Photo: NEU celebrates Labour Day

Geoff Ryan, assistant regional vice-president for the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s northern unit, helped organize the Labour Day barbecue at Sylvia Grinnell Park in Iqaluit Sept. 3. “We do this to celebrate unions and what they do for society.” Union officials, mostly representing various groups of government workers, used the occasion to denounce the Conservative government’s recent federal job cuts and other belt-tightening measures that PSAC opposes. (PHOTO BY DAVID MURPHY)