Trade workers strike

Thanks...I had a major brain-fart this morning...

St Norberter wrote:

Miz point wrote:I did not get that drift. A person is remarking that he has to travel out of province in order to receive a decent trades wage...sounded to me like the worker was not of the ilk who love to jump around from job to job. He did not sound happy and St. Norberter came across as a tad catty as in take your lumps cuz you be a plumber, too bad buddy sort of scenario....JMO.

No, I was implying that the individual did not understand that wages vary from province to province and that in some cases and careers if you want to make more money you move to another province. That's the way the system works. Sounded to me like he was suggesting that wages should be the same across the country, which due to various cost of living differences isn't right.

aha! thank you!

These unionized people should work 40 hours per week, like the vast majority of us do. Hire more plumbers and welders to take up the slack. Just think, more people to pay union dues. With all the extra employees there should be no cost over runs or delays of scheduals.
They make a sh1t load of $$ why would they need anything more than a cost of living increase? Which would be about 1% per year. Anything more is just crazy, Or they can bring in performance bonuses, but wait that would not work in a union setting as they are only as good as the weakest link. Why would they work any harder than the laziest member?

LivingDead wrote:These unionized people should work 40 hours per week, like the vast majority of us do. Hire more plumbers and welders to take up the slack. Just think, more people to pay union dues. With all the extra employees there should be no cost over runs or delays of scheduals.
They make a sh1t load of $$ why would they need anything more than a cost of living increase? Which would be about 1% per year. Anything more is just crazy, Or they can bring in performance bonuses, but wait that would not work in a union setting as they are only as good as the weakest link. Why would they work any harder than the laziest member?

You do realise that not every type of job lends itself well to throwing more labour at as the solution right? If these guys are on a job site where there's only physically room for 3 plumbers to work at the same time there's no way your going to be able to do the job any faster by adding 1 plumber or 10 plumbers. Your going to be paying the extra's to stand around and watch. You make it sound as though every union worker get's to decide how much overtime they put in. Get real. If that were the case I'd be working 60 hour weeks every week year round.

Secondly, do you really believe that anything over a cost of living increase is crazy? To settle for wage stagnation is crazy is my opinion. Since when did it become the goal during ones career to earn no more than the previous year during one's lifetime? It's this BS thinking that one should just be happy to have a job that has led to the lack of household income growth over the last few decades. Thank god at least some of us have the common sense to aim for more. Your employer must LOOOOOOVE you if you go in expecting nothing more than a 1% increase from last year.

Unless of course your line of thinking only applies to others who you feel are less worthy than you to enjoy the fruits of their labour. In that case your just a hypocrite.

I'm tired of hearing all the BS that every union worker is a lazy SOB. I see the exact oposite at my work place from 90% of my coworkers. The 10% that are lazy bastards eventually get themselves tossed one way or another. The only difference over a non-union shop is that half that 10% would somehow weasel their way into management in most non-union workplaces I've worked at.

Well said!