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Tuesday 29 September 2009
This is what is happening in the US:
"Long duration structural unemployment now represents a record 3.2 percent of the US labor force and over a third of those unemployed. Some industrial sectors have been completely devastated. As of June 2009, 35% of all jobs in auto industry have been lost, 25% of textile jobs, 25% of all furniture making jobs, 15% of semiconductor jobs, 15% of all plastics and rubber manufacturing jobs gone likely forever. All told according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 14% of all high paying manufacturing jobs have been shed since the start of the economic downturn in December 2007."
To cope with this requires a government in Canada which aims at using the power and influence of the federal government to change things, unlike the Tory government under Harper, which Jack Layton's NDP is now propping up.
What is the bigger threat to workers in Canada – the $1 billion of EI which Harper used to buy Layton's support, or the deindustrialization of Canada?
Labels: democratic deficit
