The career advice business is doing well these days. Google “career change” and you get a long list of sponsored ad-links – agencies that will sell you tips on refreshing your old resume, conquering job interview anxiety, or reinventing yourself for the post-recession economy.
Some agencies are geared to modest aspirations, with offers of “interesting [...]
April 16th 2010 No Comments
Crisis & career change
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March 23rd 2010 No Comments
Welding Combo
Today we put online Welding 101, the 3rd in a documentary series about Brian, a former auto worker who has to retrain. I’m saying “who has to,” because if it was up to him, he’d still be a proud GMer. One of the boys at the Oshawa plant. But the Oshawa plant – as we [...]
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March 5th 2010 No Comments
Oshawa’s auto-workers vs. the “Sons-of-Mitches”
Cassandra – who’s featured alongside her husband Brian in our new story Autoworkers at a Crossroads – traces her family connection to General Motors back to the historic Oshawa Strike of 1937.
Her great-grandfather was among the 4,000 assembly-line workers who went on strike against GM in April of that year. Among their demands; an 8-hour [...]
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February 5th 2010 No Comments
An auto-worker speaks
We start a new story this Friday Feb 5 on GDP – featuring a couple from Oshawa, in the Durham region of Ontario – an area that’s been hit hard by massive job losses in the auto sector.
Thanks to Connie Snelgrove and the team at Oshawa’s CAW Community Action for introducing us to [...]
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February 5th 2010 No Comments
De la responsabilitĂ© d’innover
Le XXe siècle est formidable ! Il a donné lieu à la radio-télé-Internet, la pénicilline, les satellites, le ruban adhésif et j’en passe.
Il a vu naĂ®tre la voiture, ou plutĂ´t sa “dĂ©mocratisation”. FabriquĂ©e sur la chaĂ®ne d’assemblage – une rĂ©volution au dĂ©but du XXe siècle – et, donc, vendue bien moins cher que ses rivales, [...]
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