Re: Cat's Out of the Bag

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> So what issues to library worker strike over?  Time off for paper cuts? 
> Migraine pay for Dewey decimal system work?  ; - )

I honestly don't remember.  And given how union- and strike-friendly this 
province has been, historically (I'm referring to the province as a whole, 
not necessarily to the government), I was kind of surprised that the 
library workers had never had a strike before.

And just our luck, they had it during the year *between* D's maternity 
leaves.  So, after living on reduced salary via E.I. for one year, and 
knowing that she would have another year of reduced salary via E.I. in the 
following year, my wife had to spend a few weeks or months on the picket 
line ... at reduced salary.  ("Reduced salary" might not be the most 
correct term, technically, but you know what I mean.)

What makes this all even crazier is that we actually bought a van *and*, 
after that, a second apartment during that year.  This was in 2007, before 
the bubble burst -- but also at a time when the Canadian dollar soared 
above the American dollar for the first time in decades, which meant that 
my pay, a fair chunk of which came from the U.S. back then, was also 
taking a hit.  And yet somehow we bought our second apartment.  Yowzers.

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