Garbage workers in Toronto would go on strike every 3-4 years just because they could. The union dues covered workers wages during the strike and workers got paid more after the new contract. It got painful for taxpayers for the workers to continually go on strike every few years. The municipal workers were fired and the contract was transferred to a private company.
A private company that is surely doing a much better job and much more cheaply /s
Add to that that the fired workers had to be paid unemployment benefits and then likely got jobs with lower wages, so they pay less taxes, the standard of living of their kids has gone down, etc.
It baffles me how many people think firing workers making a decent (but relatively extremely low) wage to hire workers earning minimum wage and having to work three jobs to survive can be a win for society, but here we are.
In Sweden unionized workers can’t strike while their contract is in effect. A CBA, which the workers are asking for, makes it illegal for them to strike unless the CBA is broken by the employer and even then it’s not likely that they’d strike. The CBA has a term limit and when it nears the end they renegotiate.
This is why striking is not very common in the Nordic’s but it is in France.
Garbage workers in Toronto would go on strike every 3-4 years just because they could. The union dues covered workers wages during the strike and workers got paid more after the new contract. It got painful for taxpayers for the workers to continually go on strike every few years. The municipal workers were fired and the contract was transferred to a private company.
A private company that is surely doing a much better job and much more cheaply /s
Add to that that the fired workers had to be paid unemployment benefits and then likely got jobs with lower wages, so they pay less taxes, the standard of living of their kids has gone down, etc.
It baffles me how many people think firing workers making a decent (but relatively extremely low) wage to hire workers earning minimum wage and having to work three jobs to survive can be a win for society, but here we are.
In Sweden unionized workers can’t strike while their contract is in effect. A CBA, which the workers are asking for, makes it illegal for them to strike unless the CBA is broken by the employer and even then it’s not likely that they’d strike. The CBA has a term limit and when it nears the end they renegotiate.
This is why striking is not very common in the Nordic’s but it is in France.