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		<title>Hearts &#038; minds of activists to galvanize national convention of retirees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With a Federal election nearly one year away delegates from throughout the country are now making their way to Toronto for the biennial convention of the Congress of Union Retirees (CURC). As seniors are soon expected to outnumber 14-year-olds for the first time — reaching 23% of the Canadian population — the issues to deal with loom large for delegates to consider, with housing, healthcare and pensions at the forefront. Invigorated by one of the Convention documents outlining the extensive activities by the membership in recent times, CURC President Len Hope insists that these can be transformed into building blocks...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don Wright honoured with CURC Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Don Wright, a founding member of the Toronto and York Area Council of CURC received the CURC Award at our 2013 Convention. Don has been an activist for social justice throughout his adult life. He has raised funds for the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) and the NDP among others. The CURC Award is presented at every convention to honour a member who has made an outstanding contribution to the labour movement, the community and the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada. Don Wright (left) is congratulated by Secretary Bob McGarry on being named recipient of the CURC Award. Don has...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ed Broadbent on Unions and Inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Ed Broadbent Editor’s note: the following are notes for a speech by Ed Broadbent at CURC’s 11th Constitutional Convention in Ottawa, October 22, 2013. Retired federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, now chair of the Broadbent Institute, answers a question at CURC’s convention, Oct. 22, 2013. CLC Secretary-Treasurer Hassan Yussuff looks on. Thank you for the invitation to speak today on the important issue of unions and economic inequality. Any democracy worth of the name must work at achieving a high level of equality and strongly enforced rights to a union. Last year the Broadbent Institute published two discussion papers....]]></description>
		
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		<title>CURC holds largest ever convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Congress of Union Retirees of Canada marked its 20th Anniversary with its largest convention ever. The opening night panel featured Ed Broadbent and Hassan Yussuff. It was webcast in both English and French. Six hundred people followed on line and submitted questions. Videos of presentations by Broadbent and Yussuff will be posted on the CURC website. The Convention was held October 22 – 25 in Ottawa. This was one day longer than previous Conventions. The extra time was needed as 76 resolutions were sent in and all but 6 were debated and adopted. The adopted resolved section of the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Union retirees meet to talk election issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Union retirees from across Canada will talk about the issues facing retirees and senior citizens when they gather in Ottawa, October 22nd to the 25th for the Eleventh Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada. CURC, acts as an advocacy group on behalf of union retirees and senior citizens. The theme for this year’s convention is Retirees: Building for the future. CURC President Pat Kerwin says with an ageing population and retirees living longer, Canadians need to think about how we can creatively meet the opportunities and challenges that this presents. He says retirees need solutions that...]]></description>
		
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		<title>CURC commits to continuing pension fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CURC will continue to fight for fair pensions for all Canadians, more than 100 delegates to the 10th&#160;Constitutional Convention unanimously decided. Delegates ratified a motion from the Ottawa Area Council which commits our Congress to: continue to support the Canadian Labour Congress “Retirement Security for Everyone” campaign, which seeks to double benefits from the Canada/Quebec pension plans, lobby to increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement by 15%, to a level sufficient to eliminate poverty among the elderly, work to establish a federal system of mandatory national pension insurance, expose the flaws of the Tory government’s private-sector Pooled Registered Pension Plan and...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Innovative technique gets everyone involved in debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s a technique that hasn’t often been tried in the labour movement, but it’s one that will probably be repeated. Organized by CURC Vice-President Len Hope, the “New York café” added a touch of the coffeehouse to our 10th&#160;Constitutional Convention. It’s also called by other names, but the idea is the same. Instead of sitting at their seats facing the podium, convention organizers set up the hall with small tables of four delegates each to debate CURC’s home-care policy paper. Tablecloths were laid and candles were placed on the tables to emulate the coffeehouse atmosphere. Delegates were asked three questions:...]]></description>
		
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		<title>CURC resolutions address retiree concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Resolutions passed at CURC’s 10th Constitutional Convention addressed a wide range of retiree concerns. Submitted by CURC affiliates from coast to coast, the resolutions committed CURC to: • lobby the government to provide full disclosure of items being negotiated in the Canada-Europe Trade Agreement (CETA) and in conjunction with other retirees’ organizations, will oppose any provisions of CETA that would increase the cost of drugs in Canada. • state its absolute opposition to the efforts of employers and governments to establish two tier wages and two tier pension benefits. • lobby federal political parties, in cooperation with the labour movement,&#160;...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pensioners bear the brunt of corporate bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a company goes bankrupt, it’s often workers who are left in the lurch. Three different speakers outlined two approaches to facing the loss of pensions and benefits which comes with a bankrupt company at CURC’s 10th&#160;Constitutional Convention in Port Elgin ON. Members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) have launched a fight to change Canada’s bankruptcy laws after the sudden collapse of Fraser Papers in New Brunswick and Quebec left workers with a 30-40% shortfall in their pensions. Members of CAW Local 1451 in Kitchener ON occupied a plant to protect their pensions after the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Home-care panel urges fight for public system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being able to live at home is one of the most important determinants of the quality of life for seniors, and Canadians must be prepared to fight for quality home care to help them do that, panelists at the home-care forum at CURC’s 10th&#160;Constitutional Convention agreed. Creeping privatization threatens our standard of living as we age, but Canadians can fight back by working to protect all forms of universal, public health care, they said. Delegates later approved a resolution calling on the federal government to implement a national home-care program with standards and provisions of core services comparable from province...]]></description>
		
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