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Compulsory arbitration no substitute for right to strike in health care: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, October 28, 2008-Two specialists in industrial relations insist that compulsory arbitration is not a good substitute for…
Fastfacts: The Labour Movement in Manitoba
The Struggle Continues Download 504.19 KB 2 pages
Corporate social responsibility means paying a living wage
Making paid work meet basic family needs Families who work for low wages often face impossible choices: buy clothes or heat the house, feed the…
Living wage shows real cost of raising a family
Would lift thousands out of poverty, share prosperity of BC’s economy READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) A new study calls on major public and…
Working for a Living Wage 2008
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Vancouver and Victoria Download 2.85 MB 52 pages Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available. Attachments…
“Unfree” Farm Labour in British Columbia?
The sudden firing and repatriation of 14 Mexican agricultural workers from an Abbotsford greenhouse earlier this month once again highlights the exploitive nature of Canada’s…
The Harper Record
This book is one in a series of CCPA publications that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure.…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2008, Volume 11, Number 3 Download 428.38 KB8 pages Inside this issue: Harvest of Shame: Cultivating Farmworker Rights Living on Welfare Denying Income Inequality…
September 2008: A New Pension Debate?
Most workers today are facing bleak retirement prospects Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a big Canadian pensions debate, centred mainly on the…
Financial Instability and the GATS Negotiations
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Economics for Everyone, First Edition
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Economics is too important to be left to the economists. Economics for Everyone is a brilliantly concise…
Manitoba in 2006
A Census Snapshot Download 301.8 KB 4 pages
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