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Showing posts with label CBC Peggy Nash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CBC Peggy Nash. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
CAW Questions Denial of Chinese Visa
From:
CAW CONTACT
Volume 41, No. 3 – January 21, 2011
CONTACT is the CAW's national newsletter, one of the longest running and widely circulated union newsletters in the country.
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The CAW is questioning the denial of a visitor’s visa to China for one of its top officials, Assistant to the National President and former NDP MP Peggy Nash.
Nash was supposed to be travelling to China as part of a tripartite (labour, management and government) delegation organized through the Department of Human Resources and Skills Management following the renewal of the Cooperation Framework between the Chinese and Canadian governments.
The Chinese consulate in Toronto indicated that the visa would be ready for January 10, in anticipation of a January 14 departure. Nash was later told that the visa would not be granted, but consular officials declined to give a reason for its decision.
As the labour representative, Nash had been asked to make a presentation to Chinese government officials in Beijing about collaboration between government, business and labour as well as the process of free collective bargaining and the role of labour unions.
“I’m left wondering if being outspoken on human rights issues in China, particularly the treatment of Tibetans and the Uyghur people (Muslim minority) could have played a role in this decision,” said Nash.
Nash is a long-time trade union activist and her role as part of the delegation was to advocate the establishment of sectoral/ industry unions in China and support for meaningful collective bargaining, including democratically electing union representatives. Nash also questioned whether the labour unrest this past summer in southern China and the Chinese government’s fear of the growth of democratically-elected labour unions may have contributed to the visa denial.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
CAW on the CBC - Peggy Nash and Jim Stanford
Every Monday, CAW Assistant to the President Peggy Nash participates in a panel discussion on CBC TV’s Power & Politics. Joined by former Conservative minister Monte Solberg and Liberal spin doctor Warren Kinsella, Nash debates the various developments on the Hill and what they mean to Canadians - between 6 - 7 p.m. (ET)
CAW Economist Jim Stanford will be a guest on CBC Radio’s The Current (CBC Radio One) on Wednesday, October 27 along with Obama ‘car czar’ Steven Rattner talking about Rattner’s new book and what government support for the auto industry meant for Canada and Canadian jobs. Tune into CBC Radio One at approximately 9:15 a.m. (ET)
In solidarity,
Shannon Devine
Communications Director
CAW-TCA Canada
Communications Director
CAW-TCA Canada
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