Posted: Thursday, 4 March 2010
Canada needs added stimulus spending, improved EI, tax on global finance
OTTAWA – The federal budget has no plan to create jobs for 1.5 million unemployed Canadians and provides no road map to a prosperous economy, says Ken Georgetti, president of the … Read More
Posted: Monday, 22 February 2010
Labour, women’s groups will tell UN Canada is lagging
OTTAWA – Labour and women’s groups have issued a report which they say is a “reality check” describing Canada’s lagging performance in achieving women’s equality. The report will be used … Read More
Posted: Monday, 22 February 2010
OTTAWA – Trade unions throughout Canada and Africa will join forces in a March 21-27 Week of Action to lobby the G8 and G20 for provision of Universal Access to HIV-AIDS prevention, treatment and care. The action is timed to precede a meeting of foreign… Read More
Posted: Friday, 5 February 2010
OTTAWA – The federal government must invest more money in public services and infrastructure to create good jobs and an economic recovery, says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statisti… Read More
Posted: Monday, 1 February 2010
CLC President contacts all MPs, premiers, finance ministers
OTTAWA -- The president of the Canadian Labour Congress has written to elected leaders urging them not to abandon the economic stimulus measures that saved Canada from sinking into an even deeper… Read More
Posted: Friday, 8 January 2010
OTTAWA – When the federal government introduces a new budget in March, it must make the creation of good jobs a priority, says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statistics Canada of labo… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
OTTAWA – Canadian unions are observing International Migrants Day on Friday, December 18, and are calling on governments to adopt and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Familie… Read More
Posted: Friday, 4 December 2009
OTTAWA – There is some good news regarding employment in Canada this month but it is far too early to say that a jobs recovery has arrived, says the president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
Ken Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statistics Can… Read More
Posted: Friday, 27 November 2009
OTTAWA – The president of the Canadian Labour Congress says that Supreme Court of Canada judgments involving a Wal-Mart store closure in Quebec are based on legal technicalities and that the ruling would likely not apply in the rest of Canada.
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Posted: Thursday, 12 November 2009
OTTAWA – The Canadian Labour Congress is asking Canadians to send 20 postcards in 20 days to the prime minister telling him to take action now to end violence against women.
“On December 6th it will be 20 years since 14 young women were murdered in Mo… Read More