It was all a big sham, I finally saw after working for 11 months as a temporary worker at a warehouse for a global supply chain solutions company. The use of temporary staff was not about reducing costs for the company, either through flexibility, withholding benefits, or lower wages. Nor
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Canadian Dimension Feed: Skilled Labour
He must have walked out, I thought as I looked around our department at the warehouse. In the morning the Lead Hand brought a new guy over to our crew that worked on the brick-load. The brick-load was a transport truck filled wall-to-wall, back-to-front, floor-to-ceiling with computer components from a
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In the window factory we had two routers, the machines that bored holes into the window frames for the moving parts and for the pieces that secured the glass in place. Routering was a simple process for the operator. All the operator had to do was insert one corner of
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