[Cowperson]

There's a constant ebb and flow between unions and ownership.

Bad management causes strong unions (formation of the NHLPA, the ouster of Alan Eagleson) while strong unions will inevitably yield an increasingly entrenched management (the destruction of Bob Goodenow).

Unions do have a place in modern economic system but they often end up being inflexible and monolithic, unable to adapt to the legitimate needs of ownership in perilous economic times.

It's a symbiotic relationship.

Workers need the concentration of capital provided by entrepreneurs while the latter, of course, need people to employ their strategy for profit.

It's absolutely absurd that workers in Toronto would be able to retain, at this particular moment, 18 sick days a year, accumulating through to retirement. If they get hammered because they're too inflexible and can't adapt to the current environment, they'll have had it coming. The problem for these workers is that their employers are their 5 million fellow citizens of Toronto.

Cowperson