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.

Labor relations, Courier services, Express delivery services, United Parcel Service of America Inc., International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Part-time employment, Part time employment

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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.

Quebec, Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science), Secession

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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.

Planning, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Booksellers, Bookstores, WH Smith Group PLC, Chapters Inc., Coles Book Stores Ltd.

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