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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I understand your frustration with the situation but I don’t understand why you put so much blame on the striking workers and no blame on their employer who were more interested in trying to lobby the government into giving them a get out of jail free card rather than do the right thing and treat their employees with respect.
Workers don’t go on strike for the fun of it. As much as you might think it’s selfish that other people’s lives are being disrupted by their actions, their lives are being disrupted even more so because they are losing almost all of their income right now. If a deal gets done within a few days I hope you’ll change your tune because that same offer could have been made before the dispute began to avoid all of this, but unfortunately the workers can’t accept an offer until it’s been made.
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I don’t think anyone who doesn’t know the details should pick sides. In labor disputes its often not black and white. For example WJ supporters are saying the offer from WJ would have made them the best compensated in industry.
All I am saying is its often sound bites we get, and our bias shows big time. The government medaling in this without doing a proper (read incompetent) job was a catalyst here. They seem to have made the union and WJ unhappy and created this mess.