At CUPE we agree with the Fraser Institute's suggestion that we should to have a conversation about wages and inequality. However the real inequality problem lies not between middle class public and private-sector workers, but between regular Canadians and the rich CEOs the Fraser Institute works with.

Further, the...

For the past two decades, Canadian governments and Bay Street financiers have been conducting an ideological experiment on our economy. Their hypothesis: The only option to manage government finances is to cut public spending and drastically reduce tax revenues.

For a select few, this experiment has been an overwhelming success....

European trade negotiators are in Ottawa this week to continue talks with their Canadian counterparts toward a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). According to most accounts, the negotiations are winding down with differences in only a few areas. In Davos last week, at the World Economic Forum,...

It takes a baffling level of arrogance to claim to be acting in the best interests of Canadian workers while relentlessly dismissing, belittling, and attacking unionized workers across Canada.

Arrogance, however, is a trait far from rare among Harper Conservatives, who are spending an inordinate amount of time and...