Publications

Women's Rights are not up for debate! Petition on M-312

Posted: Friday, 20 April 2012

On April 26, Members of Parliament will begin debating Motion M-312, which calls for a Parliamentary Committee to examine whether the Criminal Code definition of "human being" should be expanded to include fetuses. This threatens to allow, through the back … Read More

How Well is Public Health Care Protected from Canada-EU Free Trade?

Posted: Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Background Canada and the European Union (EU) are close to concluding a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Recently, Canada’s first offers to the European Union on Services and Investment were leaked to the public by the Quebec Network on… Read More

Today Solidarity is Pink.

Posted: Friday, 6 April 2012

April 11, 2012 is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia and Transphobia in schools and communities.   Celebrate diversity and raise awareness to end bullying by downloading your very own D.I.Y Day of Pink Solidarity decal … Read More

This Budget, Old People Be Damned

Posted: Monday, 2 April 2012

As published on huffingtonpost.ca, March 31, 2012 My grandfather Mike Georgetti worked at a manual job until he could work no more and then, worn out, he retired without a pension. He had four kids and he and my grandmother had to rely on them to sup… Read More

CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget

Posted: Thursday, 29 March 2012

Introduction Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have laid the basis for a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery… Read More

Budget Watch 2013 Quiz

Posted: Thursday, 29 March 2012

The 2012 federal budget is the first budget delivered by the Conservative government since the May 2011 federal election where they received a majority of seats. Test your recollection of their campaign promises before the election against what they deliver… Read More

CLC voices its opposition to Bill C-31: the government's attack on refugees.

Posted: Wednesday, 28 March 2012

March 27, 2012 The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P. Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Kenney, The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is gravely concerned wi… Read More

CLC President Ken Georgetti writes to Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt in protest of the government's ongoing interference in the collective bargaining process at Air Canada

Posted: Friday, 9 March 2012

The Honourable Lisa Raitt Minister of Labour Dear Minister: I am writing, yet again, to protest the government's ongoing interference in free collective bargaining at Air Canada, coincidentally on the heels of the company's announcement yesterday to lock… Read More

African & Canadian Unions’ Canadian Embassy Campaign: G8: HIV & AIDS

Posted: Wednesday, 7 March 2012

From March through May 2012, trade union organizations throughout Africa will target Canadian Embassies in their countries to gain Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s support at the G8 Summit May 19 - 24, 2012, in Chicago, U.S.A. to: Implement… Read More

Implications of Raising the Age of Eligibility for Old Age Security

Posted: Thursday, 23 February 2012

Basic Information on OAS/GIS The payment of a tax-revenue-funded basic government pension to seniors dates back to 1927 and, in its modern form, to the Old Age Security Act of 1952. The age of eligibility was reduced from age 70 to age 65 between 1965 and … Read More