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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Jun 20 2011
Union membership has steadily declined over the past three decades, to a current 30.8 per cent of the non-agricultural workforce. The comparable figure for the U.S. is a mere 12.3 per cent. The sharp drop in union membership is cited as a leading cause of the flatlining of inflation-adjusted middle-class incomes in Canada and the U.S… A 17-month strike at Caterpillar Inc. in 1994 marked a turning point in North American labour relations… striking workers eventually returned to work without a contract. Employers have been playing hardball ever since.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Dec 21 2010
I am puzzled about the… identification of “corporate greed” as the cause of social and economic exploitation. It is merely the symptom of philosophical liberalism that fosters an economic practice that privileges self-regarding behaviour, which is expected to lead to public virtue…. by the mid-1970s… the Anglo-American liberal democracies had full confidence that they no longer needed the co-operation of organized labour… [and] went to work in attacking social programs and the right of workers to unionize their workplaces.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
NationalPost.com – News&Sectors – Canadian Banks: A better system
Published: Friday, April 03, 2009. Theresa Tedesco and John Turley-Ewart, Financial Post
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, neatly summed up this week what a growing number of financial leaders are saying about Canada’s banks: “Our system is better.”
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