The End of Unions?

[coldstream]

The end of industry in Canada will inevitably lead to the end Unions.. and all they gave us.. living wages.. and 8 hour workday.. pensions.. job security.

Once you've reduced a sufficient number of citizens to desperation.. there's no need to deal with Unions. Part of the profit equation on Free Trade is the need for an entrapped, poverty stricken labour pool on which to draw.. that keeps everyone else in line.

That's why Unions have never been able to establish themselves in the Maquilladora Free Trade Zones of Latin America.. that and the fact that union organizers are routinely murdered. It's all part of the our Free Market utopia of unlimited wealth.. for a few anyway.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

The end of industry in Canada will inevitably lead to the end Unions.. and all they gave us.. living wages.. and 8 hour workday.. pensions.. job security. Once you've reduced a sufficient number of citizens to desperation.. there's no need to deal with Unions. Part of the profit equation on Free Trade is the need for an entrapped, poverty stricken labour pool on which to draw.. that keeps everyone else in line.

That's why Unions have never been able to establish themselves in the Maquilladora Free Trade Zones of Latin America.. that and the fact that union organizers are routinely murdered. It's all part of the our Free Market utopia of unlimited wealth.. for a few anyway.

But they'll take care of the rest of us because they wub us.

Still, unions always were an aberration in a society that values property above all else.

 

[Zipperfish]

Union organizers were routinely subjected to violence, and sometimes murder, in Canada and the US too. People forget that the union movement was an existential crisis for capitalism. Communism was on the rise, sweeping acorss Europe, Asia and North America. Violence against union organizers just fuelled the flames, ultimately. The capialists and political elites had to capitulate and allow collective bargaining (despite it being a clear violation of the right to freedom of association).

Now the pendulum has swung back again to favour the corporations.

In my opinion, anyways.

 

[petros]

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Couldn't tell ya, but regardless of that, they don't strike.

For that matter, AB has not had a significant labour disruption since Klein took the bull by the horns and laid down the law to the AB Teachers Assoc

That you know of.

 

[Grievous]

Charter and Private Schools are on the rise as a direct reaction against the quality coming from the Public system.

Sure, lets have a bunch of Muslim schools set up with no regulation.


Freedom!

 

[damngrumpy]

Governments are responding to short term pressure and unions will soon be on
the rebound its a natural cycle. Unions lost ground because they were not up to
date as changing times required that is changing and if the economy tightens a
little more look out. The second wave union struggle in a tight economy could be
a decade of serious interest. I have been both a union leader and a general mgr.
Both sides will always have a place and presence in society