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Steelworkers member to member education is specialized training that help members gain skills and confidence to carry out the work of the union.
Here is the text of the resolution city councils are passing
WHEREAS it has been more than two decades since the Westray mine disaster in Nova Scotia and a decade since amendments were made to the Criminal Code of Canada to hold corporations, their directors and executives criminally accountable for the health and safety of workers; and
WHEREAS police and prosecutors are not utilizing the Westray amendments, and not investigating workplace fatalities through the lens of criminal accountability; and
WHEREAS more than 1,000 workers a year are killed at work
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Council support a campaign to urge our provincial/territorial government, specifically the Attorney General and Labour Minister, to ensure that:
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Public and private sector unions have come together because we know the tremendous challenges facing the next mayor and we share the belief that Olivia Chow is the candidate with the vision to build a Toronto for everyone.
Prosecution “will not bring back the deceased workers” but offers hope of determining what happened and preventing future tragedies, union says.