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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-07-15 9:58 AM, wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:42:33 -0400, Dave Smith

>> Are those real numbers or are you just bullshitting us again? Your
>> employer contributed $10 to the men's pension and only $5 to yours?? So
>> when it was invested you ended up with a pension based on that $5
>> investment? My employer invested a percentage of my pay.
>
> The employer contributed double for the male, even in the same job and
> that was the reason stated. It was a bad response because I was
> working in an area where most of the women were single.
>
> I also received the same response from CUPE when there was strike
> talk. The union rep said there would be strike pay for the men who
> picketed (it was pretty paltry) and my radar tweaked and I asked him
> if women would also receive it and the answer was no, they have
> husbands to support them

Okay.. Go ahead and I will pretend that I believe you.

>
> I will admit most of those things are better now since the Task Force
> on Women went coast to coast and faced the federal government with a
> whole list of inequities. My younger daughter is Halifax head of a
> national shipping company and she regularly heaves a sigh at 'Let me
> speak to your boss" 'Let me speak to someone in charge' - it doesn't
> seem to cross male minds that a woman could be running that office,
> she daily thanks the male CEO in Montreal for his open mind.
>

Yeah, I can imagine that your daughter is head of a shipping company and
frequently comes whining to you about people wanting to talk to her boss.