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Magazine
A penny a poppy
Millions of Canada’s plastic Remembrance Day poppies have been made by prisoners and people labelled with intellectual/developmental disabilities, who are paid pennies on the hour. It’s part of a long history of prisons and institutions using poverty to control disabled and criminalized workers.
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Sask Dispatch
The Fight for $15 in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there’s hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.
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Magazine
We Won’t Back Down
The Fight for $15 in Ontario reminds us that when employers go on the attack or cry wolf about economic crises, workers need not back down.
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Online-only
Making Sense of the Unifor–CLC Split
A disaffiliation that threatens union power in a vulnerable time.
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Magazine
What’s at Stake in the Fight for $15?
As the fight for a $15/hour minimum wage heats up in Canada, what lessons can low-wage workers learn from the successes of the movement in the U.S.?
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Online-only
Forget Andrew Coyne, Alberta still needs to raise the minimum wage
The struggle for a higher minimum wage isn’t just about poverty reduction – it’s about building worker power.