March 2016 - Confederation of Canadian Unions (CCU)

April 2016 CCU Executive Board Meeting and Labour School on Duty to Accommodate

March 23, 2016

The April 2016 Labour School of the Confederation of Canadian Unions will feature Wayne Benedict (read bio here), an Alberta Barrister and Solicitor with the E. Wayne Benedict Professional Law Corporation. Wayne will be speaking about the duty to accommodate, management rights vs. employee privacy rights, and recent developments in freedom of association. The one-day […]

Confederation of Canadian Unions Calls for a National Ban on For-Profit Plasma Clinics

March 16, 2016

By CCU President John Hanrahan Two thousand Canadians were infected with HIV in the 1980s from receiving tainted blood products, and a further 30,000 Canadians were infected with Hepatitis C from receiving tainted blood. As a result, on October 4, 1993, the federal government commissioned an inquiry into what became known as the Tainted Blood […]