Not sure of where you got this, Arthur. I believe each regional PSAC assesses the advantages of each party's platform to its purposes during election campaigns. If PSAC favours the PQ in this election then it must have something to do with how labour would fare under a PQ government and not because of the PQ's stand on sovereignty.
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Arthur Cordell To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: Whither unions? And then there is this. The largest federal workers union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, has endorsed the Parti Quebecois in today's Quebec election. Do you believe the federal government should employ staff who support Quebec sovereignty? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 12:59 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] Fw: Whither unions? Interesting article by Bruce Cheadle in today's Ottawa Citizen on the state of unions in Canada: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/opportunity+union+revival/7184414/story.html Some quotes: Figures from Statistics Canada suggest the labour movement in Canada is in a 30-year decline. And while numbers have stabilized in recent years, organized labour is surviving but not thriv-ing - and anchored disproportionately in the public sector. Just less than 30 per cent of the workforce - some 4.3 million employees - was unionized in 2011, a slight increase both in percentage and absolute numbers over 2010. But the public sector, including civil servants, Crown corporations, schools and hospitals, dominated. More than 71 per cent of the public sphere was unionized, while in the private sector that number plummets to 16 per cent. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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