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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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The Monitor, May/June 2023
The Labour Issue: Rebuilding the working class Download 3.85 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD
A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of…
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Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg
Download 597.92 KB 24 pages The City of Winnipeg is experiencing difficulty retaining and recruiting employees to deliver key public services due to low wages…
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Work Life: Lots to Consider this Labour Day
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Sept 1, 2022 September marks the end of summer, the return to school and Labour Day, an opportune…
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Work Life: Cost of wage-freeze effort becoming apparent
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 8, 2022 The $19.3 million the court recently awarded to the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA)…
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CCPA Manitoba welcoming new Senior Researcher Niall Harney
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office is pleased to announce the appointment of Niall Harney as the Errol Black Chair of Labour…
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Work Life: Suffering U of M students deserve better from their Administration and the Province
University of Manitoba (U of M) students are in educational limbo during the longest legal strike in history by the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA).…
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Work Life: Paul Moist Honoured for Lifetime Contribution to Social Justice
Paul Moist is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Errol Black Award, presented to him by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba and the Errol…
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Rising Together or Falling Apart
The Impact of One-Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Manitoba Work Force Download 800.36 KB 36 pages An analysis of Manitoba labour force data…
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Work Life: New report finds Manitoba workers more impacted by COVID than nationally
Last month over 100,000 workers in the United States engaged in some level of strike activity, either preparing to strike or actually joining picket lines.…
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Fast Facts: Workers say privatizing infrastructure services costly, risking safety of Manitobans
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday August 24, 2021
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Hard Infrastructure, Hard Times
Workers Perspectives on Privatization and Contracting out of Manitoba Infrastructure Download 1.67 MB108 pages For several years, the Manitoba government led by the Progressive…
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