The Canadian Ministry of Labor reported the major collective agreements in Canada for 2013 which produced an average wage increase of 1.4 percent, compared to the 1.7 percent increase in 2012 and 1.8 percent in 2011 and 2010. This is significantly low compared with 2.4 percent in 2009 or even 3.2 percent in 2008. This reports only agreements with 500 employees or more.
The 2013 data based on 432 collective agreements which include 1 million employees, with durations averaging 36 months. In 2012, 265 agreements were reached, covering more than 700,000 employees and with durations averaging 36.6 months. Over the last years, the average duration of agreements has been gradually decreasing; 39.8 months in 2011, 41.4 months in 2010, 41.1 months in 2009, and 41.7 months in 2008. Private sector collective agreements in 2013 produced wage increases averaging 2.2 mont
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