Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize

Fundamentally, addressing poor employment quality requires that more workers gain greater access to collective bargaining.

Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize Fundamentally, addressing poor employment quality requires that more workers gain greater access to collective bargaining. Class Struggle by Adam D.K. King November 10, 2025 ∙ 7 min read Photo via Adam Zolyak on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In late August, Statistics Canada released several updates to its ongoing “Quality of Employment in Canada” publication. These data drops include articles related to average wages, workers earning low pay and training participation, along with material covering perceived job secu

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