Archive for November 2013

Posters “Timeline”

 

The CLC will be using social media and its website to promote the poster themes, with complementary content to show how the labour movement’s work in that area benefits all Canadians. We will feature one workplace poster theme every one or two months, on the following schedule:

 

November2013 –  Decent Wages

December 2013 – Decent Pensions

January 2014        Job Training

February 2014      Maternity Leave

March 2014          Job Security

April 2014             Safe Workplaces

May and June 2014   Fair Treatment at Work

July 2014                      Paid Vacations

August 2014                  Health Benefits

September 2014           Decent Work Hours

Additional poster themes are in development.

Dist 250 and 140 “CLC-Fairness Campaign”

 

Members from all over BC, attending CLC session.

Members from all over BC, attending CLC session.

 

Saturday September 28,  IAM delegates from all over British Columbia come together to make Fairness Work for all

 IAM members from LL’s 11,16,456,692,764,1857,and 2711 participated in the CLC’s Together  Fairness Works conference. The leadership from British Columbia worked on understanding the political attacks our union faces today with the current Federal Government. Delegates learned ways to plan out a communication model to ensure all IAM sisters and brothers in the province are aware of  the harmful legislation that is in design by Stephen Harper. The Fairness works Campaign is connected with the IAM Surveys that are currently going out to every IAM member in Canada.

Paul Pelletreau
Business Representative
IAMAW District 250

French – Video “Fairness Works”

Video – CLC “Fairness Works”

1st Ballot for NDP Leader
Thought on Labour

“The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived their income from wages. Their welfare was the prime concern of economic policy, as Smith conceived it. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable," he wrote. "It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." The chief economic concern of the legislator, in Smith's view, ought to be the purchasing power of wages, since that was the measure of the material well-being of the bulk of the population. (p. 64)” ― Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

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