Interesting Public Union Tactic

Screen grab from Times Colonist

It seems that nowadays the public sector are the only employees able to stamp their feet and insist the rest of us need to cough up more dough so they can maintain their standard of living.

When a public sector union goes on strike and holds the general population at ransom to meet their demands you'd be forgiven for getting just a little peed off if you have just taken a wage cut in order to hang onto your job. A student up to their ying yang in debt trying to prepare for what the current economic future may hold might find it hard to sympathize with labour disputes by those who already enjoy a high living standard.

The public sector is one that has been pretty well insulated from the 'pain' many regular folk have had to endure since the meltdown of '08 and the ensuing uncertainty. For example in Nanaimo, at city hall there are over 150 employees who are earning anywhere from two to five times the average household income in Nanaimo.

When a public sector union goes on strike against their employer, a fact seemingly lost is that the general tax paying public is the employer being struck against. Not some fat cat industrialist who is building an empire on the backs of over worked and under paid employees working in horrendous conditions someplace.

Pissing off the people who are paying your wages seems like a questionable union tactic but is exactly what will be happening next week in Victoria as the unions once again hold their wage paying customers to ransom so they may fatten up their pensions and squeeze more from a public purse that arguably has been empty for years.

Hark ....... is that CUPE I hear warming up????