Event Calendar
Category Archives: Federal Election 2011
Canadian Labour Congress Constitutional Convention 2011
Over 2,000 Union Delegates Met At Canada Place In Vancouver For the Week of May 9-13
Delegates concentrated on several important areas of business:
Introducing new mechanisms to resolve inter-Union raiding
Restructuring of the CLC Executive to make it more accessible for smaller Unions
Preparing for the Harper government’s attacks on workers and their families
Promoting improvement to Pensions for all [...]
Posted in District 250 News, Economics, Education, Federal Election 2011, Labour, Labour History, Labour Rights, Politics, Retirement and Pensions, Solidarity, Uncategorized, Union Members, Union Officers, Union Rights, Video
Tagged anti-union legislation, BC Fed, better choices, CLC, Communications, federal election 2011, IAMAW, Jack Layton, Jim Sinclair, labour rights, Machinists, pensions, RRIF, RRSP, seniors
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How do the platforms of the federal political parties stack up on the issue of retirement security?
NDP: A $700 million increase in the GIS Continue reading
Interesting Federal Election 2011 Links
Here are a list of Federal Election 2011 links, courtesy of Jim Sadlemyer of the CAW
Even More Machinists Union Federal Election Videos
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Posted in Federal Election 2011, Politics, Video
Tagged corporations, IAMAW, Liberals, Machinists, NDP, seniors, unions
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Get Out and Vote For Yourself and Your Family
Attention:
All Bargaining Unit Members
Sisters and Brothers:
Re: Federal Election May 2
This letter is to remind you to get the vote out in the upcoming Federal election. At a recent Provincial leadership rally, I heard that 1.4 million British Columbians did not vote in the last election. Those votes are workers who do not share the interests [...]
