OTTAWA, Sept. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canada’s unions are marking Labour Day by celebrating the hard-fought positive factors of the labour motion and bringing employees, their households and allies collectively in solidarity, united of their dedication to the essential work forward.
“The collective power of workers and our long fight for fairness has delivered the forty-hour work week, pensions, weekends and so much more. Unions have paved a path to the middle class for millions of Canadians,” mentioned Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Today, more and more people are standing up, joining unions and demanding better. Coming together to fight for good jobs with fair wages, better benefits and improved working conditions.”
With employees struggling to afford requirements, as inflation skyrockets and wages lag nicely behind, Canada is seeing rising momentum behind employees combating again in opposition to these attempting to make employees pay for at this time’s affordability disaster.
“We keep hearing Bay St. CEOs calling for austerity and warning about rising wages. But this corporate scaremongering ignores the fact that while corporations are doing better than ever, wages aren’t keeping up and family budgets are breaking under the weight of runaway costs for housing, food, transportation and so many other daily essentials,” defined Bruske. “What we have seen is growing ‘greedflation’ from profitable companies, using the crisis to jack up prices, rake in record profits and drive-up inflation.”
Bruske added that Canada’s unions may even proceed to combat for authorities motion to repair our public well being disaster and tackle well being employee shortages; assist households struggling to survive the affordability disaster; and deal with local weather change in a approach that creates good jobs and leaves no employee behind.
“Canada’s unions stand united in the face of greedy corporations and demand governments make mega-profitable companies pay their fair share and play their part in making sure our economy can bounce back and people can prosper. We cannot solve today’s economic crisis by leaving workers and families behind,” concluded Bruske. “Today we march together in communities across Canada, in solidarity, because we believe in a country where workers have the opportunity not just to survive, but to thrive.”
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