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Working facts                                        CALM 

     * 360,000 Canadians hold down two or more jobs 
     * Three million Canadians work shifts 
     * One million Canadians work Saturdays, and 500,000 work Sundays 
     * B.C. generated two out of every three new full-time jobs in Canada in 1995 
     * Two million Canadians are subject to on-the-job electronic surveillance to monitor their work habits 
     * Women hold 72 per cent of the lowest-paying jobs in Canada and 20 per cent of the highest paying jobs 
 

Union card worth $12,812 

     UCS / CALM -- Union members in the U.S. average $5,241 more a year in pay and $7,571 more in benefits than workers who don't have a union. The average economic value of a union card to the nation's 16 million union members was $12,812, according to the U.S. Department of Labour. 



CLC TOOLBOX FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY 

* Percent of Canada's debt due to social program spending - 6% 
*Percent of Canada's debt due to tax-breaks for upper-income Canadians - 44% 
* Number of Canadian for-profit businesses that paid no tax in 1993 - 63,000 
* Amount of deferred corporate taxes owing the Canadian government (the Canadian public) as of January 1994 - $36 billion 
* Number of companies owing $5 million or more to the Canadian government in deferred taxes - 382

 

 

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