The Government Stripped Postal Workers of Their Constitutional Rights. Now Protests Are Breaking Out Across Canada.

Published December 1, 2018 Analysis

The Liberal government’s anti-labour back-to-work legislation is sparking nationwide protests

Lobbyists Pushing for Lower Wages and Longer Work Days Launch Ads Promoting Jason Kenney’s UCP

Published November 23, 2018 News

Merit Canada previously lobbied Jason Kenney to weaken labour laws and loosen temporary foreign worker rules

Fraser Institute wonders if a good job with good pay and a good pension is “fair”?

Published January 23, 2015

Is a job offering a good wage, good benefits and a pension at retirement a bad thing? Many would say that sounds like a sound strategy to fuel the middle class and protect purchasing power in retirement. But one free-market think tank questions whether that’s “fair.” A new report from the Fraser Institute probes that question by […]

Stephen Harper loves them not: union organization curbed by anti-labour bill

Published December 17, 2014

Looks like it’s time for unions to put back on their “Stephen Harper hates me” buttons. On Tuesday, the anti-labour Bill C-525, designed to make it harder for unions to organize and represent workers, was passed by the Senate — despite containing obvious errors.   The bill was rushed through after recent back-to-back hearings at a Senate committee. […]

Rights at work: who wants to go back to 1946?

Published February 27, 2014

The Globe and Mail’s editorial board is pleading with Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak to pursue his idea of allowing union members to opt out of paying for activities not directly related to collective bargaining.  The conservative-minded newspaper chimed in with an editorial on Thursday after Hudak renounced the most controversial part of his […]

Canada’s latest labour minister just like the old one

Published February 6, 2014

That was fast. Just as news broke Wednesday that the union representing 3,000 workers at Canadian National Railway Co gave strike notice, meaning a strike could begin as early as Saturday, the Conservative government served notice it would be tabling back-to-work legislation. Labour Minister Kellie Leitch stood in the foyer of the House of Commons to […]