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AFB 2024: Decent work
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on making decent work for workers
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AFB 2024: Employment Insurance (EI)
Alternative Federal Budget 2024: here’s what the federal government could achieve on Employment Insurance (EI)
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AFB 2024: Immigration
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on immigration
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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…
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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More than 1 in 5 Canadian professionals in precarious jobs: report
Based on a national survey of professionals about precarious working conditions, the first of its kind, No Safe Harbour: Precarious Work and Economic Insecurity Among…
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Plan B: Canada’s gig economy
The longer governments ignore those things it ends up costing us more later on. It costs us when we have seniors living in poverty, or…
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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…
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