BCTF Information Services—Research & Reports

Global Union Research Network (New web site)

GURN has redesigned their web site for easier search and navigation. They have also added "Public-Private Partnership" as one of their important research topics. Here you will find useful information, analyses and current debates, aimed at helping teacher unions and researchers gain a critical understanding of PPPs.

Other topics include "wages and collective bargaining," "poverty reduction strategy papers," and "economic alternatives and poverty eradication."

Resource Guide on Child Labour
International Labour Organization, 2008

The ILO Library has updated its resource guide on Child Labour. This Internet guide will help you find key online and print sources of information from around the world and links to the texts of key ILO publications. It also provides links to ILO Conventions and Recommendations relating to child labour, statistics, and to the IPEC website for more in depth information.

Canadians Support Unions, But Many Think They Are Too Political
Angus Reid Strategies, May 1, 2008 release

Canadians perceive labour unions as an essential part of our society but think they have become too entangled in political activities, a new Angus Reid Strategies poll has found.  In the online survey of a representative national sample, more than half of all respondents think unions effectively improve the salaries and working conditions of employees but many are not at ease with workers exercising their right to strike.

Brisbois, Richard and others
Connecting Supply and Demand in Canada's Youth Labour Market
Canadian Policy Research Networks, April 2008; 63 pages

According to this CPRN study, Canada's youth are not well-prepared to navigate educational and career choices, or to be able to fully use the skills and knowledge they gain through education in the jobs that they find.

Global Employment Trends for Women
Geneva: International Labour Office, March 2008; 36 pages

More women are working than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the ILO issued for International Women’s Day.