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THREAD "Heartbreaking" is the only word I can find to describe today's awful 🇨🇦 #LFS jobs numbers: both the scale of job loss, and their painfully unfair distribution. 213K jobs lost in January, back to August levels of employment, unemployment, and participation. #cdnecon ...2
Just like the first wave, job loss is concentrated among those who can least afford it. Part-timers lost all the jobs; full-timers gained work. Women lost work twice as fast as men. Temporary jobs disappeared 7 times faster than permanent. Youth (under 25) lost work 4x faster...3
The racial concentration of economic hardship mirrors the racial inequity of COVID infection. Unemployment among racialized communities is twice or more as high as for whites. 20% for SE Asian, 16% for black & Latinx. ...4
THREAD: Our new Canadian office of @CntrFutureWork is releasing its first major paper today: "10 Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic Must Change Work for Good." This short video summarizes the major findings. (Bonus points if you guess the TV analogy at the end!) ...2
Check out our full paper here: centreforfuturework.ca/2020/06/03/ten…. The paper shows how precarious, underpaid jobs made the pandemic worse. To re-open the economy, and *keep* it open, we have to fix those problems and make jobs safer, secure, and sustainable. ...3
There's an awesome story by @JacquesGallant in today's @TorontoStar: thestar.com/business/2020/…. I tell Jacques this is an opportunity to win some important, lasting changes to improve work ... and protect public health. ...4
Here’s a THREAD with some big news from me and @CntrFutureWork: We are going GLOBAL! This month we are opening a new office in Vancouver, Canada, where we will conduct great progressive research on #FutureOfWork issues in Canada, and around the world …2
Our @CntrFutureWork team in Australia is still working full speed ahead on Aussie labour issues: focusing now on the impacts of #COVID19, the JobKeeper program, IR changes & more. @ak_pennington, @Dan_Nahum and me will keep churning it out with our partners at @TheAusInstitute…3 
With our new Cdn office, we'll now be doing similar work in Canada. We’ll look at how work is changing, and how to make it better. We’ll cover technology, gig work, wage stagnation, precarity, collective bargaining & more. Please visit our website: centreforfuturework.ca …4
