Sister Lorraine Sigurdson was awarded the Stanley Knowles Solidarity Award at the 2014 Manitoba NDP Convention in Winnipeg.  It recognizes her many contributions to both the labour movement and the NDP over her decades of activision. Here is Brother Rebeck’s Award speech to Sister Sigurdson:                    

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Good Afternoon Sister and Brothers Let me start by telling you that it gives me great pleasure to stand here this afternoon to bring you greetings on behalf of the unions that are affiliated to the Manitoba Federation of Labour and the more than 96 thousand working people and their families that they represent. I’ve

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The 2014 Manitoba NDP Convention was well attended by labour delegates – some there representing their Union, some their Constituency and others were there as retired union members. The MFL submitted 15 resolutions on topics such as Anti-Scab and Automatic Certification, Canada Pension Plan improvements, health care staffing levels, WCB Claim Supression, a living wage

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In 1997, when Gary Filmon and his Conservative cronies sold off the publicly owned Manitoba Telephone System at firesale prices, the new private company decided it should keep more than $43 million of pension fund money that was rightfully owned by its employees.  In the push and shove of the subsequent he-said-she-said argument, the company

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As Canada’s workplace based pension plans continue their slide into irrelevance, more and more Canadians are relying on income from public pension plans such as CPP/QPP and Old Age Security to make ends meet. Many workplace pension plans exist today because unions and their members bargained hard (and went on lengthy strikes) to win them.

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