Not precisely true. Labour regulation has a lot to do with whether you can unionize; and collectively bargain, a lot more private-sector employees used to be union.
That's not only a function of labour regulation, but the shift in jobs to retail and unions being under represented in that space historically; as well as challenges that have to do w/changing workforce demographics.
Franchising and contracting out really complicate efforts at collective bargaining.
That's why California's move to impose sectoral bargaining for Fast Food workers has huge implications.
Healthcare faces some unique challenges......but a lot are quickly resolvable. Practical Assessments for foreign-trained professionals are employed in 7 provinces across Canada. The standards is 12 weeks to approve unsupervised practice.
Ontario is not one of those provinces. We sideline a lot of qualified, competent people in the process.
Never. Accepting defeat and mediocrity is apathy, and antithetical to my nature.
The in-house workers are now as cheap, or cheaper, simply because they changed the size of the trucks they use, reducing deadhead time.
On the other hand...........this resulted in certain externalities on designing new buildings to allow for City-sized waste hauling trucks.
One must be careful about 'efficiencies' and whether or not one simply shifts expenses from one pocket to another.
