloodWatch.org, and Curtis Brandell, president of the B.C. chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society. It originally appeared in the National Post newspaper.In a recent op-ed in the…

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) recently released a report entitled Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in the COVID-19 Crisis.As per the news release of the report, “The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at…

In a submission to the federal government’s consultations on strengthening corporate beneficial ownership transparency in Canada, the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), of which the New Brunswick Union (NBU) is a member, has called for publicly accessible…

Recently there’s been comments that have been less than flattering concerning workers and their return to jobs as restrictions change in the province.Premier Blaine Higgs stated there could be issues with some people not wanting to return to work and…