Explainer: implementing paid sick days and paid sick leave
Across Canada, paid sick days have largely been left to the responsibility of the employer and/or union collective agreements to provide.
Labour Union Movement
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One lesson from the pandemic: Canada needs to rebuild manufacturing
Canadian governments will have to maximize industrial job creation here in Canada, and they will have to perhaps stand strong in the face of WTO or European protests in order to do so.
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Let’s shore up workers today while thinking of the future in light of COVID-19
We must come to terms with the crisis before the crisis— the steady rise in very insecure and low paid work which leaves far too many individuals and families one pay cheque away from disaster.
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Workers must be at the centre of shaping Canada’s ‘Green New Deal’
Green New Deal architects need to bring together the political coalition they need to be the change they want.
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What we can learn from the Oshawa General Motors announcement
Canadians—and people of all nations—must ask themselves at what point does the concentration of economic power threaten, not just a couple thousand jobs in Oshawa, but the very basis of our sovereignty and democracy?
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Pierre Trudeau, the Liberals and the social democratic left
Aivalis’ argument that Pierre Trudeau was a “Constant Liberal” is subtle, and acknowledges that organized labour and the NDP were not always consistently advocating policies well to the left of the Liberals.
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Towards a new Canadian trade strategy
Development of a new trade agenda should certainly be on the agenda of labour and the left.
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Reflections on the labour movement and social democracy
For workers, trade unions and social democrats, the answer to achieving greater social justice is in imagining a closer relationship between social democracy, trade unions and the state.
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The case for raising the minimum wage
What we need is higher productivity in low wage industries, and a higher minimum wage floor will help to do the job.
