Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index
Employment and labour
In Manitoba, messages about the importance of workplace health and safety are hard to miss. The SAFE Work campaigns run year-round by the Workers Compensation Board are trying to foster a culture of workplace health and safety in which it becomes socially unacceptable to put workers in harm’s way.
TORONTO – Ontario is becoming one of the toughest places in Canada for youth to land a job, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office (CCPA Ontario).
The Young and the Jobless: Youth Unemployment in Ontario shows that five years after the global economic meltdown, youth employment levels remain significantly depressed, tracking much lower than the national average.
Five years after the globel meltdown, Ontario's youth employment levels remain perilously low. Ontario youth have been effectively left out of the recovery.
Check out our infographic below and read more in our report on youth unemployment, The Young and the Jobless. (Click the image to enlarge.)
Five years after the global economic meltdown, youth employment levels remain significantly depressed, tracking much lower than the national average.
Among the report’s key findings:
Highlights of recent CCPA-BC research. Inside this issue Time to rethink BC’s LNG plans by Ben Parfitt; Why wheelchair fees are not fair and what they say about the state of seniors care in BC by Janine Farrell; Why does BC have the highest poverty rate in Canada? by Iglika Ivanova; BC government to blame for looming BC Hydro rate increases by Marvin Shaffer; Water withdrawal stats run dry by Ben ParfittInvestor alert: TSX over-valued due to a “carbon bubble” by Marc Lee
The average weekly wage in BC increased by only 1.3 per cent between June 2012 and June 2013, half of the 2.6 per cent jump in wages Canada-wide. This latest news, from an August Statistics Canada release, adds one more piece to the growing body of evidence that BC’s labour policies are contributing to increasing income inequality and stubbornly high poverty rates.
"Nora Loreto refreshes the indispensable union movement for the younger generation of Canadians rendered defenseless by avaricious and cruel corporate globalization. Read it and take the reins of your future in new and forceful directions for worker justice."
—Ralph Nader
From the Introduction:
The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections.
It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle upheld in Canadian law: if a majority of workers in a workplace vote to form a union, everyone should be a member and pay dues – because all workers in that workplace benefit from the gains made by the union in their workplace.
Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index