Carol Loveridge has retired from her position as the MFL’s Occupational Health Centre Executive Director. A retirement reception was held for her on June 25 at which MFL Executive Director Sylvia Farley (left in photo) made a presentation to her. Carol came to the MFL Occupational Health Centre in 2001 and embraced her work with…

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July 16, 2010The Right Honourable Stephen HarperPrime Minister of Canada80 Wellington StreetOttawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 Sent by e-mail: harper.s@parl.gc.ca Dear Prime Minister Harper: When your government took steps to ameliorate the worst impacts of the economic crisis on unemployed workers and their families through budgetary action and the establishment of special Employment Insurance programs, the organized…

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The Manitoba Federation of Labour Executive Council May 2010 meeting was held in Dauphin on May 27 and 28. Each year, the MFL Executive meets at a location outside of Winnipeg for one of its four annual meetings. At the May meeting, Kelly Moist (facing camera in photo on left) – a new representative for…

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More than 150 Manitoba Federation of Labour affiliated delegates and facilitators participated in the 29th Annual MFL Health and Safety Conference in Winnipeg. They spent two days focusing on this year’s theme, ‘Health and Safety – In the Path of Change.’ The global economy and the series of crises that have plagued it since 2008, have changed…

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April 28th of Each Year is the Day of Mourning, a day set aside by the labour movement and the Government of Canada to honour workers who have killed, injured or sickened in the workplace. It is a day of mourning across Canada and in many other countries of the world as well. The ongoing…

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