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Olympic Sweatshops?
Sportswear manufacturing workers are being exploited with poverty wages, unsafe conditions and no voice in the workplace. Tell sportswear companies they need to meet international labour standards.
Canadians must be able to retire with security and dignity.
Our pension system and retirement security programs must be improved for the benefit of all Canadians. No senior should live in poverty!
Put An End to Precarious Work!
The CAW is joining with the international labour community in calling for an end to the exploitation of workers in precarious jobs (forced part-time, contract, temporary). Full-time and stable employment shouldn't be considered a luxury.
Current Campaigns
Play Fair -Say No to Olympic Sweatshops!
The Play Fair campaign is a coalition of labour rights groups that seek to push sportswear brands that produce products for the Olympic Games to abolish... Read More 
Save the National Gun Registry! Say NO to Bill C-391!
The CAW has joined with hundreds of thousands of Canadians across this country calling on MPs to vote NO when Bill C-391 returns for third and final reading Read More
Retirement Security for Everyone!
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have lost good, family-supporting jobs as a result. Many have also seen their hard-earned pensions wiped out or put at risk.. Read More
Precarious Work Affects Us All!
The International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) has designed October 3-10 the week of action against precarious work. Find out what's happening in Canada. Read More
Human Rights First! Stop Canada-Colombia Free Trade
Unionized workers in Colombia have born the brunt of a violent government regime, making Colombia the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Read More
Air Canada: Fly it Right!
Six years of non-stop restructuring has failed to produce a successful airline. Workers have disproportionately and unfairly borne the brunt of Air Canada's... Read More
Protect Our Pensions!
The global financial crisis has wreaked havoc on our economy. Not only has the recession resulted lost jobs, it threatens the funding of worker pensions... Read More
Save Our Severance
As more and more Ontario workers lose their jobs, far too many are being denied their severance and other monies owed to them. Read More
Fix EI Now!
Hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers have lost their jobs in the last five years. The job loss crisis, which had been largely confined to manufacturing Read More
Governments Can Buy Canadian!
The verdict is in! Canadian governments, at all levels, can legally adopt Buy Canadian policies, according to a new CAW-commissioned legal opinion on trade law. Read More
Make Poverty History for First Nations
The federal government needs to remedy the chronic under-funding and appalling conditions of First Nations communities. The Kelowna Accord is critical... Read More
Paramedics
Paramedics belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan, which currently does not allow them to retire with a full pension.. Read More
Past Campaigns and Issues
20 Days/20 Ways to Stop Violence Against Women
Every year on December 6th, women and men across the country commemorate the fourteen women who were murdered at École Polytechnique University in Montreal. Read More
Dignity is a Minimum Standard Campaign
CAW Dignity is a Minimum Standard Campaign: Letter to David Caplan Read More
Auto Crisis
The auto industry is a crucial part of the Canadian economy. Every job in a major auto plant supports 7.5 jobs in the national economy. The auto industry... Read More
Say Yes to a Coalition Government
Support is growing across the country for the idea of a coalition government in the form of a partnership between the NDP and the Liberal Party with the... Read More
CAW Pension Campaign
The struggle to defend our pensions must become one of the most important priorities for the CAW - indeed for the whole labour movement. Read More
Equality - Once and For All!
International Women's Day 2008 will mark the start of a year long campaign by the Canadian Labour Congress aimed at improving women's economic equality Read More
Manufacturing Matters!
Canada's manufacturing sector is in crisis. Almost every week another Canadian plant shuts its doors... Our federal government must take action. Read More
No Free Trade With Korea
The federal government has initiated free trade negotiations with South Korea, and those talks are proceeding rapidly. Read More
Boycott Simmons!
Simmons is trying to walk away from it's legal obligations to pay severance and termination pay to 150 workers at it's Brampton, Ontario facility... Read More
Save the Federal Gun Registry! Say NO to Bill C-391
The CAW has joined with hundrds of thousands of Canadians aross this country calling on MPs to vote NO when Bill C-391 returns for third and final reading in Parliament in the coming month. Bill C-391 is a Conservative-lead private members bill intended to dismantle Canada's long gun registry - the existing government program that administers the registration of rifles and shotguns.
It's devastating that the Conservative government is trying to dismantle the national gun registry, with the help of members of the NDP and Liberal parties.
