Check out the Summer 2025 edition of CCU Connections Magazine, the official voice of the Confederation of Canadian Unions. This is the special issue on housing, and how a national, public and cooperative housing plan for all can reduce home prices and rents, and create good paying, unionized jobs. We cover this issue from every angle. Special thanks to all the writers who submitted articles.
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In this edition:
* PPWC President Geoff Dawe:
Union Wages, Affordable Homes: How Good Jobs Can Help Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis
* YUSA Committee Chair Jenn Ferdinands:
So You’re New to Bargaining: A Beginner’s Guide from the Union Side
* NSUPE Treasurer Shelby Whynot:
A Place to Call Home: Why Modular Housing Could Be Part of the Solution
* CCU President Greg Ball: Rewriting the Rules:
The Necessity of Unions in Today’s Global Economy
* YUSA Vice President Sandy Bell:
Housing is a Workers’ Issue: Confronting Canada’s Housing Crisis through Solidarity and Action
* Stan Boychuk and Kristopher Stevens:
Halalt Apprenticeship Training Initiative: An Indigenized Red Seal Apprenticeship in Community
* YUSA Committee Member Paula Gowdie: Layoffs and Job Closures:
Impacts, Resources and Preparing Oneself
* CUSW Apprentice Cynthia Brown: Finding a Home:
Surviving Ontario’s Housing Crisis
* CUSW Representative Tom MacLean:
CUSW Signs New Agreement to Provide Members Work in Quebec
* PPWC Local 26 Rep Tracy King:
Affordable Housing in Castlegar and Trail: Progress and Persistent Challenges
* Interview with AESES President Rob Parker:
Workers’ Rights, the Future of the Labour Movement, and his Special Superpower
* Michel Labbe and Kristopher Stevens: The Missing Piece:
Advancing Affordable Home Ownership in Toronto (and the Rest of Canada)
