The Vancouver strike is over! Well, sort of...
The garbage men are still on strike in Vancouver.
Odd, since the inside-workers have abandoned labor strife in favor of a settlement. So much for a united front.
Even the parks board workers who are still on strike are only still sticking to their guns on a technicality (Globe & Mail). Almost 60 per cent of those workers actually voted to end their strike. They needed a two-thirds majority to accept a new contract (a unique situation amongst all unions in Canada).
Bottom line: Vancouver can look forward to sharing accommodations with increasingly pesky swarms of fruit flies (The cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving dinner was a definite draw for our little bacterial vector friends).
Just to check, if both sides get to vote on the latest deal, what was the point of bringing in a presumably-objective arbitrator?
Odd, since the inside-workers have abandoned labor strife in favor of a settlement. So much for a united front.
Even the parks board workers who are still on strike are only still sticking to their guns on a technicality (Globe & Mail). Almost 60 per cent of those workers actually voted to end their strike. They needed a two-thirds majority to accept a new contract (a unique situation amongst all unions in Canada).
Bottom line: Vancouver can look forward to sharing accommodations with increasingly pesky swarms of fruit flies (The cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving dinner was a definite draw for our little bacterial vector friends).
Just to check, if both sides get to vote on the latest deal, what was the point of bringing in a presumably-objective arbitrator?
Labels: City Hall, garbage strike, labor strife, Vancouver
3 Comments:
At 10:55 PM, Ryan said…
Mediator, not arbitrator. The mediator's role is to talk to both sides, and to attempt to find unexplored routes to consensus.
In some cases, their main purpose is to propose a settlement that demonstrates which party is being especially unreasonable, usually by hewing very closely to the demands of the other party.
At 11:02 PM, Raphael Alexander said…
I don't know how you managed to survive 3 months of garbage. I also blogged on this on my site.
At 11:21 PM, Jonathon Narvey said…
Ryan, what can I say...
Oops. Perhaps I should invest in a dictionary.
I definitely missed the fine print on this one.
Cheers.
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