Re: Cat's Out of the Bag
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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So what issues to library worker strike over? Time off for paper cuts? Migraine pay for Dewey decimal system work? ; - ) Mike F. ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, March 10, 2011 1:19:17 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Cat's Out of the Bag On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > As far as renting/owning - I sure wish I'd been renting I couldn't sell my >house and ended up being foreclosed - it all depends on where you are, but down >here home ownership is no longer the panacea it once was. I guess Canadians are >the only ones, on this continent, left with a shot at the American dream. Well, I don't want things to sound *too* cozy at my end. The reason we sold the old apartment (which we had been renting out for three years) is because the loss of my part-time job combined with the increased costs of dealing with our son's autism meant we had to simplify, streamline, etc. And if we didn't have a bit of equity left over from the sale of that apartment, I don't know how long we could continue to live on just D's salary. (As it happens, the twins start kindergarten in September, so I'm hoping I can find some work to do while our youngest is in preschool.) Oh, and in the interests of full disclosure: D works for the public library, which means she gets her paycheques from the City of Vancouver -- and, yes, she is a member of a public-sector union. (And if memory serves, the strike that the library workers went on in 2007 was the first strike that the library workers had *ever* gone on. Ever.) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot