Inflation

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...

5 Minutes

Canada

Liberals’ cynical inflation relief plan completely inadequate

PV September 28, 2022

By Dave McKee “Beer and popcorn money.” That’s how the Liberals described the childcare plan introduced by Stephen Harper’s newly elected Conservatives in 2006. Right after their swearing in, the Tories scrapped the $5...

3 Minutes

Labour

BCGEU reaches tentative deal with Horgan NDP

PV September 15, 2022

Public support high for union but fragile for government PV Vancouver Bureau After nearly two weeks of limited but highly effective strikes, the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) had reached a tentative three-year agreement...

6 Minutes

Canada Labour

Inflation: capital’s war on working people

PV September 15, 2022

By Elizabeth Rowley The first thing to know about inflation is that it’s caused by corporate greed. Corporations have made off like bandits during the pandemic and the global capitalist economic crisis that accompanied...