The Canadian Labour Congress wants Rio Tinto off the podium for this summer’s London 2012 Olympics. Congress president Ken Georgetti has written to Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. Georgetti said with Rio Tinto supplying the metal used to produce the Olympic medals, the congress believes the games are tainted by the company’s reprehensible … Read more
President of the Canadian Labour Congress Ken Georgetti slammed the government for imposing back to work legislation in a labour dispute between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents striking conductors, engineers and traffic controllers. Georgetti said the government is interfering regularly in labour disputes and companies know they don't … Read more
Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti says politicians should stop blaming the unemployed for being out of work and that the federal government should more fully debate its proposed draconian changes to Employment Insurance. Georgetti said government ministers regularly say or imply that there are thousands of jobs going unfilled in Canada because the unemployed … Read more
The Canadian Labour Congress said a group of unions and non-government organizations say that recently announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program permitting employers to pay migrant workers up to 15 per cent less and fast tracking employer applications for these workers is unfair and misguided. Secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress Hassan Yussuff … Read more
The Canadian Labour Congress wants the federal government to split off provisions regarding changes to Old Age Security and several other important issues from its 425-page budget bill, Bill C-38, Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, so that they can be considered and debated separately. Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti said the government has no … Read more
President of the Canadian Labour Congress Ken Georgetti said Canada’s job market remains fragile and the government shouldn't make it more difficult for unemployed Canadians to receive Employment Insurance benefits. Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statistics Canada of its Labour Force Survey for April 2012. The economy added 44,000 full-time jobs in April, … Read more
Hassan Yussuff of the Canadian Labour Congress has been elected to a four-year term as president of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas. Yussuff, who is the congress' secretary-treasurer, was elected on April 20 at a union convention occurring in Iguazu Falls, Brazil. Yussuff said he hopes that the union will continue to be … Read more
The president of the Canadian Labour Congress Ken Georgetti welcomed improvements in the job market in March, but said they may not be sustainable. Georgetti was commenting on the release by Statistics Canada of its Labour Force Survey for March 2012. The national unemployment rate was 7.2 per cent and there were 1,356,200 unemployed Canadians … Read more
President of the Canadian Labour Congress Ken Georgetti said budget 2012 has failed Canadians by destroying valuable public services and jobs and attacking pensions. Georgetti said the government could have used this budget to help struggling middle class and working Canadians. The full release is available online. Call 613-526-7431.
President of the Canadian Labour Congress Ken Georgetti is calling on the federal government to use its upcoming budget to assist in creating good, family supporting jobs. Georgetti said that Canada's economy continues to shed jobs and the government is planning to take the axe to both public sector jobs and services in the March … Read more
