Gathering recalls long time contributions by injured workers advocate
Ernie Craik
The Kenora District Labour Council hosted the Annual Day of Mourning
memorial service to honour workers suffering injuries, illness or killed
on the job at Lake of the Woods Cemetery, April 28.
The ceremony was attended by a gathering of labour council and union
representatives, city and provincial officials and supporters.
Sea of Outrage over Maritime Search and Rescue Closure
by Lana Payne
For centuries, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have made a living from and on the sea.
Our relationship to the sea is both complex and conflicting. On the one hand, the ocean’s bounty has sustained our people for hundreds of years and in recent times a large percentage of that bounty has come in the form of an offshore oil industry. Oil has bestowed a new kind of wealth on this windswept land – a land surrounded by thousands of kilometres of rugged and majestic coastline.
The Health, Safety and Industrial Relations Training Fund of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada will be conducting a seminar entitled Pre-Retirement Planning for Members and their Spouses. The event is intended for all members of your Local union but especially to those members in their last few years prior to retirement. It is open to both your members and their spouse. If you wish, you may extend the invitation to your management. Breakfast and lunch will be served at no charge.
St.
John’s, NL -- Larry Tremblett knows a thing or two about the dangers of making
a living at sea. It gives him all the more reason to be upset about the federal
Conservative government’s plan to shut down the St. John’s Maritime Rescue
Sub-Centre.
ST. JOHN’S, NLFD -- The federal government is putting the
safety of workers who travel to the offshore at risk, says the Atlantic
Vice-President of the union that represents offshore oil workers.
