Related Content for Role of Unions

Unions encouraged to adapt

Posted: Monday, 6 February 2012

As published in the Waterloo Region Record on Monday, February 6, 2012. Unions need new image: secret report - Jan. 26 This story describes an honest assessment by the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union about the b… Read More

Letter to the Globe and Mail: Gwyn Morgan doesn't get it

Posted: Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Sent to The Globe and Mail November 28, 2011 Gwyn Morgan uses his column to dump simultaneously on young Occupy protesters and on the labour movement (A history lesson for Occupy protesters). He says there is really no inequality in Canada to criticize. Tr… Read More

Unions are key to fighting inequity: CLC President writes to the Toronto Star

Posted: Thursday, 17 November 2011

(As published on thestar.com, Wednesday, November 16, 2011) The people who have been occupying financial districts in Canadian and American cities are motivated by anger over the glaring economic unfairness that exists in our society. The labour movement w… Read More

Georgetti strikes back at Fraser Institute, National Post

Posted: Friday, 30 September 2011

To the Editor National Post Is the National Post loading the dice in favour of the Fraser Institute in an exchange arising from their attacks on the labour movement (Who finances Fraser’s anti-union agenda)? Last week you carried an opinion piece from t… Read More

Georgetti challenges the Fraser Institute to come clean on who finances their anti‑union agenda

Posted: Monday, 26 September 2011

The Editor National Post The Fraser Institute attacks trade unions for an alleged lack of transparency in how we disclose financial information (Open union books). How would they know? We will gladly compare our transparency with theirs any day of the wee… Read More

Georgetti letter to the Globe and Mail regarding Wisconsin

Posted: Tuesday, 1 March 2011

CLC President Ken Georgetti sent a letter to The Globe and Mail newspaper on March 1 regarding a column in which Globe writer Margaret Wente said that it would be a good idea if the draconian union busting practices in Wisconsin were to be copied north of t… Read More

Unions work to help members and all Canadians, too

Posted: Friday, 13 August 2010

As published in the Ottawa Citizen, Friday, August 13, 2010 Re: Defend workers from unions, Aug. 9. The attack on unions by Joseph Ben-Ami and Garnett Genuis in this Citizen opinion article is dogma thinly disguised as research. The writers oppose the au… Read More

Georgetti responds to Sun Media’s misleading attack on unions

Posted: Thursday, 8 July 2010

Ken Georgetti, CLC President, responded with a letter to a misleading opinion article carried in 25 Canadian newspapers belonging to the Sun Media chain on July 7. Eric Duhaime, the article’s author began by blaming labour groups for the street protests a… Read More

Return to Role of Unions