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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.
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Work Life: Budget winds produce very little change
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 10, 2021 I tried to tell the people but they never heard a word I say They…
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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