Public Union Arrogance

Quite a few months ago I wrote a piece about eliminating Public Service Unions or at the very least excluding their right to strike. These unions have no idea of how the private sector operates, nor in fact do the management types, if it comes right down to it. In the private sector the underlying issue both sides must consider is the survival of the business that is paying both of their wages but in the public sector this is not a concern at all because they both get paid out of the bottomless pit that is the taxpayers nightmare, no one else’s. These unions in both Windsor and Toronto have the gall to want all of these expensive benefits (work bank) and wage increases while their cities are closing down around them. In good times there may have been some merit in just maintaining what they have but as the world around them is in the midst of a massive recession they continue to march around with their pickets talking about fairness. What’s fair about parents who have lost jobs and can’t get their kids to day care to search for another? How about seniors living on a fixed income who can’t get rid of their garbage? How about the kids that go to summer camp is it fair that they lose out because these inconsiderate union members want to be paid if they are off sick legitimately or not. The solution is to let them stay out on strike until they cave or the government steps in and disbands them (this will never happen). I don’t think the government should legislate them back to work because this works right into their plans as they think an arbitrator will give them most of what they want. Unfortunately this is what will happen so let’s see how serious we the taxpayers are this time by letting them lose weeks and weeks of wages and then maybe they will get hit with a lightning bolt that wakes them up to the realities that the rest of the Country has already experienced. Unions have a place and a purpose in the private sector but they have neither in the Public sector. They could not strike years ago and then the Liberal minded government of the day passed the legislation that makes us all hostages within our own municipalities. There is absolutely no logic to this strike and until people get angry enough to throw out these free spending socialist politicians that support these unions this type of arrogance will continue. Hopefully the folks that disagreed with me in the past on this subject have begun to see the light. Whew what’s that smell?