“Shock, horror, dismay, and disappointment”
No, not another story about terrorism or a huge car crash. Let me explain.
British Columbia Ferries Corporation—a provincial government owned operation though as usual I don’t know why—and its main labor union went to binding arbitration earlier this year, unable to agree to a labor contract.
The mediator came down with a decision last week, which gave the union nearly no pay raise for three years, then just 6 percent over the following four years. That’s OK with me, as the ferry workers make what I consider to be a handsome pile of cash and benefits ad infinitum and a handy pension plan for doing work that’s easier than I do and requires less training and education.
The union president, Jackie Miller, leader of the Marxist-like militant union like so many other unions in British Columbia, said her members were suffering from “shock, horror, dismay, and disappointment”, as a result of the arbitrator’s decision.
Wow. Maybe they should change their name to the Hyperbole Union. Or get a grip.
Then, naturally, she called on all British Columbia voters to defeat the Liberals next spring, of course, because labor unions will settle for nothing less than an entire wipe-out of any government that doesn’t tow their line for them personally as they’d like it. Nope. Choose instead a labor-union-obsessed left-wing socialist NDP government with a horrible history of ruining the economy of the province. And this will just have to do for all the people no matter their walk in life—even if they believe in private enterprise and non-socialist governments.
And furthermore, she demanded, “take back our community from the unreal world of globalization and self-serving privatization ideologues.”
Globalization didn’t seem to be a problem for her and her laboring brothers and sisters when they voted 89 percent in favor of affiliating their union with
the International Transport Workers’ Federation—which includes 600 unions in 140 countries around the world. That’d be multi-national! Ouch! Global! Yeeowie!
Since she had a microphone in her face, she also took the opportunity to slam the 2010 Winter Olympics, one of the few positive things that British Columbians can look forward to (I always say BC’s unofficial motto is: “Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t”, and that’s on a good day), with this juicy little already overused leftist
bon mot
in which the sentiment remains the same but only the specific industry-related words change: “Will a two-week sporting event be worth the loss of the public health care system, the public ferry system, the shipbuilding industry, the public education system?”
Ummm, no? But you heard it here first, citizens: As a result of Vancouver/Whistler hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, she insinuates British Columbia will officially end all health care, the ferry service, the shipbuilding industry, AND the public education system. All lost. All of it.
And that’s her story. And she’s stickin’ to it.
No word on whether life itself will continue in BC, but likely not, given that whole
no health care or education
thing—or even shipbuilding!
And by the way, she really dislikes those “self-serving … ideologues”.
With info from Vancouver Sun
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