The Peace Officers Memorial Foundation, the Firefighters Foundation and the Workers Foundation joined forces on September 20 to outline plans for a new three-monument memorial to honor and recognize their fallen comrades. Among those attending the event were Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Steve Ashton, Manitoba’s Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation. Robert Belanger, President of

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At the end of August, new workplace safety and health regulations went into effect to address violence in the workplace. These changes were announced by Labour Minister Jennifer Howard on April 6, 2011 and were developed with input from labour representatives on the Minister’s Advisory Council on Workplace Safety and Health. The new regulations apply

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On August 26, Brother Ken Hildahl passed away. Brother Hildahl began his career with the Manitoba Government and General Employees Union in 1982 as a staff representative and from 1989 to 2002 was the Director of Operations for the union. Having held numerous positions as an activist within the MGEU, Brother Hildahl touched the lives

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The Manitoba Federation of Labour Young Members Committee selected Jonny Sopotiuk (read his blog) as the recipient of the 2011/12 Al Cerilli MFL Scholarship award. This $500 scholarship will assist Brother Sopotiuk in his pursuit of a degree in Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba. Jonny Sopotiuk (pictured receiving his scholarship cheque from MFL

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The leaders of Canada’s provincial and territorial Federations of Labour on July 21 called on the premiers to use their annual meeting, which was underway in Vancouver at the time, as a platform to protest Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “shocking abandonment of the kind of real pension reform that Canadians want and desperately need.” The

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