TORONTO – A CBC report into the launching of a criminal investigation into a workplace fatality earlier this year in Ottawa is proof that a campaign led by the United Steelworkers (USW) is making slow but steady progress toward proper enforcement of the 2004 Westray Law. “The death of Olivier Bruneau appears to be both […]
OTTAWA – United Steelworkers (USW) National Director Ken Neumann has welcomed Wednesday’s unanimous vote by the City of Ottawa to call for better enforcement of 2004 amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada, which hold corporate directors and executives criminally accountable for workplace death and injury. “To have Canada’s capital city mayor and councillors fully […]
On the occasion of National Aboriginal Day, I declare that the United Steelworkers supports and endorses the report and recommendations of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I am proud to say that this action was supported unanimously by over 500 Steelworkers who gathered recently for our union’s National Policy Conference. Delegates to that conference supported […]
OTTAWA – Thursday’s demand in the House of Commons by NDP MP Scott Duvall (Hamilton-Mountain) must be acted on if the federal government has any intention at all of saving Canada’s steel industry, says United Steelworkers’ Ontario/Atlantic Director Marty Warren. “Mr. Duvall has repeated our sustained call for a release of details on the secret […]
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