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Minimum wage is failing women

April 15, 2015March 23, 2015

Minimum wage work is women’s work: that’s what West Coast LEAF and the Single Mothers’ Alliance BC said in an informative opinion piece published last month in the Vancouver Province newspaper. Here’s a snippet from the article: Women make up the majority of minimum-wage workers. Among minimum-wage workers aged 25 to 54, 70 per cent … Read more

All in a day’s work?

July 28, 2014January 8, 2014

Five years after the global recession that left countless workers without jobs, Canada’s CEOs seem to be doing quite well. In fact, not long after lunch time on Jan. 2, the first official working day of the year, the 100 highest paid CEOs in Canada had already earned $46, 634 — what most full-time Canadian … Read more