Tom Mulcair Addresses National and International Labour Activists at Steelworkers Conference

VANCOUVER, April 17, 2013 /CNW/ - Tom Mulcair, Leader of Canada's New Democrats and the Official Opposition in Parliament, will address 650 labour activists Thursday, April 18, at the United Steelworkers National Policy Conference in Vancouver.

Mulcair will be the featured speaker Thursday at the Steelworkers conference at Vancouver's Westin Bayshore Hotel and Conference Centre. He will address delegates Thursday at 2 p.m.

WHAT: Keynote speech by Tom Mulcair to the United Steelworkers National Policy Conference.

WHEN: 2 p.m., Thursday, April 18.

WHERE: Bayshore Grand Ballroom, Westin Bayshore Hotel and Conference Centre, 1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver.

United Steelworkers (USW) members from across Canada have been joined by international labour leaders and social justice activists for the USW's 52^nd National Policy Conference.

In addition to Mulcair's keynote address, conference delegates will hear Thursday from Jyrki Raina, General Secretary of global labour federation IndustriALL that represents 50 million workers in 140 countries, as well as Napoleon Gomez, Leader of Mexico's Los Mineros union who has been exiled in Canada for seven years.

Also on Thursday, representatives of First Nations and Chinese communities will join conference delegates for a panel discussion on the scandals and court challenges created by the Harper government's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program will be debated Thursday at 9 a.m.

The United Steelworkers has launched legal proceedings in Federal Court to challenge the Harper government's approval for temporary workers to replace existing employees at RBC.

The USW also has played a leading role in exposing the Conservative government's approval for hiring temporary foreign workers for mining jobs in British Columbia even though hundreds of Canadian applicants were not even granted interviews.

SOURCE: United Steelworkers (USW)

For further information or to arrange interviews, contact:

Bob Gallagher, USW Communications, [phone], [email protected]
Denis St. Pierre, USW Communications [phone], [email protected]
Brad West, USW Communications, 604-754-1174, [email protected]