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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Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans
What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home Care is to assist people…
Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans
What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home Care is to assist people…
A Family Living Wage for Manitoba
A Living Wage Update Download 482.32 KB 16 pages CCPA MB puts out regular updates of the living wage in Manitoba, ensuring it reflects changes in the cost of living….
Work Life: Living Wage for Manitoba Update 2020 – Summary
CCPA MB puts out regular updates of the living wage in Manitoba, ensuring it reflects changes in the cost of living. Because the living wage is tied to how much…
Work Life: Stella’s Strike – It’s About Fairness
The strike at Stella’s Restaurant on Sherbrook St. in Winnipeg places the verse of the old labour song, “Which side are you on,” before each of us. The Stella’s workers…
Work Life: Waiting for the Brad Wall Inquiry Report
In October 2019 the provincial government announced that former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall would take over as commissioner of an inquiry into Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III transmission and converter station…
Manitoba Hydro and the Public Utilities Board
An Uncertain Future Download 494.35 KB 20 pages Manitoba Hydro and the Public Utilities Board: An Uncertain Future unpacks the approaches used by the Manitoba government to dismantle the Public…
Surviving on Minimum Wage
Lived Experiences of Manitoba Workers & Policy Implications Download 1.01 MB 40 pages In 2001, CCPA-Manitoba published a report titled The Minimum Wage and a Tipping Wage: A Survey of…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Minimum Wage workers in poverty, face precarious work – new report
A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office finds Manitoba’s $11.65 hourly minimum wage is insufficient to bring all household types out of…
Work Life: Women’s Health, Unpaid Care and COVID-19
COVID-19 has further exposed the disproportionate care responsibilities shouldered by women in our province. From frontline workers, to parents, women are the face of COVID-19 both as warriors battling the…
Work Life: Women’s Health, Unpaid Care and COVID -19
COVID-19 has further exposed the disproportionate care responsibilities shouldered by women in our province. From frontline workers, to parents, women are the face of COVID-19 both as warriors battling the…
Work Life: COVID 19 Revealing Inequities in Canada’s Labour Market
The strange times we’re living in are bringing many issues into sharp focus for the public at large. This is true with regard to the relationship between workers and employers,…
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