More Canadians Facing Part-Time Jobs, Low Wages
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Published 2015-04-29
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All Comments (21)
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In the 50s and early 60s, a janitor could buy a modest house, have kids and the wife stayed home and raised them.
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Four years at a job and still at minimum wage? That's unacceptable
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Its wonderful that we are starting to recognize and discuss real issues of life. Thanks for the video.
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The real reason why most company's are paying low wages? Greed. It's all about "GREED".
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This is happening all over the world unfortunately 😔😔
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Precarious jobs, precarious pay but the rich just keep getting richer at everyone else's expense.
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Its called a starvation wage
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modern slave
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Damn, I thought Canada was doing well. I would never have thought of this country as poor.
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One day I arrived in a food bank. A woman very lovely asked me. Do you want a soup. I said. I wanna a job. She replied. You are so ambitious. I left Canada for good.
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Millionaires are doing fine. Lots of high end cars driving around.
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The problem starts with " Too big to fail" instead of jail for the fraud banks should have be liable for .....
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I'm 42 working less than 20 hours, thank goodness I don't have any kids or else it would be worse. Sometimes I have to go to a food bank.
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She compared the working conditions in Canada to those of Bangladesh. It's true.
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Raising the minimum wage doesn't really help anyone. They raised the minimum in Alberta, all it did was raise the cost of living. Food, clothing, rent, fees, we are right back where we started. Actually worst, less jobs and hours cut...
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I am Canadian and in the same boat in. 2018. I hope things got better for these ppl.
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Why Canada hands out to other countries while Canadians are struggling. Economy is no.1 goal not the aim of reducing CO2 emission. Canadians needs new leadership.
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LOL...My mother moved to Canada because "They have more job opportunities up there" I said "The grass is not greener on the other side, sure it's a different kind of grass but it's the same color.
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How many times in the last year have you wondered... "What if it happens to me? What if I lose my job?" Who could blame you? More and more Canadians are barely hanging on.
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as a former data entry for the oil & gas , i agree, EI and PT is hard. I feel for her & wish her the best. xo
