Employment and labour

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Veterans of the Second World War were given a better chance to succeed than were the veterans of World War I. They received cash gratuities and job training in an economy that was galloping along delivering new fridges, stoves, washing machines, cars, and houses to a population which had been deprived of such goodies for a full five years. Babies also boomed.
Twelve years under the rules of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has had a perverse impact on the distribution of income, wealth, and political power across the continent. A new three-country report shows that NAFTA has not lived up to its promise of better jobs and faster growth for Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Instead it has promoted an integrated continental economy with rules set by and for the benefit of the political and economic elite.
Recent CCPA Monitor articles described how our privacy as citizens and consumers is under world-wide siege by governments and transnational corporations. Employee privacy isn’t faring very well, either. Understand the forces at work. Know the stakes and what to look for--and how you can protect yourself, your family, your co-workers and friends.
In the ideal political economy promoted by the UN’s International Labour Organization, the conditions of work of nearly all working people are negotiated by independent representatives of their own choosing. The situation in Canada falls well short of that ideal.