No Temporary Solution

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] The “multiple job holder” category is included in our analysis on the as- sumption that if one job is insufficient (from the perspective of compensa- 13 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Reflections from workers in the sector The biggest issues facing our members are: 1) loss of income, 2) lack of and elimination of any guarantee of work, and 3) loss of benefits. [...] As figure 1 illustrates, the proportion of workers with just one marker of precarity has remained relatively stable since 1998, at around 40% of the workforce.19 However, the proportion of people experiencing none of the three elements of precarity we have identified in our analysis has fallen over the same period, from a high of 58% in 1999 to a low of 45% in 2007 to 2010, edging back up to appro [...] It’s important to take into consideration changes in enrolment over this same period; in both colleges and universities the number of students continues to increase.23 Changes in the number of instructors in either universities or colleges (Figure 3 and Figure 4) may be driven by shifts in the size of the university and college sectors, and must therefore be looked at in the context of sec- toral [...] Administration, for example, makes up a greater pro- portion of the post-secondary workforce, although the growth is very small and the proportion is volatile over the time period.25 The data also suggests a significant decrease in the proportion of the sector comprised of college instructors prior to 2012, with an uptick in the proportion from 2013 onward.26 This downward trend prior to 2013 is p