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How Fair is That

MURDER WILL OUT

January 14, 2021 
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CAN EMPLOYERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER? Ariana Quesada thinks they did when Covid-19 killed her father. She thinks the police should investigate. So do the police. This is black-swan-sighting rare.

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BOSSES FIRST

January 11, 2021 
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HOW COME MANAGERS COME FIRST? That’s the question Tullio DuPonti, president of Unifor 2458 had for administrators at the Erie Shores Healthcare hospital in Leamington, Ontario on January 6.

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UNION SPY RACKET

January 5, 2021 
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UNION SPIES ARE ALIVE AND WELL and burrowing away inside Amazon. T’was ever thus.

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BLACKED OUT

December 22, 2020 
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SHANE MacQUEEN DIDN’T EXPECT A TEA PARTY. No more than he expected casual and continuous racism. But that’s what he has faced ever since he started to work in Alberta oil fields 14 years ago.

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Royally pissed

December 13, 2020 
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WTF! That's what I kept thinking as I worked my way through Broken Dreams, Broken Lives, the recent report on life for female members inside the RCMP. WTF! Page after outrageous page.

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TIME TO QUIT

December 9, 2020 
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FACTORY WHISTLES WERE A GOOD THING. They blew to begin and to end the work day. The time to start work and end work—to down tools—was rigid and fixed. Not so now. Now, in the middle of this pandemic, people are working longer.

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SPLIT DECISION

December 3, 2020 
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“IT’S TOO SOON TO TELL.” That’s what the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai is supposed to have said in 1972 when asked who won the French Revolution. The same could be said about who won the recent grocery workers strike in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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COVID FODDER

November 25, 2020 
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THEY SHOULD FEEL LIKE HEROES. But they don’t. The nurses, personal support workers (PSWs), custodians, cleaners and other health care workers on the frontline in the Covid fight in Ontario feel they are being callously “sacrificed”.

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TOO DAMN HIGH

November 19, 2020 
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CANADA COULD USE A LITTLE JIMMY McMILLAN and his The Rent Is Too Damn High Party right now.

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THREE MINUTES TO REMEMBER

November 16, 2020 
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REMEMBRANCE DAY CAME AND WENT in just three minutes for workers at Tim Hortons in Nova Scotia. That’s all the time off the law allows them.

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This Working Life (85)
Talk Back to the Boss (21)
The Ways We Win (191)
How Fair is That (168)
Feed Your Head (26)
Unions Matter (14)
Privatization (15)
Attack Income Inequality (5)
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