Unionized workers achieved largest wage gains for a decade in 2025
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-union-workers-wage-gains-employment-strike-industrial-action/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
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Can confirm. About to vote a deal that will see wages go up by 25% over three years, with largest amount in year one. There are a host of other improvements besides.
 This is not an outlier. Negotiations, in the provate sector, have seen large increases for a few years now. Cost of living was so high, it made bargaining much easier. That and a huge strike fund to back it up.
 If you aren’t unionized, you are begging.
‘Wage increases for unionized workers in 2025 were driven mostly by gains amongst private sector union employees. The average annual wage increase was 4.2 per cent for this group of workers, and 3.4 per cent for public sector workers, similar to gains made in 2023 and 2024. But average wage increases for private sector workers in the first year of a new collective agreement was 7 per cent, the highest by a large margin compared with previous years.’
Roughly 5.7 million workers (almost 1/3 of employees) are unionized in 🇨🇦
I don’t think anti-union people actually care how much better union workers have it on average, they are morally against unions…for some reason