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Keeping H&S a Priority in Changing Times
More than 150 Manitoba Federation of Labour affiliated delegates and facilitators participated in the 29th Annual MFL Health and Safety Conference in Winnipeg. They spent two days focusing on this year’s theme, ‘Health and Safety – In the Path of Change.’ The global economy and the series of crises that have plagued it since 2008, have changed…
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Special Events Mark the Day of Mourning
April 28th of Each Year is the Day of Mourning, a day set aside by the labour movement and the Government of Canada to honour workers who have killed, injured or sickened in the workplace. It is a day of mourning across Canada and in many other countries of the world as well. The ongoing…
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Eugene Kostyra Received Stanley Knowles Labour Solidarity Award
The Stanley Knowles Solidarity Award is presented at each Convention of the Manitoba New Democratic Party to a trade unionist who has shown a deep commitment to working people and the achievement of social justice through recognized contributions to the union movement and the Manitoba New Democratic Party. Stanley Knowles epitomized the special relationship between…
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Judy Wasylycia-Leis Leaving Federal Politics
NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis (left) announced on April 27 that she’s leaving federal politics and will be resigning the seat she has held for Winnipeg North since 1997. Her resignation is effective as of May 1, 2010. “I am very proud to have served my constituents for 13 years and thankful for the confidence they…
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CLC Day of Mourning Statement
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Nova Scotia Westray mine disaster, where an underground methane explosion took the lives of 26 workers. Since then, the labour movement worked for parliament to pass legislation, the so-called Westray bill, which amended the Criminal Code of Canada in order to hold employers, who failed to take steps…