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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Workplace Rights for Recent Immigrants

    Boom times in BC are reflected in low unemployment rates and robust economic growth. But missing from that picture is the fact that some people are having a harder time earning a decent living than others. Among those people are recent immigrants. Statistics Canada reports that, in 2006, very recent…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Does the TPP Work for Workers?

    Analyzing the labour chapter of the TPP Download 377.8 KB20 pages This study examines the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s labour chapter and finds it cannot adequately protect, let alone enhance, labour rights across the TPP region, as promised by the Canadian and U.S. governments. This is because the TPP chapter largely reproduces…

  • Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable

    Oil-dependent “civilization” faces collapse before mid-century Whether our “civilization” will survive this century is now — or should be — the main concern of everyone. It’s no longer a far-fetched Chicken Little “the-sky-is-falling” bugaboo. Enough evidence has been found to show us beyond doubt that the next several decades will…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Labour Notes – Equal Rights in the Workplace

    Why We Need Anti-Scab Legislation in Manitoba Download 293.66 KB4 pages

  • Labour Matters

    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 of us. The Stella’s workers would rather be on the job, but their desire for fairness sees them on the picket line. In late 2018,…

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    Just transition planning for a managed wind-down of fossil fuels in BC

    Resource development has long been central to BC’s economy. But commodity prices swing, industries consolidate and patterns of demand change over time. When they do, resource industry workers are often left holding the bag. The price is often much more than just involuntary unemployment for laid-off workers, but also includes…

  • “Unfree” Farm Labour in British Columbia?

    The sudden firing and repatriation of 14 Mexican agricultural workers from an Abbotsford greenhouse earlier this month once again highlights the exploitive nature of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). A growing proportion of BC’s agriculture now depends on hiring migrant SAWP workers who are in practice “unfree.” Their unfree…

  • Boom in temporary migrant workers creates a vulnerable workforce, increases workplace inequality

    In 2013, for the first time in Canadian history, retirees will outnumber young people entering the workforce. Immigration is a sensible way to offset population shrinkage and economic decline and, for decades, federal programs have invited new workers to settle in Canada for precisely that reason. But now, on the…

  • A Misdirected Response to a Self-Inflicted Problem

    The essence of BC Hydro’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is straightforward. Maintain aggressive conservation targets and plan to build Site C as soon as possible in order to meet the forecast growth in British Columbia’s basic electricity requirements. As for LNG, the energy needed for the liquefaction process is expected…

  • Glacial pace of governments out of sync with fentanyl crisis

    British Columbia is experiencing the worst opioid overdose crisis in its history. By October 31st, the BC Coroners Service reported that 1208 people had died from overdose: higher than the next three causes of unnatural deaths combined—suicides, motor vehicle incidents and homicides. The numbers for November and December will be…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2022

    Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines the role that wellness influencers like Oh She Glows’ Angela Liddon play in funneling white women into right-wing radicalization. Uprooting the racism in our ranks. Members…

  • CCPA joins global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay

    Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to trillion-dollar global logistics, internet, merchandising and entertainment behemoth was fast and ferocious. Behind the same-day deliveries and trend-setting television series is a company committed to ruthlessly destroying productive economic activity and debasing workers. It is helped along in this pursuit by aggressive (but legal) tax…