Comments on: Who signs the cheques, who’s got the keys? http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/who-signs-the-cheques-whos-got-the-keys/ Chris Lawson's personal website Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:11:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/who-signs-the-cheques-whos-got-the-keys/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Josh Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:54:06 +0000 http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/801#comment-651 The final solution to the problems you have mentioned is to rebuild the IWW and complete the historic mission of the working class to abolish capitalism that Joe Hill and his contemporaries did so much to promote a hundred years ago. www.iww.org The final solution to the problems you have mentioned is to rebuild the IWW and complete the historic mission of the working class to abolish capitalism that Joe Hill and his contemporaries did so much to promote a hundred years ago.

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]]> By: Matt http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/who-signs-the-cheques-whos-got-the-keys/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Matt Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:54:49 +0000 http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/801#comment-522 I came for the Algonquin park trip reports (very informative, by the way) and was pleasantly surprised by the thoughtful political commentary. People often forget, whether out of ignorance or ideological convenience, why it is that strikes happen in the first place. After decades of neoliberal pressures eroding the hard-fought gains in the manufacturing sector and the impending assault on the long-defended gains of public employees, workers are being pushed to the brink. Inequality in Canada has reached the point where many people can barely afford to survive, let alone move up the social ladder. Those individuals overhelmingly hold positions in the non-unionized low-wage service or non-profit sector. Attacks on an already low union density in the name of "freedom of movement" and "efficiency" are certain to lead to the same decline in wages, and this of course is what unions and their members are struggling against right now. Of course, the ideologues forgot to mention that the freedom and efficiency they have promised really only accrues to those who sign the cheques, as you put it. I came for the Algonquin park trip reports (very informative, by the way) and was pleasantly surprised by the thoughtful political commentary. People often forget, whether out of ignorance or ideological convenience, why it is that strikes happen in the first place. After decades of neoliberal pressures eroding the hard-fought gains in the manufacturing sector and the impending assault on the long-defended gains of public employees, workers are being pushed to the brink. Inequality in Canada has reached the point where many people can barely afford to survive, let alone move up the social ladder. Those individuals overhelmingly hold positions in the non-unionized low-wage service or non-profit sector. Attacks on an already low union density in the name of “freedom of movement” and “efficiency” are certain to lead to the same decline in wages, and this of course is what unions and their members are struggling against right now. Of course, the ideologues forgot to mention that the freedom and efficiency they have promised really only accrues to those who sign the cheques, as you put it.

]]> By: Derek Blackadder http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/who-signs-the-cheques-whos-got-the-keys/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Derek Blackadder Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:00:47 +0000 http://cmkl.ca/2009/07/22/801#comment-509 Exceptionally well-said. Exceptionally well-said.

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