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Originally Posted by anti_rice  I think you have it the wrong way around. Companies are bullies and unions are there to protect the employees present and future. yes the strike is to dispute wages and benefits for future employees but if the union doesn't step up to the plate now then future employees will get less pay for the same amount of work. With inflation increasing faster then wage increases how is a cut in wages fair to new and future employees.
Remember the union went on a rotating strike to minimize disruption to your mail. It was Canada Post who decided to lock out it's employees. Canada Post uses it's lock out tactic to make the public think employees are the ones to blame. |
Amen.
Here's a quote I took from another Forum:
Peter worked for Wheaton Trucks in St Thomas Ontario. While working for Wheaton he made around 60K a year. Coupled with his wife’s PT job income it was enough for them to provide their three little kids with a decent standard of life.
Wheaton company left Ontario and is now in Mexico where they pay their workers the equivalent of $0.50 to $2.00 an hour, with less health and safety regulations, less benefits, les... you name it.
It seemed to be a great deal for Wheaton. Wheaton trucks riding on Canadians roads are no longer “made in Canada”, they are now “Made in Mexico”.
Peter took advantage of the EI back to school program. He attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. After two years he got a diploma that qualified him to work as a Developmental Service Worker.
Peter now works 3 PT jobs at three different agencies, with no benefits, no vacation, no sick leave, nothing.... He is making 40K a year.....
Peter is not his real name.... but it is a real story that happened to a good friend of mine.
“Globalization and free trade will standardize wages around the world, and no one will be able to oppose these two giants”. Milton Friedman.
"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Warren Buffett
I am not an expert, I do no pretend to be one, but it doesn’t take much to see that governments, specially conservative ones, act if favour of large corporations and against workers.
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