Opinion Editorials

Ken Georgetti on Old Age Security

Ken Georgetti's letter on Prime Minister Harper's announcement to change Old Age Security as published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 28, 2012 Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits is the worst … Read More

Canada can’t afford corporate tax bonanza

As published in the Toronto Star, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Big businesses in Canada will be popping the champagne corks to celebrate Corporate Tax Freedom Day on Feb. 1. A new research study by the Canadian Labour Congress shows that by that date, becau… Read More

British Columbia needs CPP reform

(Published in the Victoria Times Colonist, December 13, 2011) Canada’s federal and provincial finance ministers, including British Columbia’s Kevin Falcon, will meet in Victoria later this month. They must know that Canada is approaching a retirement i… Read More

Financial literacy no protection against industry rip offs

November is Financial Literacy month. Celebrities aren’t yet growing moustaches to raise awareness about the issue but stay tuned because this may be coming soon, if the time and money devoted to the cause is any indication. A Task Force on Financial Lite… Read More

Letter to the Globe and Mail: Gwyn Morgan doesn't get it

Sent to The Globe and Mail November 28, 2011 Gwyn Morgan uses his column to dump simultaneously on young Occupy protesters and on the labour movement (A history lesson for Occupy protesters). He says there is really no inequality in Canada to criticize. Tr… Read More

Unions are key to fighting inequity: CLC President writes to the Toronto Star

(As published on thestar.com, Wednesday, November 16, 2011) The people who have been occupying financial districts in Canadian and American cities are motivated by anger over the glaring economic unfairness that exists in our society. The labour movement w… Read More

Georgetti strikes back at Fraser Institute, National Post

To the Editor National Post Is the National Post loading the dice in favour of the Fraser Institute in an exchange arising from their attacks on the labour movement (Who finances Fraser’s anti-union agenda)? Last week you carried an opinion piece from t… Read More

Georgetti challenges the Fraser Institute to come clean on who finances their anti‑union agenda

The Editor National Post The Fraser Institute attacks trade unions for an alleged lack of transparency in how we disclose financial information (Open union books). How would they know? We will gladly compare our transparency with theirs any day of the wee… Read More

Georgetti challenges Globe and Mail editorial about Colombia’s human rights

The Globe and Mail newspaper carried an editorial on September 22 praising the human rights record of Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. The editorial contains no evidence to back up its praise of the former defence minister who became president. CL… Read More

Canada Pension Plan protects workers against market meltdown

by Ken Georgetti Just when you thought the 2008 global financial crisis was an ugly memory, the stock-market roller-coaster is back with a vengeance, and we’re along for the wild ride. Across the world, investor fears over sovereign debt and sluggish gr… Read More