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Lynne Fernandez
Work Life: The 2014 Federal Budget
Austerity for the many, prosperity for the few Observers were not expecting anything more than a middle-of-the-road federal budget for 2014, but even so the…
Fast Facts: It’s Time to Change the Budget Channel
The City of Winnipeg has released its proposed operational and capital budgets for 2014. As in previous years, it is hard to see the vision…
Work Life: The Living Wage
An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour,…
Work Life: Asking the Right Questions about P3’s in Winnipeg
On Tuesday, June 11th, Winnipeg’s Property and Development Committee reviewed a proposal to buy out the Private Public Partnership (P3) agreement for the South District…
Fast Facts: Treating Poverty with Income
A recent report by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) examines the health of tenants in Manitoba Housing. It finds that overall, tenants in…
Migrant Voices
Stories of Agricultural Migrant Workers in Manitoba Download 1.26 MB 52 pages The Migrant Worker’s Solidarity Network (MWSN), a group that interacts with and advocates…
Migrant Voices
Migrant Workers in Manitoba Each year up to 400 Mexican men – migrant workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program 1 (SAWP) – work on…
May Day 2013
Another World Is Possible As we digest the news coming out of Europe, with millions of people out of work at the same time as…
Fast Facts: Still Waiting for the Thaw
Just like the ice and snow that refuse to go away this April, the provincial government is frozen into a perennial cycle of cutting revenue…
Work Life: An Ounce of Suppression Prevents a Pound of Cure
This April 28 we will commemorate the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. This yearly tribute is a somber…
Work Life: Employee association, traditional union or new social order?
More and more we’re starting to hear how groups of precariously-employed workers are responding to the vagaries of the “new normal” labour market. From lower-skilled…
Fast Facts: Six Unions, One Voice
This Wednesday, February 13, the six unions operating on the University of Manitoba campus will unite with one voice. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association…
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