I think I have a bad case of the pressman blues, and who can blame me, here is my gripe.
When I came to Canada 11 years ago I was making 36 bucks and hour, pretty good money you will agree, and somewhere near the top of the scale for a first pressman, now 11 years later I am doing the same job, albeit for a different company, and now I am down to 28 bucks an hour.
If you factor in the cost of living pay rises that most people enjoy at around 2.5% a year, I am now earning, in real terms about 40% less than I was in 2000.
I am not very competent at economics, but I sure would like to know how the price of everything, well not everything, but the basic living essentials, can go up so much, yet wages can fall so dramatically.
I am just a whiner, or are lots of other folk in the same predicament?
When I came to Canada 11 years ago I was making 36 bucks and hour, pretty good money you will agree, and somewhere near the top of the scale for a first pressman, now 11 years later I am doing the same job, albeit for a different company, and now I am down to 28 bucks an hour.
If you factor in the cost of living pay rises that most people enjoy at around 2.5% a year, I am now earning, in real terms about 40% less than I was in 2000.
I am not very competent at economics, but I sure would like to know how the price of everything, well not everything, but the basic living essentials, can go up so much, yet wages can fall so dramatically.
I am just a whiner, or are lots of other folk in the same predicament?