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Supreme Court Rules That MTS Employees Really Do Own Their Pension Funds
In 1997, when Gary Filmon and his Conservative cronies sold off the publicly owned Manitoba Telephone System at firesale prices, the new private company decided it should keep more than $43 million of pension fund money that was rightfully owned by its employees. In the push and shove of the subsequent he-said-she-said argument, the company…
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Pension Plan Benefits Plus a Lottery Win Seems to Be de Rigueur
As Canada’s workplace based pension plans continue their slide into irrelevance, more and more Canadians are relying on income from public pension plans such as CPP/QPP and Old Age Security to make ends meet. Many workplace pension plans exist today because unions and their members bargained hard (and went on lengthy strikes) to win them.…
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How Walmart Keeps Unions Out
How does Walmart stay a non-union shop? The trade union movement says the company threatens their workers with plant closures and Walmart says the “workers paradise” they rule over is so great, their “associates” don’t want a union representing them. Jason Easley, writing in the progressive publication “Politicus USA” pops that myth, complete with Walmart…
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Our Railways Are Sick and Need Urgent Care
Our railways are sick and dangerous to the communities they pass through. Â They came to this by way of short-sighted policy decisions in Ottawa and mismanagement in the corporate board rooms. Â Greg Gormick, a transportation writer and author of the report Revitalizing New Brunswick’s Rail sector makes his case in an op-ed carried in the…
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Unionization Linked to Prosperity, Studies Find
The Free Press has an op-ed piece in it, penned by Jerry Diaz, President of UNIFOR, the new union formed by the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers union and the Communications Energy and Paperworkers union. In it, Brother Diaz makes the case by quoting the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and outlines the…