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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Too bad you don't make the call. Your democratically-elected municipal government (wacko mayor and all) decided that garbagemen were worth $65k. If public sentiment was demanding that they be paid less, it would have been the city's perogative to hold firm. They didn't, and from what I recall of the garbage strike, this was what Joe Taxpayer wanted. (And I wouldn't cite teachers and journalists who are paid the same as garbagemen as somehow being "victimized" by the union system. They're unionized, too, in most every case. The market has simply set all three as having roughly the same worth to society and there's absolutely nothing unfair about that.) There's also, to the best of my knowledge, no legislation that prevents anyone from forming a union (speaking in terms of Canada here.) The computer programmers who keep the nuclear reactor's core maintenance software bug-free are more than welcome to form a union, and it would be discriminatory if they couldn't. What they mightn't be able to do is strike. Now, essential services legislation doesn't block unions, it just simply means that instead of striking, you and your employer (usually the government) is forced to submit to a binding arbitration process, and groups that fall under this requirement are fairly narrowly defined by legislation. The RCMP, for instance, operate under a collective contract and are generally quite happy with what they make, but you never see them walking picket lines. You can make the argument that city sanitation should be included under this umbrella, but that's a differnt argument than the one you're making. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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