Canada / ‘Young people have been completely betrayed by Canada says Unifor President Jerry Dias

Young people have been completely betrayed by Canada.

In August I think about 60,000 jobs were created, but the problem is of course that 70 per cent are precarious jobs, contract jobs, part time jobs. The worst and the most staggering figure that came out of that is that a majority of those jobs were taken by people 55 and over — and this is August job count.

August is when school is out, young people are working and subsidizing their education. So the fact that those jobs were taken by people 55 and over really shows how much we’ve fallen and it really shows why young people today are frustrated — because they have given up hope.

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