Opseu union workers who are presently on strike and picketing our community colleges apparently can't tell the difference between their beef with the colleges and the disruption they cause in other areas.
Mohawk College was supposed to hold it's annual parking lot garage sale this Saturday as a benefit for United Way but was unable to persuade the union not to disrupt it. The college, which does not benefit in any way from the sale, decided it was in the best interests and safety of the public to cancel the event.
Personally, I think it should have been allowed to go on and the public could have gotten a close look at how OPSEU strikers behave when they are making their demands and holding the taxpayer hostage. Remember that it's our tax money that pays the bills for our community colleges and it's a handful of strikers who are preventing us from using our own property.
I'm not totally anti-union because I believe they do serve a purpose in making life better for the workers but sometimes their power goes to their heads and they behave like criminals. They either forget or disregard the fact that they are not the only people in the world and that there are others with rights equal to their's.
In a way, it makes sense that if a worker feels he/she isn't receiving enough pay or benefits from their job then they should just go find another one instead of preventing their employer from conducting business. It seems illegal somehow. I can understand that a large group of employees could decide to withhold their services but how can it be legal for them to prevent the business from hiring others to do the jobs? Those OPSEU jobs pay darned well and there must be many people who would jump at the chance for one of them.
Again, I'm not really anti-union but maybe they've gotten a little too greedy and obnoxious and forgotten about the rest of us.
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