Labour

2 Minutes

Canada Labour

Tiff Macklem wants you to lose your job!

PV November 17, 2022

PV Editorial Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem has announced that unemployment needs to rise if inflation is to be checked. Bank chiefs and corporate CEOs practically tripped over each other as they rushed...

6 Minutes

Canada Labour

Public sector in Ontario facing huge real wage cuts

PV October 12, 2022

By Doug Allan The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3 percent over the three-year period 2021-22 to 2023-24. This would radically deepen...

4 Minutes

Canada Labour

Alberta labour fed: “Corporations, not workers, are driving inflation”

PV October 3, 2022

PV Labour Bureau “Conventional” capitalist wisdom (sic) is that labour is to blame for the cause of the rising. “Free-market” economists claim this increased cost of labour is passed along to consumers in the...

2 Minutes

Canada Labour

Tackle Poilievre head-on!

PV September 28, 2022

PV Editorial Brian Mulroney had some words of fatherly advice for Pierre Poilievre last month: “You have got to go fish where the fish are.” The idea being that, having built a far-right populist...