The Toronto garbage strike is really getting, erm, smelly. Public opinion is clearly against the union on this one. There are even calls for, gulp, privatizing the garbage collection sector. Why not? I always say, “You’re not happy? Ok, let’s see how the market values and pays you!” Call my bluff. Ga’head.
This sad situation reminds me of when SAQ workers (Quebec’s monopolistic entity that runs the alcohol racket, uh, business) went on strike during the Christmas holidays a couple of years back. I’ll never forget the t-shirts strikers wore. It read: “Boss, tu ris de nous autres!”
And then they turned around and mocked consumers as we had to wait in ridiculously long lines. What peeved me, while clinging to a bottle of Campari and Averna, was I had no choice but to fricken grin and accept it. I couldn’t voice my displeasure by taking my business elsewhere. Why is the government involved in alcohol or casinos and lottery gambling for that matter anyway?
I digress.
At this point, the streets of Toronto are becoming a national embarrassment.