Abstract
Labour education in pension fund investment is vital because our pensions must ultimately work for us to help us retire in dignity, and $550 billion of Canadian workers' deferred savings must also work in our interests to make our communities stronger and provide good jobs for our families. Social investment—a central premise for the research in Pensions at Work—is designed to work out practical strategies that are in the interests of working people and ensure secure lives for working people before and after retirement.

Labour education in pensions can help union trustees and activists keep ahead of the latest research in fund investment, capital strategies, the latest trends in statutes and case law, actuarial assumptions, and socio-economic trends. Labour education can also help to bring members up to speed on pension issues and allow them to take leadership roles on pensions within the labour movement.

Pensions at Work makes sure the research and education stays on track by having an Advisory Group of professionals as well as a Union Reference Group to work with professors and their students, shaping the research, advising on new programs, and keeping the project grounded in research and education relevant to working people. In three year's time, when Pensions at Work has completed its work, we expect that its legacy of work will continue in the hands of the trade union movement.

Tool Developed Through Project
The Guide to Instruments of Corporate Responsibility profiles 16 leading standards, codes, guidelines and principles of corporate responsibility. In addition to providing an overview of the purpose and operation of each instrument, the Guide draws on concrete examples to illustrate how institutional investors and labour pension funds have employed these instruments in promoting corporate responsibility in their equity holdings.