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Bargaining beyond the binary: A negotiating guide for trans inclusion and gender diversity features examples of trans inclusive language from CUPE collective agreements that negotiating teams can use to develop their own proposals.

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there were massive layoffs in various industries in Canada. Thousands of unionized and non-unionized workers across the country lost their jobs, in spite of various government assistance programs aimed at encouraging companies to keep their employees on board.

I have been watching recent organizing drives at corporate giants like Starbucks, Amazon, and Indigo with interest. It is inspiring that this charge has been led in large part by young people standing up and fighting for their rights.

Too many working families in Canada are struggling with their grocery bills and housing costs. As the number of people living paycheque to paycheque climbs, more and more Canadians are wondering when the gouge is going to stop. People are rightly wondering why, after two and a half years of a pandemic, it feels like our governments are leaving us out to dry during an inflation crisis unlike anything we have seen in decades.

We’ve heard it throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: while we’re all in the same storm, we’re not all in the same boat. Nothing has made that clearer than skyrocketing corporate profits. Some companies, like Zoom, did better in the pandemic because they were well placed to respond to changing needs. But other corporations have taken advantage of the pandemic to sneak in higher prices.

Income inequality has fallen across all provinces and territories, according to recently released data from the 2021 Census. There are several ways to calculate income inequality. Each of the methods provides different insights. Statistics Canada tracked income inequality in the census data using two of the most common measures: the P90/P10 ratio and the Gini index.

Housing prices, already high across Canada, skyrocketed during the pandemic. Prices rose by more than 30% between the end of 2019 and the end of 2021.