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Corporate Tax Freedom Day: CEOs dancing in their suites
Ottawa – January 30, 2013 – Corporate executives in Canada will be dancing in their suites to celebrate Corporate Tax Freedom Day on January 30. A research study by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) – called What did Corporate Tax cuts Deliver? – shows that by that date corporations will have paid their taxes to all levels of government for the entire year.
The Feral Rich – the family who controls Walmart among the world’s super-rich
Toronto – January 25, 2013 – Now here’s a puzzle. The world economy is in a fix. Most people are getting poorer. Household income is down by more than five per cent on last year. That’s the global average; in some countries it’s much worse. We need 80 million new jobs to get us back to pre-crash employment levels. And the progress on reducing world hunger has stalled, leaving one in seven people without enough to eat.
How the Walmart Labor Struggle Is Going Global
Toronto – January 24, 2013 – “Workers of the world unite!” says the traditional slogan of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Wobblies, since their founding in 1905, have envisioned a global union capable of waging a worldwide general strike. By its height in the 1920s, the union was capable of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers. But while the Wobblies never fully realized international unity among workers, there is new promise for its vision today — thanks not to a union, but to a union-busting corporation: Walmart.
