WHEN IS A PROMISE NOT A PROMISE? Not knowing could cost you. It recently cost a union in B.C. $500,000.

THINGS AREN’T GOING OUR WAY. That’s nothing new. But things seem really off this time. We all feel it. And we are not wrong. Truth bomb: Corporate sector winning the economic recovery lottery; workers falling behind, a recent study by David Macdonald ald for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), details exactly how right right we are to feel how wrong things are.

REG PHALEN QUIT FLAT. He was afraid he’d be left homeless if he didn’t.

“TIPS TURN WORKERS INTO BEGGARS.” That’s Mary Brown’s story. And she’s sticking to it.

THERE ARE MORE SHIT JOBS in Ontario now than ever before: five times as many workers get paid the minimum wage now, as workers did 20 years ago; one third or all Ontario workers make no more than $16.60 an hour, today. And yet, big business and all their kept politicians, keep claiming Ontario is pretty much a workers’ paradise. A new study from the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) reveals how deeply absurd and false that claim is.

MAKING LIFE DIFFICULT for B.C. salmon fishers hasn’t helped. Salmon stocks continue to decline. Salmon fishers continue to face deep uncertainties about whether or not their fishery has a future and, how to transition to a new way of life, if it doesn’t.

WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT it always tells us something. When they fall out about price gouging it tells us three important things: first, that price gouging is real; second, that they know we know it’s real; and third, that they are worried that we will do something about it if they don’t.

PAY EQUITY AMOUNTS TO BIG BUCKS for a lot of workers in Canada. But actually getting the pay can be a long time coming—a very long time.

CRUMBS AREN’T GOING TO CUT IT for 220,000 healthcare workers in Ontario. They want the whole loaf: a complete and solid action plan that will finally respect, protect, and pay Ontario health care workers what they deserve

IT’S A CRAP SHOOT every pay day for all 290,000 workers in the public service of Canada. Nothing is a safe bet. You might get paid, or you might not. You might get too much, or not enough. Insufficient tax deductions might leave you coping with huge pay reductions in future paycheques. The accuracy of T4 slips is anybody’s guess, It’s a crap shoot.