If you have more information as to demands that are ridiculous... I don't really think that any of their demands are particularly ridiculous. And I can absolutely understand how some of the things they're asking for (or rather, at this stage of the game, demanding) might be non-negotiables. Take, for example, the issue about pay for employees who have been injured while on the job. I agree with the need to have these things in a new contract. However... How is it that all of their demands seem to have becom non-negotiables? Is it not resonable to assume that if you are not willing to give in one area, you must be willing to to so elsewhere? Especially in light of the fact that the TTC is broke? The employees know this. How then can they expect to get everything they want?
...or anything about Mr. Kinnear's tactics that indicates any inappropriate action on his part, I'd love to see it. As for Mr. Kinnear, I think the fact that the TTC began their strike at midnight, on a Friday night with thousands of people already out in the entertainment district (& elsewhere), with no contingency plan(s)... after the public had not only been assured that were a strike to occur, they'd be given a minimum of 48hrs notice, but also been told that the need to worry had been averted (on Monday last)... Well, I think that it was a very politically unintelligent move.
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Date: 2008-04-26 02:13 pm (UTC)I don't really think that any of their demands are particularly ridiculous. And I can absolutely understand how some of the things they're asking for (or rather, at this stage of the game, demanding) might be non-negotiables. Take, for example, the issue about pay for employees who have been injured while on the job. I agree with the need to have these things in a new contract.
However...
How is it that all of their demands seem to have becom non-negotiables? Is it not resonable to assume that if you are not willing to give in one area, you must be willing to to so elsewhere? Especially in light of the fact that the TTC is broke? The employees know this. How then can they expect to get everything they want?
...or anything about Mr. Kinnear's tactics that indicates any inappropriate action on his part, I'd love to see it.
As for Mr. Kinnear, I think the fact that the TTC began their strike at midnight, on a Friday night with thousands of people already out in the entertainment district (& elsewhere), with no contingency plan(s)... after the public had not only been assured that were a strike to occur, they'd be given a minimum of 48hrs notice, but also been told that the need to worry had been averted (on Monday last)... Well, I think that it was a very politically unintelligent move.