OTTAWA – The availability of good quality and family-supporting jobs for Canadians remains a problem even as the country begins to emerge from a devastating recession, says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

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While Canada is in the midst of the greatest recession in recent times,
our Federal Government has seen fit to use the bad times to attack
working people for their only sin, that of working for one of the many
employers who are on the brink of financial disaster. Not a single
worker caused this global economic meltdown, but for some reason, the
Harper government seems to be inclined to blame us, while remaining
largely silent in their criticism of those who got us into this mess.
Attached, please find a letter CLC President Ken Georgetti sent to The
Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Industry on April 17th.

Letter to Hon. Tony Clement