Registrations are now being accepted for the 2012 MFL Health and Safety Conference. This year’s conference will be held in Thompson on November 8 and 9. Buses have been arranged to transport attendees from Winnipeg to Thompson and back. The cost of the buses is included in the conference registration fee. Conference highlights include: A…

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The Winnipeg Free Press reports: “Organized labour is aligning itself with the province’s most powerful corporate movers and shakers to urge a reluctant provincial government to hike the PST in order to fix Manitoba’s crumbling roads and bridges. …” Read the whole story.

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2012 Report Card on Workplace Safety and Health Manitoba failed to impose a single penalty for workplace safety violations even though 965 employers failed to comply with safety improvement orders last year, according to documents obtained through freedom of information by the Working Families Manitoba campaign. “Manitoba has some very strong workplace safety laws; it’s…

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Nearly 5,000 members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference employed by CP Rail as engineers, conductors, yardmen and others walked off the job shortly after midnight on May 23 in a struggle for a fair collective agreement. Several hundred of them are based in Winnipeg. The first day of picketing was marred by two drivers…

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The Westray law enables criminal prosecutions of employers responsible for workplace deaths. Passed nine years ago, the law has been largely unenforced. Only six charges have been laid across Canada. There have been no charges in Manitoba. But thanks in part to lobbying by the MFL, that may be about to change. For the past…

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