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:: Thursday, September 02, 2004 ::
More women in organized labour By JIM BROWN, CP
OTTAWA -- If you think of a unionized worker as a guy in overalls, with grit under his fingernails and a lunch bucket in his hand, think again. The face of organized labour in Canada is increasingly a woman's face and her workplace is more likely an office, classroom or hospital than an industrial shop floor.
Women accounted for 48 per cent of the unionized employees in the country in 2003, up from just 12 per cent in 1977, Statistics Canada reported yesterday.------------------------------------------- posted 5:27 AM :: reference link ::
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