Manitoba Living Wage Update 2023

December 12, 2023 For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One):  In Winnipeg, the living wage has risen to $19.21 per hour, in Brandon to $15.69 per hour, and in Thompson to $17.48 per hour. In Winnipeg, this is an …

Slashed to the bone: Austerity and Manitoba crown corporations

By Niall Harney and Lynne Fernandez Previously published by the Winnipeg Free Press, August 5, 2023

New report: Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg

by Jack MacAulay and Niall Harney

Provincial Government Austerity Holding Students and Manitoba Economy Back

Previously published in The Manitoban November 17, 2021 By Jesse Hajer

New report finds Manitoba workers more impacted by COVID than nationally

By Saku Pinta

Q & A: Minimum Wage & $15/h Wage in Manitoba

Who earns a minimum wage in Manitoba? What are the benefits to a $15 minimum wage in Manitoba? The benefits of gradually phasing in a $15 minimum wage would be far-reaching: The 5.4% of workers who earn minimum …

Freeze to Squeeze

First published by CBC Manitoba online Saturday Oct. 29 By Jesse Hajer and Zac Saltis Governments have often turned to investments in higher education to generate hope and opportunity for young people and others seeking better jobs and …

Proposed legislation a sentence of poverty for low income workers

By Josh Brandon and Molly McCracken Working should be a route out of poverty, but for some, low wages are a poverty trap. The current minimum wage is inadequate as at $11/ hour, it places workers as far …

Manitoba Youth Crisis Workers Left in Limbo

By Lynne Fernandez Manitoba Government and General Employees Union members at Macdonald Youth Services (Local 221), who provide crisis intervention services to youth and families in Winnipeg, walked off the job on August 2, 2016. This move was …

Inaction Threatens to Stagnate Manitoba Minimum Wage

First published as an editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press July 18, 2016 By Molly McCracken Unless immediate action is taken, 2016 will be the first time in a generation that minimum wage workers will see their wages …