« Dans ce livre, Nora Loreto propose une vision rafraichie de l’indispensable mouvement syndical à la jeune génération de Canadiens et Canadiennes que la mondialisation avare et cruelle des entreprises a laissés sans protection. Lisez-le et devenez les maitres de votre avenir en vous engageant avec conviction sur le chemin de la justice pour les travailleurs et travailleuses. »
—Ralph Nader
Employment and labour
OTTAWA—Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released The Harper Record 2008-2015, a detailed account of the Conservative government’s economic, environmental, social, foreign policy and democratic records through the 2008 crisis, Great Recession and ongoing economic recovery.
This book, which builds on the 2008 collection The Harper Record, continues a 25-year tradition at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives of periodically examining the records of Canadian federal governments during their tenure.
The Ontario government has also been under steady pressure to raise the minimum wage. It responded to that pressure by striking the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel in June 2013.
TORONTO – October 1st marks the first year in which the Ontario government adjusts its provincial minimum wage to inflation, but the job is only half finished, says a study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office (CCPA-Ontario).
Raising the Bar: Revisiting the Benchmark Question for Ontario’s Minimum Wage, published in partnership with the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO) project, says indexing minimum wage to inflation is a good first step but only half the job.
The Alberta government’s plan to increase the hourly minimum wage from $10.20 to $15 by 2018 has generated considerable public debate and some bold predictions. The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB), for example, claims that it would cost the province “between 53,500 and 195,000 jobs.” In other words, the CFIB believes that as many as half of the 379,500 Alberta workers currently making less than $15 an hour could lose their jobs. This is simply not credible.
This study finds that federal underfunding and understaffing of safety inspectors are putting employees in federally regulated workplaces sector in harm’s way. The study examines occupational health and safety developments between 2007 and 2012 in sectors under federal jurisdiction, including banking, communications, broadcasting, postal services, road, air, rail and water transport, as well as the federal government.
Cette étude est disponible en français: Des changements qui s’imposent.
Selon cette étude, le financement fédéral insuffisant et le manque d’inspecteurs de sécurité mettent en danger les employés dans le secteur des lieux de travail sous réglementation fédérale. L’étude analyse les événements survenus en santé et sécurité au travail entre 2007 et 2012 dans les secteurs de compétence fédérale, y compris ceux des opérations bancaires, des communications, de la radiodiffusion, des services postaux, du transport routier, aérien, ferroviaire et maritime, sans oublier l’administration fédérale.
OTTAWA — Le financement fédéral insuffisant et le manque d’inspecteurs de sécurité mettent en danger les employés dans le secteur des lieux de travail sous réglementation fédérale, selon une étude rendue publique aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives.
By some estimates, health care expenditures will account for about 80 percent of provincial program spending by 2030. This means fewer dollars for other priorities. With a problem this big, it’s important to get the diagnosis right.
Many on the right would have us believe that it’s our public health care system causing expenditures to increase, but that’s nothing more than a corporate fantasy. It’s been well documented that public delivery is far more efficient than the private alternative.