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B.C. unions again declare war against provincial workers
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BC unions have ramped up their efforts to increase BC’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. Unfortunately, last week B.C. Labour Minister Murray Coell stated that the Liberal government would consider an increase to the provincial minimum wage. B.C. Federation of Labour head Jim Sinclair cheered the move. NDP leader Carole James, highlighting her pedestrian knowledge of economics, declared that an increase in the minimum wage is “actually an economic stimulus.” If Mr. Sinclair, Ms James, and BC unions are successful, their efforts will rob young and unskilled workers of the chance to participate in the labour market and gain the skills and experience they need to increase their incomes.
America’s Last Bulb Plant Closes
National Review Online – September 24, 2010
Lights Out: America’s Last Bulb Plant Closes
By Henry Payne
Detroit – While the now infamous UAW hooch n’ weed break once again called attention to Obama’s Recovery of Auto Jobs Summer, it also overshadowed the Destruction of Bulb Jobs Summer. At midnight Friday, the last incandescent light bulb plant in America closed — a victim of government rules outlawing the traditional light bulb by 2012.
The superiority of Christian workers in China
BBC News – August 26, 2010
Christian faith plus Chinese productivity
By Christopher Landau
EI system rewards indolence and irresponsibility
National Post – August 17, 2010
Young, able and living on EI
By Jessica Hume
If there’s one thing I learned living abroad for more than two years, it’s that non-Canadians love Canada. They think we’re socialist; so much nicer than our neighbours to the south. The grounds on which these feelings are based may be faulty, but our health care system and relatively low university tuition fees are just two examples that have led to our reputation as a country that truly takes care of its own.
Socialist Obama’s top 10 job killers
Yesterday was one of those days when I listened to someone – in this case, a respected theologically conservative seminary professor – lament what he called the fear-mongering among conservatives about Obama and the left. And he sounds so reasonable in his warning. Then today I read an article from yesterday’s Financial Post, titled Barack Obama’s top 10 job killers, and I’m reminded through a rationale summary of economic issues just how illiterate, extreme and dangerous Obama and his fellow travellers are. There are right ways and wrong ways to be afraid, so some scare-mongering on the right is probably not helpful. I’m not anticipating the end of history, for example. But there is much to fear, as long as that fear mobilizes you to action rather than paralyzing you.
Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda is killing small business
August 8, 2010
NFIB Survey Indicates Small Business Capitulates: “Owners Have No Confidence That Economic Policies Will “Fix” The Economy”
Submitted by Tyler Durden
Child care crises – poverty, employment and the “Pass-Around Baby”
World Congress of Families Family Update: Child Care Crises
Family Fact of the Week: Who’s Left Holding the Kids?
In this rocky economy, when parents get their hands on a job, they want to hold on to it with both hands. But who’s left holding their kids?
Human rights mentality used to scam employer with disability claim
“Human Rights” is a law code that competes with God’s law, the foundation of Western society. “Human Rights” turns justice on its head, both in terms of principles of process and of fundamental justice. Human Rights enables the worst in human nature, rather than combatting it. Human Rights is the enemy of equality and the rule of law. Human Rights is Marxism. That is why the victims of most Human Rights cases are business owners, Christians, productive citizens. The case covered below is yet another example of the danger of Human Rights to Canada’s business owners.
Human rights vs. workplace productivity
Read the complete article here.
The Saskatoon StarPhoenix – May 8, 2010
Employee indolence not to be tolerated
By Howard Levitt, for Financial Post