Civic Strikes: Modern Executives or Employee Reps

Around the world employee unions have served the purpose of working to obtain more rights and security for workers and their jobs. They are also the people working together for the interests of each other as well as their own. Recently, in places such as Toronto unionized workers have gone on strike inconveniencing many residents of Canada’s largest city.

In the past, unions were created to advocate for a safer working environment for workers in factories, better wages, and fair working hours. Today, the rights of workers are protected by laws which require workplace safety standards and include a minimum wage in a local area. With laws protecting workers rights, are unions necessary in the modern world?

In the modern world cities such as Toronto still have to deal with workers unions. Modern unions do not seem to serve the purpose of advocating for workers rights. They are instead similar to corporate executives who want to take advantage of the public and taxpayer money. In a city such as Toronto unions are requesting a pay raise in the middle of an economic recession for jobs as simple as collecting garbage.

It is the willingness of people to comply to end the interruption of services that lead to such “unreasonable” offers being given or accepted. As the individuals of a city we should always request the best services at the lowest possible cost. The taxpayers should not be used as an ever increasing source of income, but as a way to make a fair living in the world today.