If a union, a subset of the citizenry, causes hardships for the rest of the citizenry by striking, then fuck them. Also, let’s start passing laws to protect the working citizens who are the social fabric of the country, then maybe we could wean ourselves off of paying our hard-earned money to a middle-man who will “protect” us.
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That is the entire point of a strike. Don’t blame the workers, blame the companies for forcing the workers to have no other option.
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The second you wean off the unions, the companies will go 180 and turbo-charge the path back to where we currently are, but worse because there is nobody left to fight them.
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‘We need a way to resolve work stoppages to keep our railways and ports open for business,’ says senator
Pay them fairly?
Stop fucking getting involved!!!
These companies are not negotiating because they know the government will intervene. They ARE NOT negotiating in good faith.
First hand experience here, they never negotiate in good faith. There’s no repercussions for them. If there were, they don’t mind blowing money on fines and lawyers anyway.
After nationalizing the rails and ports. I mean, if they’re that important to the economy, and all.
From what I recall hearing about the job from the one CN conductor I knew, it sounded like what they really need is some work life balance provisions. The on call requirements that guy put up with were nuts.
Yes please. I’m a railway worker. When it comes to arbitration, they reference the wages of the only other railway to justify shotty pay increases. 2 years later, arbitration steps in for them and references our shitty wages are justification to fuck them. We’re in a feedback loop…or a death spiral. Oh, and until it was mandated by the federal government a few years ago, we had 0 sick days, 0 personal days, 0 floater days etc… small vacation only. Very little quality of life. Always travelling, always on call. No wonder they can’t keep employees.
Jesus. You guys aren’t doing much better on authoritarianism these days.
Your internet ID bill. Squelching unions now.Now? This been going on for decades. Governments of both red and blue stripes have done various kinds of union busting both federally and privincially. We still have more unions left than say the US but shit ain’t looking up in the status quo.
Go ahead. Make the NDP’s day.
