RE: RE: RE: The Future is Friendly indeed!Techperson, that was some sermon you gave us, but it is time to come down from your Union pulpit!
''Make further gains on the backs of others" you say - well that Union mantra is so Darwinian and out of date!
And let's examine that a bit. Since you are going to hang up your hat soon it is a safe bet that you too have lots of investments, either directly or via mutual funds or your pension funds. There is no escaping this. Thus you are the classic absolute hypocrite since you too will be wanting to have your investments continue to do well and pay out dividends!
You see Techperson the way things really work is that all of us - you as the investor, the company, and the workers - are all in the same boat together. And this is the part the Unions typically fail to accept - that they have a very large part to do with determining how well all three parties fare. We all shall sink or swim together.
So when we see on this board you and Sysaphus regularily extolling the virtues of and bragging about how many ways the workers can screw Telus management and still get paid huge wages for basically putting out as little actual productive work as possible - well this entrenched attitude certainly is, and will be, totally counter productive in that Telus management will always have to respond to the failing fortunes of the company by making ever more staff cuts and out sourcing.
On the ''backs of others'' as you put it. But it is OK for the Unions to make their gains on the backs of companies and their investors eh?
To re-iterate, until the Unions accept that they, by their wage and contract demands, have a huge say in the success or failure of Telus and thus how many well paid jobs Telus can maintain, nothing much will change. However, as the auto worker unions have found out, there will eventually be a day of reckoning when years of excessive wage and contract concessions come back to bite the Union workers and pensioners in a brutal way.