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here is much talk these days about the new economy. What does this refer to? In my mind it is not completely new. This so-called new economy has features of the old economy, especially those prior to the welfare state model. The new economy places a greater role on the market as opposed to the state for the redistribution of wealth. In the new economy we see a growing gap and polarization between the rich and poor as a result. The weakening of the importance of the state is also seen in the attack on public services and public sector jobs, for example through an increase in various forms of privatization and contracting out. This means an attack on good union jobs, a good standard of living and established gains through collective bargaining. As a result there is greater vulnerability for all workers, partly due to a rise in precarious employment or, as former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman called it in strike by CUPE municipal workers in Toronto, there needs to be an end to ‘jobs for life’ otherwise known as job security. The new economy is also marked by greater global competition and the mobility of capital that makes Canadian workers, especially those employed in the private sector, more vulnerable to losing production and jobs to competition from low-wage countries around the world. Essentially then, the new economy refers to an attack on good union jobs and the standard of living we struggled for many years to achieve. Not all aspects of the new economy – our current economy are negative. The situation is uneven. While that attack on good jobs and the welfare state is going on we have made gains over time and entrenched key equality rights in collective agreements and in legislation such as protection against harassment, equal pay for women, same-sex benefits and more. But it is these gains that are at risk and under attack.

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