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This Working Life

UNION LITE

January 30, 2022 
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CAN  YOU TRUST the boss to help you unionize? The UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) is betting you can.

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This Working Life

DO NOT DISTURB

January 27, 2022 
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ANDREA SHEASBY WAS DROWNING in work. Leaving the office to work from home didn’t help. She finally had to quit her job to disconnect from it all. A new law in Ontario is supposed to give workers a less drastic out.

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JUST ESSENTIALS

December 22, 2021 
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THE GOVERNMENT OWES US A JOB. It seems like a crazy idea: something only a communist like Che Guevera, or a “socialist” like Bernie Sanders, might promote.Except it’s not.

 

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TIPPING THE TABLES

November 22, 2021 
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IT WAS ALWAYS A LAME EXCUSE: paying workers less because they got tips. Those days will be over in Ontario come January 1. This could reduce take home pay, say some. But not necessarily.

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QUITTING TIME

October 21, 2021 
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TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT are not just the lyrics to a Johnny Paycheck country music song any more. It’s a message more and more workers are delivering to their bosses these days. The bosses are worried. And they should be.

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GET A LIFE

September 21, 2021 
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DEMANDING MORE WORK MAKES NO SENSE wrote Paul Lafargue in 1880. More and more workers are coming to that same conclusion today.

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STAYIN’ ALIVE

July 6, 2021 
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STEVE NELSON MAY BE DOWN but he’s not out. He’s a survivor—a twenty-first century hunter/gatherer roaming the back streets and alleys in Vancouver. “Binning” and stayin’ alive.

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NOT GOIN’ BACK

July 4, 2021 
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WORK JUST AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE and that’s the way to keep it say most Canadians faced with an end to the changes in worklife brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NOT SO MEAN STREETS

June 7, 2021 
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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS has a whole new meaning in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver these days. Teams of dedicated health care professionals are out in the streets taking the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable in the city. The results are impressive.

 

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BOTCHED

May 16, 2021 
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NICOLE GNAZDOWSKY KNOWS THE CRUEL TRUTH. What she doesn’t know is why and how. What else she doesn’t know—and can’t explain—is why she is the one working the hardest to find out.

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