Did everyone forget that the Bank of Canada announced 'Canadians must accept a lower standard of living'? or the fact their 'sovereign wealth fund' idea is literally tax payer funded via debt? or their plan to 'attract' 1 trillion in investment (read as 'private equity coming in and reaping Canadian resources while we give them very favourable terms'). Gee, I wonder why they want to union bust.

This government has forgotten what a general strike is. On the other hand, unions today are so pathetically weak that they can't even stand up for each other.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah my wife was in a union, she brought a grievence against the employer, when she got to her scheduled meeting the union rep and the employer already had a meeting without her and dismissed it without her getting a resolution.

If the union is in kahootz with the employer then basically your are just paying union dues to support a nothing role for the staff of the union...useless.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

That's a symptom of the same problem of union weakness. If it were easy to unionize and hard to bust we'd have higher union density, like we used to have and unions would be strongly representing their members, like they used to. Or else members would rip the leadership, or form another union. When forming a union is hard and busting is easy (various curbs on right to strike being busting strategy), people try to hold onto the little leverage they get from their less than effective, employer-compliant union because it's often better than having no union, instead of challenging the union leadership internally to do its job.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

general strike

No longer possible. Too many Canadians live paycheck to paycheck, they can't survive the time it would take to force government action against business.

[–] GodofLies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You've proven my point that our unions in Canada are pathetically weak. Sweden's, for example, strike for each other or make it painful for companies/businesses to conduct unfavourable labour practices.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

No no no. You don’t understand. People have nothing to lose cause it’s all been taken away.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It'll become possible during the next major crisis when unemployment jumps to (higher) double digits. Unemployed people have lots of time on their hands.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unemployed people cant strike.

[–] GodofLies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Sure - but a large number of unemployed, broke and hungry people are going to be very desperate. I believe the saying goes something along the lines of - "every government is just a few meals away from collapse".

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Brain fart. Meant protest/disrupt.