With inflation cutting into workers’ spending power and businesses complaining of staff shortages, you might think now would be the time for a dramatic resurgence in the kind of labour activity Canada has not seen since the 1970s.
But, so far, people who study the trade union movement in Canada say it’s not happening.
Examples of labour activism in the U.S. — notably among Amazon warehouse workers and at the coffee chain Starbucks — have seen only faint echoes in Canada.
Trying to keep up with inflation
Instead, data seems to show that the workers who are keeping up with inflation so far are those who take individual — rather than collective
