Friday, June 24, 2016 Pensions The Canadian Labour Congress explains… A Better Plan for All: A historic agreement on universal CPP expansion 1. What’s the news story?2. What Canadian unions asked for3. What Finance Ministers agreed to4. What happens now?5. Responding to critics 1. The Canada Pension Plan is in the news. What’s the story?

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 MFL News The Manitoba Federation of Labour is proud to sponsor and support APTN Aboriginal Day Live. National Aboriginal Day and APTN Aboriginal Day Live are a chance for all Canadians to celebrate the accomplishments, history and culture of Indigenous people across Canada. Celebrations take place Saturday June 25, 2016 at

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Canadian Labour CongressMonday, June 20, 2016 VANCOUVER – The Canadian Labour Congress is celebrating today’s announcement by the Finance Ministers that they have agreed to a modest universal expansion of the CPP. The CLC and its member unions have supported an expanded CPP for more than 50 years and have been actively campaigning on this

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MFL President Kevin Rebeck responded today to Bill 7, the PC government’s proposed changes to the Labour Relations Act, which makes unionizing workplaces more difficult. “For years, Manitoba has avoided major labour disruptions. Brian Pallister’s changes to union certification rules are fixing a problem that just doesn’t exist and only makes it harder for everyday

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Premier Pallister and Manitoba’s recently elected PC government delivered their first budget today. The government committed to balancing the provincial budget over the next 8 years and appears to have avoided a long list of cuts to services. But the budget falls short for many Manitobans with no increases to the minimum wage, nothing to

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