By Janice Kennedy in the Ottawa Citizen on March 19, 2011.
Workers were treated abominably back in the dark ages. Pay was inadequate, security illusory, conditions poor, hours excessive, benefits nonexistent. Contracts, if they existed, could be shredded at will by a boss with a change of budgetary heart.
...the labour movement, with gains won over decades of collective bargaining, has brought dignity, justice and decency into the lives of untold millions. That includes those who do not belong to unions (the majority of workers in both Canada and the U.S.) and even those who do not believe in them.
No comments:
Post a Comment