Unions are winning hefty increases as the Bank of Canada chief warns employers not to dole out whopping, multi\u002Dyear salary hikes. Read more.
Hancock never did become a teacher. But as national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees — the country’s largest union with more than 700,000 members — he represents the interests of tens of thousands of education workers as well as paramedics, health-care workers, airline staff, librarians, hydro crews and municipal employees, right down to the “rink rats” who keep the teenage “hooligans” in check during public skating hours on city rinks.
Those clothes are going to be logging some serious mileage in the months ahead as unionized workers — CUPE’s and otherwise — and those who employ them haggle out the particulars of new collective bargaining agreements in a super-charged inflationary time, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the 1980s, when the annual consumer inflation rate often exceeded five per cent.Article content
“I think you have to put this in the whole context of workers and frustration,” Hancock said. “We lived through the pandemic — and I retreated to my apartment and did my best to help bend the curve — but so many other workers, union and non-union workers, kept going to work. Workers have had enough.”Article content
“It is never 100-per-cent compensation,” Anil Verma, an industrial relations professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, said. “But, historically, if inflation is up five per cent, the union might win a three- or 3.5-per-cent wage increase.”
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