Ever look at work going on around you? The computer set-ups? The tools and equipment? How much people are expected to lift and how often? Ever consider how few studies there are about most products or chemicals we use?
More and more Manitobans have family, friends and neighbours with a disease, injury or illness caused, or affected, by their work.
Employment and labour
Inside this issue:
Unpacking the Housing Numbers: How Much New Social Housing is BC Building? by Seth Klein and Lorraine Copas
Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC by Marc Lee and Kenneth I. Carlaw
Lack of Water Data a Cause for Public Concern by Ben Parfitt
Job Creation Alone Will Not Solve BC’s Poverty Problem by Iglika Ivanova
Fossil Fuel Peddling Impedes BC’s Progress Toward a Green Future by Marc Lee
An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous growth in Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) –– “guest” workers who come to Canada for short periods, generally tied to specific employers, without future prospects for immigration or citizenship, and without a genuine ability to defend and protect their workplace rights (if they believe their employment rights or workplace safety has been violated, and they complain, they may be rewarded with a ticket home).
Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and working people in the U.S., Britain, Ireland, and much of continental Europe, knew that it would eventually come to Canada. Well, it’s now here, in Ontario, in the form of Bill 150, which would strip unionized Toronto transit workers of their right to strike, and erode their ability to bargain effectively with their employer.
OTTAWA—After a decade of corporate tax cuts, the benefits to Canada’s largest corporations are clear but the job creation payoff for Canadians hasn’t materialized, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The study, by CCPA Research Associate David Macdonald, tracked 198 of the 245 companies on the S&P/TSX composite that had year-end data from 2000 through 2009 and found those 198 companies are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago.
This study tracks 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and finds those companies—Canada's largest corporations—are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago.
However, in terms of job creation, they did not keep up with the average growth of employment in the economy as a whole. From 2005 to 2010, the number of employed Canadians rose 6% while the number of jobs created by the companies in the study grew by only 5%. In essence, the largest beneficiaries of corporate tax cuts are dragging down Canadian employment growth.
“How much money do I need for a secure retirement?”
That is the question many baby boomers are asking themselves.
The short answer is: a lot -- at least as long as we have to depend upon private investment vehicles.
Some fortunate workers belong to employer-sponsored defined benefit pension plans which offer a secure, definite, adequate, inflation-indexed monthly pension for life.
On March 4, 2011, the Financial Post published an article by Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios titled, “We need Scott Walker here.” Scott Walker is the Governor of Wisconsin who is funded in part by the wealthy Koch brothers and is leading the assault against American public sector unions.
Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available.
Colour Coded Labour Market