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National Summit on Pensions Needed
– By Ken Georgetti, President Canadian Labour Congress Canada’s finance ministers will meet in Whitehorse in mid-December to talk about pensions. The Canadian Labour Congress and its 3.2 million members welcome this development, but the retirement security crisis is too important to be solved by a few people meeting behind closed doors. Last summer, we at…
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MFL Urges Governments To Ignore CFIB Workers Compensation Report
Rejects report giving higher scores for providing lower benefits to injured workers. Governments across Canada should ignore the latest report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) on workers compensation, said Kevin Rebeck, President of the Manitoba Federation of Labour. “The whole point of workers compensation is to provide adequate benefits for injured workers,”…
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New Faces on Executive Council
As of December 8, there are number of news faces around the Manitoba Federation of Labour Executive Council table. The meeting held that day was retired United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 President Robert Ziegler’s last meeting as the now-retired MFL Treasurer. His colleagues of many years and the new Executive Council members gave…
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Large Turnout for Day of Remembrance Event
Nearly 200 community and labour activists turned out to mark the Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) December 6 Day of Mourning ceremony at the Union Centre in Winnipeg. The day marks the anniversary of the tragedy that occurred on that day in 1989 when a madman opened fire on students at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, killing…
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Prairie Labour Groups Defend Wheat Board as Parliament Votes
The leading labour groups from the Prairie provinces on November 28 united in calling on the Harper government to abandon its illegal and undemocratic plan to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). “The Bill before Canada’s MPs right now has nothing to do about market freedom for farmers – it’s all about freedom for the…