Labour Matters Updates
The Supreme Court ruled, in a five to two majority decision, that the right to collective bargaining, including the right to strike, is a constitutional right for all workers in Canada, regardless of...
February 10, 2015 |
Lynne Fernandez walks us through the reasons why a Living Wage makes way more sense over the minimum wage as an employment standard.
February 4, 2015 |
Manitoba Office This Toronto Star report explains the Supreme Court's decisions regarding Bill 5. It confirms unionized workers' constitional right to strike.
January 30, 2015 |
This CLC report explains the various levels of jurisdictional legislation governing labour mobility in Canada and finds that our "labour bomility regime has been more successful within Canada than...
December 16, 2014 |
This public lecture was presented by University of Regina faculty members Sean Tucker and Andrew Stevens. They explain the generation of public and political support for C-377 by examining the...
October 15, 2014 |
Congratulations to CCPA Research Associate Mary Cornish and her work to get an equal pay strategy on the Ontario political agenda.
The CCPA Ontario has been proud to publish Mary's annual reports on...
October 8, 2014 |
Ontario Office This new CCPA report by Richard Shillington explains that the better wages paid in the public sector are attributable to the higher salaries paid to women and less-skilled employees relative to how...
September 12, 2014 |
As the Federal government scrambles to enact reforms to its' embattled Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the wake of revelations of widespread abuse, the Saskatchewan government has voiced...
July 8, 2014 |
Saskatchewan Office This new report published by The Bank of Canada Review (Spring, 2014) uses a Labour Market Indicator (LMI) to conclude that in both countries, the so-called labour-market recovery is incomplete. Too...
May 23, 2014 |
As reported by the Alberta Federation of Labour - "Bills 9 and 10 - which respectively target public-sector and private-sector defined-benefit plans - will not be passed by the legislature during...
May 8, 2014 |
The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights has just released a new book titled Unions Matter, Advancing Democracy, Economic Equality and Social Justice, edited by Matthew Behrens. This book offers a...
April 25, 2014 |
CCPA recently released a series of three publications documenting the critical role unions have played in reducing inequality and enhancing democracy in Canada. These publications also examine the...
April 24, 2014 |
National Office The following is a description of this European Trade Union Institute report off the website:
"The Benchmarking Working Europe report comprises a critical, fact-based diagnosis of the first five...
March 26, 2014 |
Canada's Labour Market Sputtered in 2013 delivers some alarming data: 2013 saw the slowest job growth since 2009 - when we were in the thick of the Great Recession; employment gains were found in the...
March 7, 2014 |
This CLC report called Underemployment is Canada's Real Labour Market Challenge argues that better labour market indicators are needed in order to understand the dramatic changes in our labour market...
March 7, 2014 |