Labour Matters Project
Promoting a positive vision for unions in Canada
Labour Matters is a product of the Trade Union Research Collective. The collective’s goal is to promote greater understanding of the positive role that unions play in the workplace, in the labour market, in the community, and in wider society.
- The union advantage
- Fairness in the workplace
- The right to strike
- Decent pay
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New Analysis Finds 1 in 4 Manitobans Earns Less Than a Living Wage
11:00 AM CST For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): New analysis released this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba finds that 171,072 workers in Manitoba earn…
Struggling To Get Ahead
Struggling To Get Ahead PDFDownload New analysis finds that 171,072 workers earn less than the living wage in Manitoba ($19.21 per hour), which is approximately 25% of all workers in…
Progressive Labour Agenda for Manitoba:
Download 1.73 MB 56 pages The Progressive Labour Agenda is intended to provide Manitoba policy makers with a set of clear policy measures to improve the conditions of work for…
Progressive Labour Agenda for Manitoba:
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): A new survey released today finds that most Manitobans support extending employment rights held by employees to gig workers who work for digital platforms…
Balancing Act:
Download 876.61 KB 52 pages The evidence presented in this report runs counter to arguments that card-check and anti-scab legislation give excessive power to workers over employers. Rather, card-check certification…
Falling Behind: What Explains a Wave of Strikes in Rural Manitoba School Divisions
Download 676.25 KB 24 pages This report calls on the provincial government to work with school divisions, unions, and the ministry of education to equalize wages for educational support staff…
Manitoba’s Living Wage Update 2023
Download 1014.61 KB 16 pages In Winnipeg, the living wage has risen to $19.21 per hour, in Brandon to $15.69 per hour, and in Thompson to $17.48 per hour. In…
Living Wage rising due to high costs of food rent – 2023 Update released today.
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB) is releasing the 2023 living wage this morning, 10am at 223 Carlton Ave (ACU main…
Media Advisory: Release of Living Wage 2023 Update on December 12th at 10:30 am
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba office will be releasing the updated calculation of the Living Wage for Winnipeg, Brandon and Thompson at…
Austerity hurts
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press November 13, 2023 ON Oct. 3, Manitobans elected a new government which, like its predecessors, has promised to balance the provincial budget. The…
Making a living in an age of inflation
The 2022 living wage for Regina and Saskatoon Download 3 MB 12 pages The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calculates that a family of four would…
The Monitor, May/June 2023
The Labour Issue: Rebuilding the working class Download 3.85 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the power of workers—together, we…
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