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Balancing Act: Card-Check, Anti-Scab, and the Case for Rebalancing Manitoba’s Labour Relations
January 26, 2024 | Authored by: Niall Harney
The evidence presented in this report runs counter to arguments that card-check and anti-scab legislation give excessive power to workers over employers. Rather, card-check certification and a replacement worker ban are fundamental to upholding workers …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Falling Behind: What Explains a Wave of Strikes in Rural Manitoba School Divisions
December 22, 2023 | Authored by: Niall Harney
This report calls on the provincial government to work with school divisions, unions, and the ministry of education to equalize wages for educational support staff across the province. Pay disparities are not present for teachers across the province. T …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Manitoba’s Living Wage Update 2023
December 12, 2023 | Authored by: Niall Harney, Jesse Hajer, Natalie Dandeneault
In Winnipeg, the living wage has risen to $19.21 per hour, in Brandon to $15.69 per hour, and in Thompson to $17.48 per hour. In Winnipeg, this is an increase of 87 cents (5 percent) over last year. In Brandon the increase is 3 cents above the 2022 liv …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Funding Our Way: Rebalancing Revenues and Spending for a Fair and Prosperous Manitoba
November 20, 2023 | Authored by: Jesse Hajer, Niall Harney, David Macdonald
The last few years have been quite the ride. Navigating the ups and downs of the COVID-19 pandemic, government support, and the cost of living has been a social and economic rollercoaster in many respects, leaving many wondering if things will ever set …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Austerity Hurts
November 15, 2023 | Authored by: Julie Guard
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press November 13, 2023 ON Oct. 3, Manitobans elected a new government which, like its predecessors, has promised to balance the provincial budget. The previous government’s program of tax breaks and cuts to pu …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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An Updated Calculation Guide for the 2023 Family Living Wage for Manitoba
October 14, 2023 | Authored by: Jesse Hajer, Natalie Dandenault
The purpose of this guide is to assist others in calculating a living wage for their own communities, using the method developed by the CCPA–BC and First Call to calculate Vancouver and Victoria living wages in 2008. This particular guide will be most …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Child Care Also an Austerity Victim
September 13, 2023 | Authored by: Susan Prentice, Jesse Hajer
Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day childcare create the perception that the Province of Manitoba has increased funding and support for childcare. The reality is quite different. Despite provincial ELCC spending being higher than it was in 2016, fede …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Austerity in Public Education Hurts
September 13, 2023 | Authored by: Ee-Seul Yoon
As educators and children are heading back to the classroom next week, it’s worth reviewing what they’re returning to after seven years of funding shortfalls and cuts. Teachers are doing their best with the resources they have, but it’s not enough. Wh …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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A Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba
September 6, 2023 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon, Yutaka Dirks, Lynne Fernandez, Christina Maes Nino, Sarah Cooper
The Right to Housing Coalition has put forward a social housing action plan for Manitoba that pulls together solutions based on decades of research and consultation. The coalition is calling on all political parties in the 2023 provincial election to c …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Right to Housing Coalition Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba – 5 Pillars
September 5, 2023 | Authored by: The Right to Housing Coalition
-Click ‘View Publication’ to see the full backgrounder- The Right to Housing Coalition has put forward a social housing action plan for Manitoba that pulls together solutions based on decades of research and consultation. The coalition is calling on al …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
