Winnipeg Labour Council

Archived Winnipeg Labour Council Stories

Anti-Scab Legislation Needed

A report prepared for the Canadian Council on Policy Alternatives makes a strong case for the need for anti-scab legislation in Manitoba. Read the full article

City Budget Reviewed

Winnipeg City Councillor Jenny Gerbasi says Winnipeg's draft budget has some 'positives' and some 'disappointments. Read Gerbasi's detailed analysis of the budget.

Walmart's Latest Rollback

Walmart's rollbacks don't stop with prices - they also want to rollback the right of free speech. Walmart wants a court order to muzzle a union web site. More information on the web site

Civic Budget Process Criticised

Winnipeg City Councillor Jenny Gerbas believes that the process by which the civic budget is developed isn't nearly as open as it should be to public input. Read article by Gerbasi.

EI Needs Fixing Now

The problems with EI are well known and not something that needs to be studied by a working group that will meet over the summer and consider changes to EI at some future date. More Comments on EI

A New Face at the WLC

Stephanie Mack is now the Administration Support staff person for the Labour Council. Learn more about Stephanie

Picnic Well Attended

The 2009 Winnipeg Labour Council Mayworks family picnic was a great success with about 150 people attending. More information - photos from picnic

Bonnie Rivers Retires

After 19 years with the Winnipeg Labour Council, Bonnie Rivers has retired from her support staff position. Her many years of service and dedication were recognized at a labour council meeting on June 16. More about Bonnie and photos from the meeting

Make EI Election Issue

Prime Minister Harper said that he'd be prepared to fight an election rather than accept Opposition party demands for improvements to Employment Insurance. The labour movement says bring it on. Read CLC president's comments on the issue.

$250,000 for Human Rights Museum

CUPE donated $250,000 to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The donation makes sense since CUPE, like most unions, always fights very hard to ensure that human rights are respected. Read more of what was said at presentation.

Floodway Benefits

Public investment in infrastructure such as the Winnipeg Floodway means a better future - despite the complaints of naysayers who don't like it when government gets the job done on time and on budget with union workers. More on benefits, criticisms of floodway.

Labour Activist Education

The Labour College of Canada is offering an Intensive Program that will begin in January, 2010 - two two-week sessions of residency with students working in between those sessions on their own time where they live. More about this educational program

Public Water at U of W

The University of Winnipeg is the first university in Canada to end the sale of bottled water campus-wide. Supporters of the initiative say they want to enshrine public drinking water as a right by refusing to accept water as a commodity. More about the bottled water ban...

Poster Upsets Bankers

The CLC printed a number of protest posters - one of which had the slogan "It's time to protect people instead of profits for the banks". That upset the Canadian Bankers Association. More about the poster dispute

Black History Month Held in February

Winnipeg celebrates Black History Month, also known as African Heritage Month, each February. It's a month to acknowledge the history, legacy and global contributions of those with ancestral roots in Africa. Read More

When Your Income Stops

A strike, lockout or layoff can stop or greatly reduce your income. If you find yourself in that situation, help is available. We offer a few suggestions to help you cope. Read more

Post Office Workers Win

They had to spend five weeks on the picketline to make their point, but postal workers who are members of PSAC were able to stop management from all but destroying their sick leave plan. Read more.

CLC Convention

Information about some of the activities that took place at the2008 CLC Convention. Read more

CUPE Big Bike Team

CUPE 500 members who participated in the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Big Bike event raised over $1,450. The CUPE "Positively Public" team dedicated their effort to Shannon Scromeda, a young member, entusiastic activist and loving mother, who was killed by her partner in April. Read more

P3 Project Opposed

Some people favour making the Disraeli Bridge project a Public Private Partnership (P3). A previous project, the Charleswood Bridge, was done as a P3 and cost more than if the project had been done by the public sector - and suffered from a lack of transparency. Read more

Workplace Fatalities

Canada continues to have one of the highest workplace fatality rates of any Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country. Since 1984, 19,805 workers in Canada have been killed on the job and over 18 million have been injured. Read more

Rally Over City's Plans

Winnipeggers gathered at Winnipeg City Hall on March 26 to give voice to their concerns about the direction that Mayor Sam Katz and his council supporters are taking the city in. Their primary concern are the privatization plans that Katz has on the backburner. Read more

Support United Way

Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti is urging labour activists to get involved with the United Way. Supporting the United Way doesn't have to limited to just donating money. You can also donate time as a volunteer. Numerous options for how you can help are available. Read more

EOC Public Meetings

A series of town hall meetings gave Winnipeg citizens an opportunity to learn more about and discuss the recommendations that were put forward by the Economic Opportunity Commission (EOC). The citizens who attended the meetings rejected the proposals presented within the EOC report. Read more