The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85477 Message #1584373
Posted By: dianavan
16-Oct-05 - 10:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: On strike and in contempt of court
Subject: RE: BS: On strike and in contempt of court
The Business Council of BC has told us to go back to work and that we are basically thumbing our noses at the court.
...hmmm - not actually. We're thumbing our noses at an unjust law. What happens to us will effect every union and subsequently, non-union worker in B.C. Since when do union workers listen to business, especially big business? Why do they think we have unions in the first place?
Big business is afraid that we are going to shut-down the provincial capital and hurt business. Well, yeah... thats the idea. If they are so afraid, maybe they should implore the government they put in power, to sit down and negotiate a contract with us.
Appealing to us to return to work is laughable. Accusing us of thumbing our noses at the justice system is just another way of trying to demonize us. We had to take the govt. to supreme court so that we could even be allowed to talk to parents regarding our working and learning conditions.
Do governments think that they can make unjust laws and then expect that we will blindly follow because it is the law?