Wages

  • 10 Paid Sick Days Would Have Little Impact on Business Costs
  • Alberta Continues to Slip in National Wage Rankings
  • Albertans’ Economic Hardship Reflects Provincial Policy Choices, not “Attacks” by the Rest of Canada
  • Alberta’s Disappearing Advantage for Workers
  • At Last, Wages are Growing Faster Than Prices… and That’s Good
  • Business Profits from Inflation, but Workers Will Pay to Bring it Down
  • CANADALAND Podcast Explores the ‘War on Workers’
  • Don’t Make Workers Pay for Inflation they Didn’t Cause
  • Employer Complaints of ‘Labour Shortage’ Lead to Attacks on Income Security
  • Fifteen Super-Profitable Industries are Driving Canadian Inflation
  • Getting Real About Recruitment and Retention in a “Labour Shortage”
  • Happy Minimum Wage Day, Canada!
  • Higher Interest Rates Starting to Bite in Canada’s Labour Market
  • Inflation is Coming Down – But Interest Rates Have Nothing To Do With It
  • Inflation: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
  • Interrogating the Labour Shortage Hypothesis
  • Learning from Minimum Wage History
  • New Data on Link Between Profits and Inflation
  • New Video: Profits, not Wages, are the Driving Force Behind Inflation
  • Pandemic Forces Us to Rethink What Jobs are Worth
  • Podcast: Rising Inflation Creates Tension in Collective Bargaining
  • Real Wages are Recovering… and That’s Good News!
  • Sector Bargaining and Broader Based Bargaining
  • Solid Wage Gains for Construction Workers Needed to Cement Productivity Gains
  • Strikes Have Economics Benefits, Not Just Costs
  • Submission to B.C. Labour Relations Code Review
  • The False Doctrine of the ‘Labour Shortage’
  • There’s no Shortage of Labour: Employers Have to Improve their Offer
  • Three New Videos: Trump’s Trade War; Wages, Profits & Prices; and Defending Living Standards
  • Wage Growth Picking Up, but Shows Important Differences Across Categories
  • Wages Gain Steam, But Not Enough to Keep Up With Inflation
  • We Need More Goods, not Less Money
  • Workers Strike Back
  • Yes, Public Sector Jobs Count, Too
  • ‘Vibecession’: Reconciling Positive Statistics with Negative Sentiment