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Canadian workers are realizing that strikes beat inflation
Prices are not going to go down to what they were before. If workers want to keep their purchasing power, we need to fight for it.
AFB 2024: Decent work
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on making decent work for workers
AFB 2024: Employment Insurance (EI)
Alternative Federal Budget 2024: here’s what the federal government could achieve on Employment Insurance (EI)
AFB 2024: Immigration
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on immigration
Half of BC workers lack access to “standard jobs” and 37% are in precarious employment, groundbreaking survey finds
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER – A study released today by the Understanding Precarity in BC partnership reveals a polarized labour market…
Low pay driving career changes among women workers
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #7: Women workers are changing industries—and they’re looking for better pay
Low-wage workers are most exposed to spiralling costs
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.
The racialized employment gap is narrowing but barriers persist
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #2: Looking at the racialized employment gap among women workers in the Fall 2022 labour force data
No one benefits from a two-tiered university professoriate
For many Canadians, a professor is a professor. The truth is that the professional and economic conditions of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty and contracted instructors are drastically different.
Contract faculty: So much more to know
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Pushing back against campus precarity
A lot of numbers are circulated during the coverage of a strike. But in the current strike by Ontario college faculty, two in particular stand…
Skewed TD Bank assessment of $15 minimum wage relies on outdated analysis
Another week, another skewed economic assessment of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage.This time, it’s TD Bank making dire predictions about job…
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