| 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
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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 |