WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to make it easier for workers to unionize, and to ban the use of replacement workers during labour disputes.
The NDP government tried to introduce the bills, along with several others, in the legislature but the Opposition Progressive Conservatives used procedural tactics to stall the bills. If the Tories continue to stall proceedings until Tuesday evening, the bills will likely not be passed into law until after the summer break under the legislature's rules.Another bill would end a requirement for secret-ballot voting for workers to unionize, and instead allow unionization if a majority of workers at a location sign a union card.
Labour leaders applauded the moves, but some business groups have said the bills will tilt the playing field too much to labour's advantage. -- Two- and five-year Treasury yields climbed to the highest levels this year as swaps traders and economists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecast fewer Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
Donald Trump's efforts to secure a bond to cover a $454 million judgment in a New York civil fraud case has been rejected by 30 surety companies, his lawyers said on Monday, inching him closer to the possibility of having his properties seized. The former president must either pay the sum out of his own pocket or post a bond to stave off the state's seizure while he appeals Justice Arthur Engoron's Feb.
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