National Union of Public and General Employees

24.02.2005 Liberal MPs, hoping to retain their grip on power, or save their seats if an election is forced upon them, applauded giddily when Finance Minister Ralph Goodale tabled the eighth straight black ink budget, an achievement he described as "the longest unbroken string of surpluses since Confederation." The big winners are the military, corporations, seniors and Canadians with the money to sock away in Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs).

03.02.2005 A new public opinion poll conducted on behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) indicates that a federally-paid national child care program is popular across the country. “Results showed that three quarters of Canadians are ready to have Ottawa pay the price for a national child care program,” says NUPGE national president James Clancy.

07.12.2004 Canada has been caught in the glare of an international security fiasco by the disclosure that 1,127 airport security uniforms, or parts of them, and nearly 100 airport security badges, have been lost, apparently by one or more of the private firms contracted to screen Canadian air passengers.