“Living Wage…What Could Be Better than That?”

ACORN International Canada

Ottawa The members listened intently and applauded frequently as they were addressed by friends from the Canadian labor movement.  Unfortunately what they were hearing was less a Canadian problem than part of an orchestrated international attack by governments and corporations on basic employment standards and unions. Sean McKenny, President of the Ottawa District Labour Council, …

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Freezing Private Sector Exec Pay

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Toronto Sharing the pain is taking on a new meaning in Ontario, Canada’s biggest province, where there are 1 million public employees now enduring a proposed 2-year wage freeze as part of the Liberal party government anti-recessionary measures, and recently the Finance Minister publically agreed that some of these same wage controls should extend to …

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