Hm, gotta disagree with you some on this one. Having lived through union negotiations (and a 6 week strike) in my work before, I gotta say that it looks to me like the deal agreed to is pretty conservative and largely in favour of the city rather than the unions.
The one thing that really pissed me off during the strike is I never saw any city councillors out picking up trash or running summer programs for kids - in any other sector, management usually has to step in to fill needs left by striking workers.
I fail to see how something that basically gives the Union everything that they wanted {with the exception of taking away the sick bank for the imaginary workers that haven't been hired yet} is in favor of the city.
Curious then ... (not trolling .. at least not intentionally)themonkeymafiaAugust 4 2009, 13:14:04 UTC
what is your positiong when times are good are unions are getting quite a bit less than everyone else?
ie: myself. I work for the feds in IT. When times were *really* good, salaries went up big time in the private section, while ours was only going up at about inflation (~2%). Now that times are (getting) bad, we still get 2%.
And fwiw ... things like sick banks are negotiated when the "other side" cries "I'm broke!" and gives a non-monetary benefit. They're the ones that are in essence stealing from tomorrow to pay for today.
and fwiw part deux: while I am unionized, there are plenty of unions I don't like and they way the negotiate. Most of them begin with "C".
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The one thing that really pissed me off during the strike is I never saw any city councillors out picking up trash or running summer programs for kids - in any other sector, management usually has to step in to fill needs left by striking workers.
But hey, we all gots our own opinions.
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ie: myself. I work for the feds in IT. When times were *really* good, salaries went up big time in the private section, while ours was only going up at about inflation (~2%). Now that times are (getting) bad, we still get 2%.
And fwiw ... things like sick banks are negotiated when the "other side" cries "I'm broke!" and gives a non-monetary benefit. They're the ones that are in essence stealing from tomorrow to pay for today.
and fwiw part deux: while I am unionized, there are plenty of unions I don't like and they way the negotiate. Most of them begin with "C".
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