From the Winnipeg Free Press By: Murray McNeill A union official is crying foul over 15 foreign workers being brought in to work on a local Royal Canadian Mint expansion project instead of using unemployed local tradesmen. Heiko Wiechern, business manager for Local 254 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, said the Chinese workers have been

Read More

From the Winnipeg Free Press By: Murray McNeill A union official is crying foul over 15 foreign workers being brought in to work on a local Royal Canadian Mint expansion project instead of using unemployed local tradesmen. Heiko Wiechern, business manager for Local 254 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, said the Chinese workers have been

Read More

Every time you turn on the television or read the newspaper these days, there are reports about the Idle No More movement and the demonstrations, round dances, or other protests being undertaken largely by men and women of Aboriginal descent. It is, without question, one of the major stories developing in Canada right now and

Read More

The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) has filed a submission providing recommendations to Manitoba’s External Review of the Workers Compensation Board’s rate assessment model (the system for determining employer premiums). The “Maintaining Fair and Equitable Compensation” review, conducted by Paul Petrie, is examining how the WCB’s current rate model (known as ‘Experience Rating’) encourages employers to engage

Read More

By Karl Flecker. Originally published by Rabble.ca Once again, Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been in the national news. This time, members of the Canadian labour movement questioned the integrity of the program when it was exposed that a mining company had been approved to bring in 200 of potentially 2,000 coal miners from China

Read More