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Advancing Equity by the Numbers and Reporting on Past Promises - A Survey

Posted: Saturday, 7 May 2011

At the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) 2008 Convention, delegates passed two important equity resolutions: i) for the CLC and its affiliates to undertake a gender and equity audit; and ii) to survey affiliates on their progress implementing the recommendatio… Read More

Retirement Security and the 2011 Federal Election

Posted: Tuesday, 5 April 2011

How do the platforms of the federal political parties stack up on the issue of retirement security? Conservative Party Liberal Party … Read More

Message to politicians: keep the long gun registry

Posted: Thursday, 16 September 2010

The fate of the federal long gun registry is being decided by Members of Parliament. Conservative MPs are supporting Bill C-391, which would scrap the registry and destroy all of its records. The House of Commons committee that reviewed the bill has pr… 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

Backgrounder - Labour’s unique perspective on Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Initiative

Posted: Monday, 14 June 2010

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada would “champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world’s poorest regions.” Two days later, Harper reiterated his intention at the World Economi… Read More

Women write to Jack Layton: Take a stand on Bill C-391

Posted: Thursday, 10 June 2010

On June 8, we sent a letter signed by hundreds of progressive Canadian women to NDP leader Jack Layton, calling on him to save Canada's gun registry and make sure Bill C-391 is defeated. Dear Mr. Layton: We are writing to urge you in the strongest possibl… Read More

A Quick Education in Pay Equity - Women's Economic Equality

Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010

Why do we need pay equity laws? The simple answer is that without laws (or unions fighting for higher wages), employers will pay as little as possible for wages. If they can get away with paying women less, they will. Until the 1950s, men and women wo… Read More

Ken Georgetti nominates prominent woman trade union leader to lead ITUC

Posted: Thursday, 6 May 2010

CLC President Ken Georgetti recently placed his support behind Sharan Burrow, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) to head the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). In a letter to outgoing General Secretary Guy Ryder, George… Read More

G8 Nations urged to act on commitments on HIV-AIDS

Posted: Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Treatment and care in Africa – Canada stands isolated among G8 nations on maternal health As Canada hosted development ministers for the G8 countries in Halifax April 26-28, the Canadian Labour Congress reiterated its call for global action on poverty an… Read More

Backgrounder on the G8/G20 & Universal Access

Posted: Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Information Backgrounder From March 21-27 2010, trade unions and civil society organizations throughout the world will target Canadian Embassies in their countries. The campaign is launched in an effort to put pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Step… Read More

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