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Thursday, March 31, 2022

Alternative-causation arguments effective at sowing doubt

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One strategy that manufacturers and employers use to delay the regulation of and liability for harmful substances is to make alternative-cau...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

More data on underreporting of workplace injuries in Ontario

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The Institute for Work and Health has released results of a new study that matches emergency room visit records with workers' compensat...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Porter on CBC

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CBC has an interesting new series on called The Porter. It is set in the 1920s (in Montreal, mostly) and follows a group of Black railway po...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Unions positively impact US workers' wages, benefits, democracy

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There is an interesting new study out the US that documents the impact of unions on workers lives. Among its findings are: On average, the ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Alberta hamstrings union dues collection

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In early January, my colleague Jason Foster and I wrote about Alberta’s efforts to hamstring its unions through oppressive union financing l...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Alberta guts OHS rules

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In late December, my colleagues Jason Foster, Susan Cake and Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull and I wrote about Alberta’s efforts to gut Alberta’s j...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

AUPE survey on pandemic needs

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The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) periodically publishes a magazine ( Direct Impact ). The fall 2021 issue (not yet online at...