Graham Cox is a labour union researcher at Unifor focusing on economic, bargaining, and policy in the energy, road, rail, and marine sectors.
Previous to Unifor, Graham was a researcher at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). At CUPE his work focused on economic and policy analysis for the anti-privatization, trade, post-secondary education, utilities, employment insurance, special projects, and organizing files.
Before working at CUPE, Graham served the student movement as National Researcher of the Canadian Federation of Students and chairperson of the National Graduate Caucus.
Graham has worked as a union organizer for the PSAC, CUPE, and the CFS with a focus on graduate student teaching assistant, research assistant and contingent academic staff union drives. This included leading drives to organize academic workers at the University of New Brunswick, UPEI, and Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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I almost hesitate to pass along Fraser Inst. report because people are busy and there is not a lot gained from reading nonsense or regurgitated Conservative Party talking points. But, I figured there is enough room to complain on the Internet today.
The judge's ruling on the robo calls should allow the Council of Canadians and allies to announce victory. This is especially the case when looking at the awards of costs for the case where the judge goes as far as they can to award costs to the Council's side. Also, the comments on trench warfare ascribed to the Conservatives is not exactly a positive remark from a judge.
The Maryland Department of Legislative Services has evaluated the benefits, risks, costs, and feasibility of using social impact bonds as a financing mechanism for reentry programs in Maryland.
CUPE has submitted a brief to HRSDC on the negative implications of using social enterprise funded through social impact bonds to address social ills.
The drastic reform of the Employment Insurance (EI) system brought in with last year's omnibus budget will work with the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFW) to drive down wages for Canadian workers.
The Royal Bank of Canada is trying to replace some of its Canadian workforce with lower paid workers from India, in-spite of posting another banner year for profits. The bank is using recent changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers program brought in by the Tories. The effect of these changes to the TFW program is the driving-down of wages for Canadian workers. It seems that another side effect is the actual loss of good jobs in Canada through the exploitation of workers around the world.
The Conservative government's omnibus budget (Bill C-38) changed much of the way the Employment System will run. Overall, the changes will alter labour market pressures in favour of employers offering low wage jobs. As a result of this bill, it has become even harder to qualify for Employment Insurance. Further, the process of appealing the decision has been changed to eliminate worker and employer seats on the appeals panels. Even before the budget changes, fewer than 40 per cent of unemployed workers qualified for EI even though they are unemployed through no fault of their own.
Our favourite people to point and laugh at have released another ridiculous report. This time complaining that the poor are not paying enough in tax. It is not clear from the Fraser Inst. how people with no money will be able to pay more in taxes, but we assume that they mean for the poor to go further into debt.
