Posted: Thursday, 21 June 2012
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress says that new Statistics Canada numbers give the lie to the federal government’s claim that unemployed Canadians do not want to look for work.
Ken Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statistics… Read More
Posted: Tuesday, 12 June 2012
OTTAWA - A 13-country poll conducted by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that Canadians want their government to put an emphasis on job creation rather than on reducing debt. The poll’s results were released in Brussels on June 12… Read More
Posted: Friday, 8 June 2012
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress says the federal government should step back from the radical changes it wants to make to the Employment Insurance Program in light of the country’s still-fragile employment situation. The facts, he… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 6 June 2012
A report released this week in Switzerland by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) accuses the Canadian Government of leading an attack on worker rights and for signaling to the country’s provinces and territories that it’s “open season”… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 6 June 2012
OTTAWA -- The Green Economy Network [GEN]* -- a new alliance of national labour unions, environment organizations, social justice and youth groups -- denounced today the Federal Government’s omnibus legislation, Bill C-38, for driving a wedge between the… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The Canadian Labour Congress wants Rio Tinto “off the podium” for this summer’s London 2012 Olympics.
CLC President Ken Georgetti has written to Marcel Aubut, President of the Canadian Olympic Committee. “With Rio Tinto supplying the metal used to… Read More
Posted: Monday, 28 May 2012
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress has slammed the Conservative government for imposing back to work legislation in a labour dispute between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents striking… Read More
Posted: Thursday, 24 May 2012
The President of the Canadian Labour Congress says that the federal government is pushing through changes to Employment Insurance in order to undercut the wages and employment conditions of all workers.
Ken Georgetti was responding to changes announced to… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 23 May 2012
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress has written to Labour Minister Lisa Raitt to express “outrage” at her interference in collective bargaining in the strike at Canadian Pacific Railways.
“Only 10 hours after the workers went on… Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 23 May 2012
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress says that politicians should stop blaming the unemployed for being out of work and that the federal government should more fully debate its proposed draconian changes to Employment Insurance.
“Government… Read More
