Some people say you can’t fight city hall or buck the boss. In a democracy, this isn’t true. You can & this is what unions were initially meant to be for. Nowadays, it’s all about the all mighty dollar and workers who are unionized have become lazy, abusive with their so call union rights and could care less about the fact that every time they walk out to protest what they call unfair treatment by their employers, it cost the other hard working Canadians more tax dollars for their greed.

It makes me laugh when I hear any of our levels of government make election promises to have more money hear more money there, when we all know that a large % of that is to prepare for incoming walkouts by some of these over payed and under work employees.

You can all go on saying the Union is there in case your company or department merges, or is acquired by someone else. New management then moves in and decides you’re through. They want younger employees; it’s the new company policy, or they want more efficient production and are installing some new automated equipment that eliminates the need for your job.

As part of a union, you have all of the following at your disposal, negotiators, lawyers, research specialists, and others who specialize in the arts of collective bargaining. You then try to convince every other hard working Canadian that, it’s all about peace, prosperity, security and dignity but nothing to do with money. For Christ sake, I don’t even think that the NHL Player Association, have that much ammunition at their disposal.

One of your listeners commented on why the goverments of all levels would allow someone from different provinces to make less money doing the same job. What he’s missing here is that, everytime unions end up settling for more money, then it becomes a roller coaster for other members and this creates a bargain chip that eventually gets out of hand.

It’s extremely hard to justify why someone who does the same job as someone who is not part of a union and getting paid 50% more. As an example that’s been used in many radio calling is “A person working at the NSLC who is behind a counter, someone brings them the product, they scan it, put it in a bag, take the money and wishes them a good day VS someone who works at a Grocery store doing the same thing but working 5 times harder gets paid 50% less.

Unions are getting to expensive for the average hard working Canadians to support.

Joseph Gallant
Dartmouth NS

Back in 93 there was a plan that was committed and signed by the federal government to purchase new helicopters to replace sea kings. History proves that this was a great decision.But there was a federal election shortly after the helicopter project was signed and Canadians not realizing what was good for them put the mediocre liberals back in power knowing they would cancel the deal. So now 15 year later we should remember everytime we laugh at the sea kings we are actually laughing at ourselves because we voted for the sea kings.