Tag: Minimum Wage

Millions of Canada’s plastic Remembrance Day poppies have been made by prisoners and people labelled with intellectual/developmental disabilities, who are paid pennies on the hour. It’s part of a long history of prisons and institutions using poverty to control disabled and criminalized workers.

Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there’s hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.

The Fight for $15 in Ontario reminds us that when employers go on the attack or cry wolf about economic crises, workers need not back down.

A disaffiliation that threatens union power in a vulnerable time.

As the fight for a $15/hour minimum wage heats up in Canada, what lessons can low-wage workers learn from the successes of the movement in the U.S.?

The struggle for a higher minimum wage isn’t just about poverty reduction – it’s about building worker power.