Is the gender wage gap in Canada closing?
We were making some progress on the gender wage gap, but we lost it all largely due to the skyrocketing salaries at the top end of the scale which are mostly men. Women’s wages are basically stagnant at 83% of men’s overall. Neither the Federal or Provincial governments are doing anything about that. We are pushing for federal pay equity formulations, but this very right-wing government is extremely reluctant to do anything about it. How are young workers faring in Canada – can they get decent jobs, and are they joining unions? Their earnings a lower than a generation ago. They mainly find themselves stuck in precarious work, work that is not full-time, not fulfilling. With Canada’s programs to increase tuition fees, they are coming out of universities and colleges with crippling debt, so with low wages they are a long way from retiring that debt, and getting into buying houses and other goods that would actually help our economy. Young people are not being organized into unions at the
