It’s Equal Pay Day in Ontario — a day to recognize the persistent pay gap between men and women. It’s also a moment to focus on policies that can effect real change, because the labour market looks radically different today than it was a generation ago. In 1976, the world…
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The wage gap is pretty easy to understand. I do a job. You do a job. I get paid more. You get paid less. Unfair. Especially if you and I have the same training, work the same hours, and perform the same kind of tasks. And yet, the gender wage…
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On 16 March 2017, the Alberta NDP government tabled its budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year. Whereas last year’s budget announced major new initiatives (such as the Alberta Child Benefit, a carbon tax and the nearly doubling of annual provincial spending on housing), this year’s budget was more status quo. Here are 10 things to know: Alberta…
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The labourer is worthy of his hire. —Luke.X.7 In the early 1960s, while I was working for the Canadian Labour Congress in Corner Brook, the paper mill unions won a 5% pay raise for the mill’s workers – much to the dismay of the town’s business leaders. When I next…
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