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IF you want a slogan for a pro-worker agenda try this, 'Proportional representation protects workers".

Workers' rights garner the greatest respect in countries with a proportional representation system according to analysis of the International Trade Union Confedrration's (ITUC) global report on workers' rights.

Proportional Representation seems to impart greatest respect for workers' rights in 9 of the 10 top ranked ITUC countries.

Unions in the UK have massively (75% of I believe) backed proportional representation as a solution to their low score on the ITUC ranking. Countries, like Canada, with winner take all electoral systems score as systemic or regular abuser of workers' rights. Winner-take-all US and UK score worse than Canada on the treatment of workers.

At this inflection point in our history we need to adopt proportional representation to make Canada over as an ITUC pro-worker state.

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