Not exact matches
Canadian unions have begun flexing their muscles
in areas previously outside their range — standing up for non-unionized temporary foreign
workers at Tim Hortons
in B.C. and even, through Unifor, the
country's largest union, opening a form of membership to everyone from part - time
workers to the
unemployed.
Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household
workers, most people who live
in Third World
countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm
workers,
unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.
The list becomes longer every day: the landless farmers
in Brazil, salaried
workers and the
unemployed in some European
countries, trade unions uniting the vast majority of salaried
workers (such as
in Korea or South Africa), the young and students encouraging the people of the towns (like
in Indonesia), all are involved
in the struggle.
«Looking only at OECD member
countries in 1993, officially there were 37 million
unemployed workers in 1996.
While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or
unemployed)
workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies
in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British
workers to go to the post-2004 EU
countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.
Social
Workers under the umbrella of Nigeria Association of Social
Workers (NASoW) have applauded the Federal Government over the proposed payment of 5,000 monthly stipend for
unemployed youths
in the
country.
They tell us to blame the
unemployed, the disabled, public sector
workers, Trade Unions and immigrants for the state the
country is
in and time and again, people fall for it and still end up questioning why their lives continue to stink, whilst looking for another demographic to blame for their plight.
A future
in which the U.S. is no longer the high - skill
country and
in which other
countries increasingly are the innovators does not mean that U.S.
workers will be
unemployed or that they will do only menial jobs.