On Tuesday, December 3, Bill 2, the proposed road worker safety law, went to a public hearing before the Manitoba Legislative Committee on Human Resources. Worker representatives and private citizens had their say about the province’s plan to make road construction workplaces safer for workers. Nearly everyone who appeared before the committee spoke in support

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On Monday, Manitoba Conservatives reversed their position and stopped blocking a proposed road worker safety law (Bill 2) from moving forward for debate in the legislature. If the Conservatives had blocked Bill 2 another day, the new rules could not be in place for the 2014 spring construction season. The Conservatives’ change of heart came

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The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) is worried that that a new law to protect road workers will not get passed in time for the new safety rules to be in place for the spring construction season. The concerns stem from the fact that the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives caucus has been blocking the road worker safety bill

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Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour, 55 per cent of minimum wage earners in Manitoba are adults twenty years and older; 51 per cent of minimum-wage earners work for companies with 100 workers or more and 42 per cent work for companies

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The Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), usually a touchstone for right-wing economic policy wonks, has published a report that warns of the growing crisis facing Canada’s retirees and soon-to-be retirees; it prescribes a remedey that they won’t much like.  Usually, retirement income is drawn from public pensions such as Old Age Security (OAS)

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