Publication Archive

Facts and Fiction about labour’s plan to improve CPP benefits

Posted: Monday, 30 August 2010

The best way to help today’s workers save enough for retirement is by increasing what everybody gets from the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans. The Canadian Labour Congress is proposing a gradual doubling of future CPP benefits. A modest increase in con… Read More

CLC Response to Amendments to our Refugee Determination System

Posted: Tuesday, 17 August 2010

The government has amended the refugee determination system. The CLC has concerns with aspects of these amendments. The CLC regards that the government's safe country of origin amendments to Bill C-11, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as being f… Read More

CLC Calls on Prime Minister to extend Employment Insurance Special Measures

Posted: Tuesday, 10 August 2010

CLC President Ken Georgetti has called on Prime Minister Harper (in a letter below) to recognize that a continuing jobs crisis demands maintaining special measures taken in the 2009 Budget which are about to expire. Provisions to give an extra five weeks o… Read More

Temporary Foreign Workers and ILO Convention 105 on Forced Labour

Posted: Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program has many of the tell tale signs of forced labour. Migrant workers too often find themselves in positions of indentured servitude by unscrupulous employers or oppressed and exploited by labour brokers. The CLC has… Read More