So you’re on strike, I emphasize with the plight of the worker and all that jazz. Heck it must be way hard for you to live on 20 an hour to stock shelves, but hey, I don’t judge.
Here’s the deal though, I’m trying to get to my job on the Hammonds Plains Rd (which pays WAY less may I add) and your stupid cars are blocking everything so I have to walk on a busy road on a blind crest to get to my job. You’re blocking visibility, making an already shitty and dangerous road even more shitty and dangerous, and when you’re asked politely to move you want to cop attitude with the residents? Go. To. Hell.
You should be working for our support, not pissing EVERYONE around you off.
In conclusion – have some common sense, use your goddamn heads and get this shit sorted out ASAP before I’m roadkill. —Cheesed Off
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
Like the ad says – Unions Can Make A Difference. A fact I am reminded of every year at tax time.
Two things that can never be used in the same sentence “common sense” and “union”.
Unions are like onions….peel back the skin and they stink.
oh well, guess when farmer’s stopped making bluenoser’s beep, they just gave up on everything, pity there bud.
It’s this kind of activity that makes all unions look like arseholes.
When I was at acadia during the 2004 strike, I worked on campus and my profs were always cheery when they saw me going to work and crossing the picket line. They’d always wave and say hi. I know this isn’t the norm, and I was pretty nervous about crossing a picket line because my family is pretty into union activity, and I had heard all kinds of stories about people who cross picket lines, but it wasn’t a problem at all.
Point is, unless you’re hampering their efforts (i.e.: you’re a scab for example) they shouldn’t be assholes to you. Unions rely a lot on public support. Any basic industrial relations course will tell you that.
i’m with suckulous, it’s beep withdrawal…sorry mr. blue
I didn’t notice a huge visibility problem. Whenever you crest that hill whether driving or walking you should know to be aware. Where else are they supposed to park their cars? In the Farmers parking lot way up the road where they probably wouldn’t even be allowed? In YOUR driveway? Unions may not be perfect, and not all union bosses are entirely ethical, but we have unions for a very good reason: so management/bosses/supervisors can’t exploit and screw over people working for them. Strikes happen for a reason. My brother doesn’t enjoy walking back and forth continuously in the rain for hours on end and they would all rather this be settled as soon as possible.
Agreed, sodeypop. My dad was a shop stewart for close to 25 years and was an alternate on the negotiating committee for his local, I don’t ever remember him being thrilled over having to go on strike. Strike pay doesn’t pay a whole lot and those on strike do have bills to pay and families to feed/house.
Since I’ve studied industrial relations and am considering grad studies in the field we’ve had a lot of chats about his experiences, and it’s not easy for unions to deal with management in certain industries. While I don’t blindly follow the notion that unions are necessary in all industries, I think they’re very necessary in blue collar industries, because it’s not all about salaries. In a lot of manufacturing and other blue collar industries working CONDITIONS are often addressed in collective agreements, and A LOT of things such as overall working conditions mandated in labour laws for all (unionized or not) have actually been put there in large part from union activity.
Unions are Mafia!!!
I have no idea how no one sees this.
You pay dues for merely nothing!
Look at metro transit. They threatened to strike, to renew the contract with better terms. They complained about security issues and what have you.
Last contract they were going with 3% raise, didn’t address any security issues, and same benefits. New contract, surprise surprise, 3% raises, no securities address and you can’t work 2 shifts in a row without a 4 hour break in between, with same benefits. So I guess they resigned the same contract.
Also I wouldn’t want a bus driver to drive more than 8 hours in one shift. That’s just common sense. So all in all, same contract. Union did nothing!! I do agree with the Original post though. They’re making an average of over $20 an hour. Let them walk miles to get clean water and see how they like that. Farmers employees, you don’t deserve what you have!
I dunno…if I someday can’t get my Farmer’s milk anymore I think I’ll offer them $20 a jug if they want…I NEED IT!!!!
Scotsburn is good too though… what’s the difference? I always seem to go with Scotsburn because as a child my classmate told me her parent’s cow farm’s milk went mostly there. So it’s been nearly 20 years of support just for that silly fact! Ha ha.
And unions are evil in certain situations. My past job was completely bogged down by tons of union bullshit, trying to vie for power, grievances being filed constantly about the most insane garbage. It was awful and created really unnecessary tensions in the office between union employees and management. And this was a fucking OFFICE! Working for the PUBLIC. Doing HAPPY POSITIVE work. Geesh, I’m so glad I’m not in the middle of that crap anymore. It gives you a bad taste, that’s for sure.
The difference between Farmer’s and Scotsburn is the same difference between Coke and Pepsi. To some it’s a big difference, and some can’t tell the difference. I guess I just have a refined milk palette ;D. jk.
All I know is that after talking to some dairy farmers, all they get is 79 cents a litre and in the stores, it’s what a litre? So who really is making a profit here. I’m pretty sure it’s not the farmer.
Bro Tim. I thought the dairy farmers owned Farmers.
as it is, we pay much more for milk than other parts of Canada.
We pay more for milk because it is regulated, just like gas.
We pay more for pretty much everything in NS.
It’s fucking milk, who cares?
For the strikers, they’re allowed to cause a bit of a disturbance, but if they’re about cause an accident, call the cops.
“Farmers employees, you don’t deserve what you have!”
Excuse me? They don’t deserve to be able to feed their family and make a nice life for their children? Ya, screw those workers! And their children! Jackass.
FUCK UNIONS! Every last one of them. 70,60,50,40 even 30 years ago, they were relevant. Now they are ALL a bunch of crooked thieves who want to get paid the maximum money for the minimum work and will strike if they don’t get what they want. They’re a bunch of whiney me-me-me assholes who need to be left out in the cold for a while so they’ll remember what it’s like to get by on their own merits instead of blackmailing their way into a raise.
While this Farmers strike is going on, I’m buying strictly Baxter and Scotsburn.
A disorganized Union? What a bunch of oxymorons.
Milk in quebec isn’t regulated like in NS — $1.99 for a 1L of “Quebecois” brand milk, while the 1L of lactansia (sp?) was $2.59 or something. I think the latter was imported though because the quebecois brand tasted weirdly sickening.
I’ll take NS milk ANY DAY over anything else (though Neilson’s in Ontario wasn’t bad).
“While this Farmers strike is going on, I’m buying strictly Baxter and Scotsburn.”
Well the union did ask people to boycott Farmers. Thanks for the help LOL
Thanks for the heads up sodeypop. I gotta go grocery shopping tonight, so I’ll definitely go back to buying Farmers in that case. Much appreciated.