A two-tiered workforce: the UPS strike signalled a growing push to improve conditions for part-timers
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Opinion polls showed that the majority of people supported the Teamsters Union in its recent battle with UPS to get better benefits and security for part-time workers. Many workers in the US and Canada are fed up with corporate downsizing, especially in the light of record corporate profits.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1997
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Politics for profit
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Financial news publisher Dennis Gartman believes that the economies of both Canada and Quebec would receive a boost by Quebec independence. A team of four US-based finance professionals came to a similar conclusion. Quebec separatists hailed the reports, but their validity is questionable.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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Chapter and verse
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Canadian booksellers kept the retail book sector out of the North American free trade agreement, but this short-sighted protectionism may soon be subverted from within. The merger between Coles and W.H. Smith into Chapters means that US-style chain bookselling has at last come to Canada.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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