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CCU Calls for Immediate Action on the Recommendations in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry Final Report

CCU Calls for Immediate Action on the Recommendations in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry Final Report

June 30, 2019

The Confederation of Canadian Unions calls for immediate action on the 231 calls for justice included in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry final report. Read the Report Here As the inquiry mandate reads: “The National Inquiry must look into and report on the systemic causes of all forms of violence against […]

June 2019 Edition of CCU Newsletter

June 2019 Edition of CCU Newsletter

June 24, 2019

* The Blue Wave of Anti-Labour Governments * Labour School in Vancouver Featuring Jenny Kwan * Winnipeg General Strike – A History * Winnipeg General Strike – Permanent Monument * CCU Remembers the National Day of Mourning * Affiliate Reports * CCU Spotlight – YUSA’s Scarlett Farquhar * Labour Lyrics: Union Burying Ground Download Here

Broadbent Institute Workshop with the CCU on Union Leadership and Capacity Building

Broadbent Institute Workshop with the CCU on Union Leadership and Capacity Building

June 19, 2019

In February 2019, the Confederation of Canadian Unions (CCU) held its Labour School in Vancouver, British Columbia. Alejandra Bravo and Maria Dobrinskaya of the Broadbent Institute held an all-day workshop on union leadership and capacity building. Included was discussion and debate on membership engagement, activism and growth, organizing, media and public relations strategy, union education, […]

Manitoba Unions Celebrating 100th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike

Manitoba Unions Celebrating 100th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike

June 16, 2019

So much that defines Winnipeg, its achievements and its rebellious core, was forged on Bloody Saturday. Please join us Friday, June 21, 2019 at 9pm in Pantages Plaza on Main Street at Market Avenue for the public opening of Bloody Saturday, a new public artwork by Bernie Miller and Noam Gonick. Bloody Saturday was commissioned […]

Federal Pharmacare Report Backs $15-billion Universal, Single-Payer System

Federal Pharmacare Report Backs $15-billion Universal, Single-Payer System

June 14, 2019

Featured in the Globe and Mail, June 12, 2019 By Kelly Grant The council predicted that a single-payer plan would reduce Canada’s overall per-capita spending on prescription drugs, which is among the highest in the world. Canada should adopt a universal, single-payer public pharmacare program that does for prescription drugs what medicare did for services […]

CCU Holding June Executive Board Meeting in Winnipeg

CCU Holding June Executive Board Meeting in Winnipeg

June 4, 2019

The Confederation of Canadian Unions is holding its Executive Board Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 22 and 23 at the Viscount Gort Hotel. Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew has been invited as keynote speaker, and the CCU is eagerly waiting his response. Please send any agenda items to Michael Belanger at ccucscvp AT gmail […]

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