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Christian Labour Association of Canada v Caressant Care Nursing & Retirement Homes (" Caressant") An Ontario arbitrator recently dismissed a grievance challenging a policy which required all staff of a retirement home to undergo COVID-19 testing every two weeks. The retirement home provides care and services to residents who can live independently with minimal to moderate support. The COVID-19 Testing Policy All employees were required to be tested for COVID-19 every two weeks by nasal swab. St...

Youre saying teachers union position on tenure is not correct and it actually misses whats in the best interest of students. they dont collide there. can you explain that? >> there are so many issues in which teachers unions and parents and liberals are in the same agenda. certainly school funding, decent salaries for children and teachers and class size. these are issues in which i think indisputably does both the teacher interest and public interest and parent interest and student interest. bu...

Neighborhood is closed. nbcs nick bog ert is live in chicago. nick, this has an impact on the approval rating of ron emmanuel, who is at the center of this. >> yeah, a poll shows 41% of people in chicago that she polled support the teachers union position on this, holding 19% back from the mayor. this is something being watched by the "politico"s at this point, the head of the teacherers union said they need a new mayor and hinted at throwing her name in the hat herself. there are 330 schools or...

Commerce with a huge summit today off private enterprise so the battle lines are clearly drawn. president obama is pulling in all the support he can get from his base because hes in trouble in november. >> well, it shouldnt surprise anybody that he would be pro, pro, pro union because the guy who is his political director is the fellow by the name of patrick gaspar that used to be with the sciu, that big employees union. what was it? service employees international union. thank you, sir. in 2008...

Anti-immigrant and anti-european union position. reporter: polls wont be closing across the country here in france for another two hours. but we are getting indications of how the french are voting in this crucial presidential election. belgium and swift media citing a variety of polls are indicating the 39-year-old centrist emmanuel macron is in the lead against rival marine le pen. our own election source inside france say the voting is going in the same direction. if this is accurate, the fre...