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Discussion Paper on the future of CURC presented to the 2007 CURC Convention Delegates

Building the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada

Other CURC Documents, Submissions and Speeches

• Fair Drug Patent Regulations
• JUST SAY NO to Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising
• Pension Reform
• The History of Drug Patenting in Canada (by Ron Lang, part of presentation by CURC to Parliamentary Committee on Health,October 9th, 2003)
• Benefits for retired members: stresses, strains and solutions (speech by Larry Wagg to CLC Pension Conference, October, 2004)
• Open letter to Prime Minister on practice of ‘evergreening’ (October 2004)
• Presentation on federal budget to National Finance Committee (November, 2004)
• CURC submission on pension plan funding requirements
• Submission to Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions (October, 2007)

Other material on issues of concern to Seniors and Union Retirees

• The End of Pensions (by Roger Lowenstein, New York Times, October 30, 2005)
• No Pension Panic: the real pension crisis (from the National Union of Public and General Employees, November, 2006)
• Bilking the Elderly (by Charles Duhigg, New York Times, May 20, 2007)
• Barely Getting By and Facing a Cold Maine Winter (by Erik Echolm, New York Times, November 24, 2007)