As most of you know, the Canadian Auto Workers union were negotiating to save the jobs at the Caterpillar plant in London, Ontario. Negotiations went so well that Caterpillar shut down the plant and moved the production to Indiana where workers were willing for work for 50% less. Say whatever you want to say about [...]
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What does it mean to be “working poor”?
From an editorial in the Guelph Mercury Consider the case of a Guelph-area single parent of two children, working a minimum wage job. If this parents works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, their annual salary (before tax) works out to be $21,320. This falls below Canada’s low-income cut-off, the income threshold below [...]
We’re #2
According to the Star Phoenix Saskatchewan will surpass Ontario this year as Canada’s second-wealthiest province as measured by living standards, the result of a recession that has shown no mercy on the country’s industrial heartland, according to an independent analysis issued Tuesday. So how is it happening? For its part, Saskatchewan’s ascent is attributed to [...]
