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New Faces on Executive Council
As of December 8, there are number of news faces around the Manitoba Federation of Labour Executive Council table. The meeting held that day was retired United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 President Robert Ziegler’s last meeting as the now-retired MFL Treasurer. His colleagues of many years and the new Executive Council members gave
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Large Turnout for Day of Remembrance Event
Nearly 200 community and labour activists turned out to mark the Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) December 6 Day of Mourning ceremony at the Union Centre in Winnipeg. The day marks the anniversary of the tragedy that occurred on that day in 1989 when a madman opened fire on students at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, killing
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Prairie Labour Groups Defend Wheat Board as Parliament Votes
The leading labour groups from the Prairie provinces on November 28 united in calling on the Harper government to abandon its illegal and undemocratic plan to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). “The Bill before Canada’s MPs right now has nothing to do about market freedom for farmers – it’s all about freedom for the
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Supreme Court of Canada Backs Up PSAC Pay Equity Claim
It was a long time coming, but the Supreme Court of Canada has settled the 28 year long battle between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and Canada Post over gender discrimination against female employees at the post office. In 2005, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal agreed with the union that thousands of women who
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Discrimination against Manitobans with Disabilities Swamps Human Rights Commission
A new analysis from Barrier Free Manitoba shows that 40 per cent of complaints to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission over the past decade have related to discrimination against Manitobans with disabilities. By far, disability discrimination is the number one type of human rights complaint in Manitoba. The new analysis can be viewed in this Barrier