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(CUPE press release)
Regina: More than 600 Regina public school workers from three different union locals gave their negotiating committees massive strike mandates to show their resolve to achieve a fair pay equity plan and wage increases on par with the teachers’ settlement.
The employees are incensed by the board’s general wage offer of less than four per cent over three years and its attempts to find a cheap fix instead of a real solution to gender-based pay inequities.
Poverty is not, as Sachs suggests, an initial state of human progress from which to escape. It is a final state people fall into when one-sided development destroys the ecological and social systems that have maintained the life, health and sustenance of people and the planet for ages. The reality is that people do not die for lack of income. They die for lack of access to the wealth of the commons.”
Vandana Shiva
Ode Magazine
From rock singer Bob Geldof to UK politician Gordon Brown, the world suddenly seems to be full of high-profile people with their own plans to end poverty. Jeffrey Sachs, however, is not simply a do-gooder but one of the world
