by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Apr 26, 2017 | CLC, Health & Safety, OFL News, Union News
Unions and families call on federal government to remember Westray and help enforce the law Unions and families of workers killed on the job are asking the federal government to do more to enforce laws holding employers criminally accountable for workplace death and...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Mar 9, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 On International Women’s Day, Canada’s unions are asking our government to act on their stated feminist principles. “Since the last election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly stated his support for gender equality and declared...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Feb 28, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Kathleen Wynne government ordered a review of workplace law ‘to improve security and opportunity for those made vulnerable by the structural economic pressures and changes being experienced by Ontarians.’ (Toronto Airport Workers Council) Premier Kathleen...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Feb 7, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Ed Broadbent is chairman of the Broadbent Institute and a long-time advocate of electoral reform. Through my many decades of involvement in politics and public life, I’ve lived through a number of disappointments and broken promises. Prime Minister Justin...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Feb 7, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Canada’s unions say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to keep his promise and reform Canada’s outdated and unfair electoral system. Today Justin Trudeau issued a revised mandate letter to Minister of Democratic Institutions, Karina Gould,...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Feb 7, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Molson Coors loses in Ontario Superior Court in an effort to weaken strikers’ picket line. Justice Hainey also dismissed the company’s claim of $6,000,000 in damages. Toronto (3 Feb. 2017) — The striking members of the Canadian Union of Brewery and General Workers...