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Local Workers Idle as Foreign Workers Imported to Build Winnipeg Hospital
The Winnipeg Free Press reports: A local union says an Edmonton-based contractor is importing foreign labour to do concrete work on the new $239-million Women’s Hospital while giving local trades the cold shoulder. The Construction & Specialized Workers’ Union Local 1258 charges that Pagnotta Industries Inc., a subcontractor on the government-funded project, has so far hired mainly…
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Bank CEO calls for Canada Pension Plan Expansion
By Lana Payne, President, Newfoundland and Labrador federation of Labour The considerable voices urging the federal and provincial governments to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) in some fashion just got an unlikely ally. A banker. And not just any banker. The president and CEO of CIBC, Gerry McCaughey. He told a pension conference in…
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Tory Senator Hugh Segal slams Tory attempt to silence workers and their unions
Hugh Segal, Conservative Senator and former advisor to Premier Bill Davis and Prime Minister Mulroney, has spoken out in defence of trade union rights and against Bill C-377. Ottawa (20 Feb. 2013) – A highly regarded Conservative Senator, Hugh Segal, spoke out against Bill C-377, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (requirements for…
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U of M Union Members Rally to Save the School from Itself
More than 500 members of six unions that represent workers at the University of Manitoba, and their supporters, rallied outside the U of M’s Administration building at noon on Wednesday February 13t, 2013. They were there to protest the University’s efforts to promote corporatization, privatization, contracting-out, diminished collegial governance and increased workload – efforts they…
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Manitobans prefer protecting services over tax cuts: poll
MGEU President, Michelle Gawronsky, along with several MGEU representatives met this morning with Manitoba Finance Minister Stan Struthers to present recommendations about maintaining strong front-line services, finding savings in the upcoming provincial budget, and identifying revenue sources. As part of the presentation, the MGEU presented recent public polling data that identified protecting public services and…