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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

CLC Opposes Bill C-49

Posted: Friday, 21 January 2011

Canada is a nation of immigrants and refugees. Our country, our values, have been built on the principle of respecting human rights and dignity of all. Yet, the Conservative government is pushing forward a bill to once again amend the Immigration and Refug… Read More

Report of the Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights

Posted: Wednesday, 15 September 2010

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) supports legitimate efforts to combat terrorism which is in itself a serious attack on human rights, but argues that these efforts must always respect human rights norms. It is not possible to defen… 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

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

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

Realtiy Check - Actually, Mr. Cannon, it IS up to you

Posted: Monday, 31 May 2010

While Canada’s largest union central, the Canadian Labour Congress, along with Federations of Labour, public and private sector unions and district labour councils have come forward to join hundreds of individuals across Canada to uphold Abousfian Abdelr… 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

Migrant farm workers pay dearly — thanks to government flawed program

Posted: Tuesday, 13 April 2010

In March 2010, nine migrant workers were arrested and detained for suspected violations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) affiliate, the United Food and Commercial Workers, who operate agricultural centres across… Read More

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