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Fast Facts: A Made-in-Manitoba Tragedy of the Commons
In February, a provincial news release about changes to agricultural crown advised that “The Manitoba government has launched a consultation focused on agricultural Crown lands,…
Work Life : Today’s coders, tomorrow’s precariat?
Despite being better educated than previous generations, there are fewer decent jobs for younger workers, even after they have paid their dues working entry-level jobs…
Indigenous People Wage Labour and Trade Unions
The Historical Experience in Canada Download 782.29 KB20 pages Have Indigenous people in Canada been active as wage labourers and union members? If so, what…
Indigenous Workers and Unions
The Case of Winnipeg’s CUPE 500 Download 869.69 KB36 pages Indigenous people have worked for wages for more than 150 years in Canada, and before…
Work Life: Take the Politics out of Pensions
In a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives MB report on Manitoba’s public-sector pensions Pensions in Manitoba: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s a Solution and…
Work Life: The $100 Million Question
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday July 14th, 2017 In March of 2017, the Premier claimed that for every one per cent…
A Family Living Wage for Manitoba
2016-17 Update Download 407.39 KB 10 pages Families who work for low wages face impossilbe choices–buy food or heat the house, feed the children or…
Fast Facts: Giving Manitoba’s Working Families a Fair Shake:
The 2016-17 Living Wage Update Notwithstanding stable economic growth and consistently low unemployment, poverty remains a problem in Manitoba. In 2014, 11 percent of Manitobans…
Work Life: P3’s must give ‘value for money’
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 6, 2017 On May 2, 2017 the Province’s news release announced it would be putting out a…
Workers in a dangerous time
Every year on April 28 a Day of Mourning is observed for workers killed or injured on the job. The Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards…
Focus on Budget 2017
The government was well aware that many were dreading Budget 2017. Non-profit organizations, healthcare workers, educators and public sector workers in general were bracing for…
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s 2017/18 Budget
When no news is bad news First published on CBC Manitoba blog April 12, 2017 The government was well aware that many were dreading yesterday’s…
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