Government workers in B.C. are absent from their jobs for personal reasons 49 per cent more often than private-sector workers.
wages
May 11, 2018
10:04AM
If firms don’t collude, and there are lots of them around, wages will rise until they’re equal to worker productivity.
November 6, 2017
5:02AM
The minimum wage will increase by more than 30 per cent in less than a year-and-a-half.
July 14, 2017
7:00AM
Government workers in Alberta are away from their jobs for personal reasons 73 per cent more days per year than private sector workers.
July 14, 2017
4:00AM
In three of the world’s richest countries, average real wages are lower today than they were in 2010.
January 20, 2016
9:13AM
Every one per cent increase in the corporate income tax could translate into a loss of several hundred dollars per year for the average Canadian worker.
January 19, 2016
1:30AM
September 16, 2015
10:42AM
Allowing workers to bargain independently from the union would help limit the problem of free-riding while not forcing workers to join a union and pay dues.
June 22, 2015
11:00AM
Whenever some group claims that wages can be artificially boosted via government intervention, as one Ontario lobby group recently did, ask them this question...
June 4, 2015
11:00AM
Against a backdrop of persistent deficits and growing debt, the federal and many provincial governments are engaged in collective bargaining negotiations with their public-sector unions.