There were 4,694,600 union members working everywhere across Canada in 2013 – about 31% of the country’s workforce. Those workers earned, on average, $5.17/hour more because their unions negotiated fair wages and work hours. Those extra dollars on workers’ paycheques stay in the local economy. They get spent at local businesses, where they sustain jobs, and support community services that add to everyone’s quality of life.
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Inequality Is a Drag
The gap between the rich and poor in the United States has grown so wide that it is inflicting a lot of economic damage and makes a new case for trickle-up economics.
It’s time for leadership on jobs: Canada’s job market shrinks as part-time jobs replace…
000 full-time jobs were lost in July, 000 part-time jobs., following the latest employment numbers from Statistics Canada that show nearly 60, only to be replaced with 60, The president of the Canadian Labour Congress has renewed his call for a national jobs strategy
The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows
The 1 percent is literally rich beyond measure, depriving nations of billions in tax revenue and obscuring shifts in global inequality.