Canadian Labour Congress urges larger CPP

National plan would grow to cover half of current salary

Given the aging demographic of employees in many unionized sectors — primary, manufacturing, healthcare, public service — it comes as no surprise that unions have spent a lot of time and energy on pensions recently. First, it was the fight to save the defined-benefit pension plan. At roughly the same time, many collective agreements were trading wage increases for pension increases.

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