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Canadian workers are building the economy, but many working families cannot make ends meet. The labour movement works to change this, advocating for a range of policies. Unions bargain for better wages and benefits, helping workers and their families and creating a more just, prosperous and equitable society.

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Mapping Canada’s Employment Standards

In Canada, employment standards are regulated by individual provinces and territories. Know your rights by checking out our handy employment standards map and comprehensive report on labour standards across the country.

Equal pay for work of equal value: it’s long past the time for employers and governments to get it right on pay equity

September 18, 2022

Canada’s unions are calling on governments around the world, at all levels, to take urgent…

Labour 20 recommendations to G20 Labour and Employment Ministers

September 14, 2022

In advance of a meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers held in Bali,…

A path to the middle class for millions of workers

September 6, 2022

By Bea Bruske, as published in The Province If you appreciate having weekends, a forty-hour…

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Mapping Canada’s Employment Standards

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Equal pay for work of equal value: it’s long past the time for employers and governments to get it right on pay equity

Labour 20 recommendations to G20 Labour and Employment Ministers

A path to the middle class for millions of workers