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Please feel free to browse around and check out our site. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Remember to check the calendar of events as it will be updated daily. 2010 Labour Community Service AwardDo you know a union member who has shown a commitment not only to the union, but also to thecommunity at large? Would you like to honour this person and see her or him receive the recognition they deserve? The person you nominate does not have to be a member of your own union or local. Letter from Kelly Harrington Nomination Form Ticket Order Form The Labour Community Service Award and Dinner begins at 7:30 pm. The guest speaker is Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress. Minor updatesThere is no general meeting in December. The next general meeting is Jan 25, 2010 at 7pm. Also, can you put a riminder on there that the AGM is Feb 12th and 13th and Local Unions should have received their notification and delegate registration.Municipalities MatterThe issues that matter to workers this civic election:Saskatoon Newsletter And Insert SDLC Labour Day BBQ SDLC Celebrating 100 yearsSaskatoon and District Labour Council is Celebrating 100 years in 2009. I hope you joined us at TCU Place, Saturday, May 2 for our Centennial Gala.For more information on the 100 years of service, please check out our Centennial Project General Meeting - Monday, May 25, 2009The next General Meeting is Monday, May 25, 2009 at 7:00 pm.National Day of Mourning, April 28, 2009 Day of Mourning CeremonyTuesday, April 28, 2009 7:00 pm Frances Morrison Library 311 - 23rd St. E. The theme for the 2009 CLC National Day of Mourning is “Enough is enough! It's time to enforce the law and bring employers who kill, to justice." We encourage all affiliates to make Health and Safety a priority for organizing in the workplace. The CLC will be pushing the federal Government to make compliance and enforcement a reality. Federations of labour and labour councils, with the assistance of your union, must push provincial-territorial regulators to act to save lives. The CLC first marked the event in 1984 and since then has grown into a worldwide event observed by unions, central labour bodies, labour councils, municipalities and national governments. The Day of Mourning or Workers Memorial Day, as it is called in Europe, is observed in over a hundred countries worldwide. It has been formerly endorsed by the International Trade Union Congress. Several countries are in the process of formally recognizing the Day, following Canada's example in 1991. It has been 25 years since the CLC first established the National Day of Mourning. We still have workplaces where workers are injured and killed on the job at an increasing rate. This tells us that we must do more to save the lives and livelihood of workers in Canada. On this day we mourn for those who have lost their lives. However, it is increasingly important to continue to fight for the living. Ban Asbestos SaskatchewanA presentation made by Bob Sass and President of the Saskatoon & District Labour Council Brian Nixon made to city council on July 16, 2007[ Read more ] Canadian Labour Congress BetterChoice CampaignCanadian Labour Congress BetterChoice CampaignCanadian working families want politicians to listen to them and work for them. The CLC BetterChoice Campaign starts from the simple idea that people who work for wages are the majority of citizens and the majority of people who vote. So politicians should listen to their interests. In other words, political parties and candidates must be made to feel that people will vote for them or against them on the issues that affect their families, communities and workplaces. The BetterChoice Campaign promotes the issues that the majority of working Canadians support. In 2008, the Canadian Labour Congress and its unions will campaign to move forward a series of issues that are important to working people, their families and their communities, with the view of putting them squarely on the election’s agenda – of making them vote-determining. The five priority issues for working families are:
For more information, please contact: SASKATOON - Darla Leard, 306-221-5536 OTTAWA - Mark Hennessy, 613-521-3400 BETTER CHOICE information is also available at www.betterchoice.ca The Canadian Labour Congress, the national voice of the labour movement, represents 3.2 million Canadian workers. The CLC brings together Canada's national and international unions along with the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 136 district labour councils. Web site: http://www.canadianlabour.ca Go to page >> | ||