<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> This was alluded to in one of those "humor" lists -- in particular, you know you are working in the '90s (or to that effect) if you've been in the same chair for X# of years, but worked for "n x X" different companies.... stuff like that. A cover of a recent financial magazine claims that over 26% of people working for companies are now not employees, but contractors. No salary, no vacations, no benefits, no medical, no retirement, easy to fire.... its like heaven, for the company. <div><br></div><div>So are the unions well-and-truly busted? I haven't held a NABET card for 24 years...<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><div><div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have a friend who has worked for this company and their previously named entities, but he has to change business cards on average about every six months, depending on who the parent company is.</font> </font></font></blockquote></div></div></font></blockquote></div> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Joe Owens</div><div>Presto!Digital Colourgrade</div><div>302-9664 106 Avenue</div><div>Edmonton, Alberta T5H0N4</div><div>+1 780 421-9980</div><div><a href="mailto:jpo@prestodigital.ca">jpo@prestodigital.ca</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>