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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.
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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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