Assorted content to end your week.
- Linda McQuaig highlights how attacks on workers are used to distract attention from the systematic transfer of wealth to those who need it least: As long as the right can keep workers envious and suspicious of each other, the focus won’t be on those at the top, where the benefits have actually gone. As Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney noted last week, corporations are sitting on $500 billion in cash, reflecting the growing share of business revenue in recent years that has gone to profits, not wages.
(Labour’s share of Canada’s national has fallen from 65 to 60 per cent since 1990, partly because of policies like privatization and deregulation, the OECD’s Employment Outlook reported last month.)…(W)hile public sector workers are bullied these days, business leaders are treated as semi-gods.
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