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We believe that the Durham Region Labour Council serves as a forum to advocate workers rights and to better the quality of life for workers, their families and their communities.
We believe that the Durham Region Labour Council serves as a forum to advocate workers rights and to better the quality of life for workers, their families and their communities.
Canadian Labour Congress opposes changes to Canada's national census
Discontinuing the long-form census and replacing it with a new voluntary questionnaire known as the National Household Survey is a mistake that will make it more difficult to develop public policy responses to changing demographic conditions... read more>>>
What it's like to protest the G20
Invisible hands seemed to organize the chaotic Toronto crowd into something of a parade, with the different causes identified by flags and placards ... BY Jennifer O'Meara
TORONTO -- Shop windows were smashed, police cruisers burned, cops fired rubber bullets and arrested hundreds of people in the chaos in Toronto at the G20 riot on Saturday.
But this is not the story of the G20 riot... read more>>>
TORONTO -- Shop windows were smashed, police cruisers burned, cops fired rubber bullets and arrested hundreds of people in the chaos in Toronto at the G20 riot on Saturday.
But this is not the story of the G20 riot... read more>>>
Ken Georgetti and Sid Ryan
Largest G20 protest puts people and their safety first - Organizers support injunction to prevent use of sonic cannons during Summit
TORONTO – The organizers of the June 26 “People First!” rally say their reason for organizing what's likely to be the biggest public protest during the G20 Summit was to give ordinary working people a chance to speak out in a place that's safe and free from the overblown security presence that's become so commonplace during meetings of the world's most powerful heads of state... read more>>>
Georgetti praises municipalities' call for improved CPP
Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, has renewed his call for improvements to the Canada Pension Plan following a resolution passed at a convention of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)... read more>>>
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Georgetti says jobs recovery is too slow - CLC president responds to Statistics Canada job numbers
OTTAWA – Canada’s economy is creating full-time jobs but not quickly enough to get us back to where we were 18 months ago, says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
“There were full-time jobs created in May but let’s remember that we have 176,000 fewer full time jobs now than we had back in October 2008. Unemployment remains a serious problem.” ... read more>>>
“There were full-time jobs created in May but let’s remember that we have 176,000 fewer full time jobs now than we had back in October 2008. Unemployment remains a serious problem.” ... read more>>>
Canadian Labour Congress Statement on the Canada-U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement
The Canadian labour movement is of the view that the Canada-U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement, which came into effect on February 16, 2010, is an unbalanced deal that does not serve Canadian interests and does not provide a meaningful exemption from Buy-American policies in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009... read more>>>
Grow the CPP - A better way to save
The best way to help today’s workers save enough money for tomorrow is by increasing what everybody gets from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) as a share of their total retirement income. Which is why we’re proposing that over the next several years we lay the foundation to double CPP benefits for the future... find out more>>>
