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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Work Life: Rowing against the tide of history
Manitoba’s pandemic response could do lasting damage to Manitoba economy Previously published by CBC Manitoba Opinion April 25, 2020 Manitoba’s provincial government is keen to…
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Work Life: Failure to act fails us all…Manitoba income supports needed during COVID
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 1, 2020 Manitoba must help those being clobbered financially by the COVID-19 pandemic: it is the right…
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Fast Facts: Normal is the Problem
Long term care and COVID The heart-breaking tragedy of multiple COVID-19 deaths in Canadian long-term care facilities, and the often-horrific manner in which those deaths…
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Work Life: Austerity, the economy and COVID-19…Manitoba Government creating, not solving problems
First published CBC online April 21, 2020 COVID-19 has upended communities and economies across the globe. Canadian political leaders have taken unprecedented steps to slow…
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Change Starts Here: Alternative Provincial Budget NEWSPAPER
Download 8.15 MB 12 pages We worked with editor Anastasia Chipelski, freelance writers and student researchers to share the APB in this accessible format. The…
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Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19
This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate…
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Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of…
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Fast Facts: Protecting Manitoba Workers Key to Public Health
In the COVID-19 crisis workers are being urged to stay home and self-isolate if they feel sick or have been exposed. But emergency supplement in…
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Work Life: How will the new federal government respond to an economic crisis?
This article first appears in The Monitor Jan/Feb 2020 Far from altering the risky behaviour that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis, bankers, financiers and corporate…
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Fast Facts: From the Throne to the Kitchen Table
Are the priorities of the Manitoba government in line with Manitobans’ more broadly? This is the question asked last week by a diverse group of…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Hydro – the Long View
US Democrat Bernie Sanders recently put forward a proposal to nationalize US electricity utilities. He sees nationalization of electricity production as a way to ensure…
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Work Life: Hard lessons from Europe’s austerity agenda
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 19, 2019 It’s been obvious since his election that Premier Pallister is committed to austerity. His government…
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