Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
Tag: minimum wage
Pandemic calls for new thinking, as Higgs’s address calls for sticking to course
Fredericton – The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick is pushing the Higgs government to rethink its priorities for ...
Atlantic Premiers can improve economy by tackling poverty
As our Atlantic premiers meet this week in Charlottetown PEI, they have much talking to do. They must discuss poverty, ...
It’s time for a higher NB minimum wage
It is time for New Brunswick to increase its minimum wage. And contrary to the view of opponents, there are ...
Workers deserve better: NB discussing changes to minimum wage and employment standards
Those opposed to changes to employment standards in New Brunswick have recently made their voices heard in the media. They ...
$15/hour minimum wage campaign launches in NB
The NB Common Front for Social Justice, backed by over 35 community and labour organizations, is calling on the New ...
$15/hour minimum wage campaign launches in NB
The NB Common Front for Social Justice, backed by 27 community and labour organizations, is calling on the New Brunswick ...
Reducing poverty is fashionable where equality is unimaginable
Fredericton - An anti-poverty group says the New Brunswick Alward government's poverty reduction plan will not alleviate poverty. The government ...
¡La lucha continua! Hot and Crusty workers’ fight is every New York worker’s fight
Update: On Oct. 25th, Day 55 of the picket, the Hot and Crusty workers signed a collective bargaining agreement with ...
Minimum wage increase delayed again
Minimum wage earners in New Brunswick have to wait again for an increase in their pay at a time when ...
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