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Manitoba Unions support Winnipeg Folk Festival
Manitoba Unions were proud sponsors of the very busy Family Area at the 2012 Winnipeg Folk Festival this past weekend. The Family Area featured children’s music, crafts and games, helping to make the Festival a true family event for thousands of the more than 50,000 people in attendance over the 5 day event. For many
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Motor Coach Workers Vote to Strike
CBC Manitoba reports: Nearly 500 Motor Coach Industries employees in Winnipeg have rejected a contract offer made by the company and voted Saturday in favour of a strike. They have another meeting with management Wednesday to try to reach an agreement. The last time Motor Coach workers went on strike was in 1986. Read the whole story.
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Winnipeg delays safety protections for bus drivers
On July 3, 2012, the Winnipeg Free Press reported: “Winnipeg Transit will take another three months to make tweaks to a report about improving safety for bus drivers. Council’s public works committee voted Tuesday afternoon to hold off on approving a report that recommended changiong camera angles on buses to better capture incidents of assaults
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Harper repeals Fair Wages Act
The following article was published in the Toronto Star on July 3: The Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act was repealed by a single line in the 425-page federal omnibus budget bill. The act mandated minimum wages contractors had to pay their workers on federal government construction contracts, calculated based on the prevailing wages in the
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Workplace safety records now available to public
As the Honourable Jennifer Howard, Minister of Family Services and Labour, promised at the recent MFL convention, safety records for Manitoba employers are now available to the public. Manitobans can make a confidential request for detailed information about an employer’s safety record, including: the date of the most recent safety inspection; safety improvement orders issued