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February 1, 2017 Canada’s unions say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to keep his promise and reform Canada’s outdated and unfair electoral system.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...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Jan 24, 2017 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
“Our members were willing to negotiate but the employer wasn’t interested. The employer wanted everything gone. The workers couldn’t do that.” — Larry Brown, NUPGE President Toronto (12 Jan. 2017) — Members of the Canadian Union of Brewery and...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Dec 28, 2016 | CLC, Health & Safety, Union News
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 The Canadian Labour Congress is celebrating today’s announcement that the federal government is banning the manufacture, import, export and use of asbestos. “We can all breathe easier,” said CLC president Hassan Yussuff. “This is good...
by SEIU Branch Local 1 | Nov 21, 2016 | CLC, OFL News, Union News
Labatt has decided to phase out the free beer perk for retirees It is the end of the free-beer era for Canadian retirees of a major brewery. Labatt announced it is cutting off the allotment of free beer for its former employees by 2019. The perk has been part of the...