It makes me a bit sad I'm afraid. Many workplace struggles over the last century made improvements for the organized, and those benefits eventually were passed on to all workers. Workplace safety and improvements in hours of work were at least as important as gaining fair wages and job sequrity. Today organized labour is in a constant struggle trying to maintain what was won in earlier times and it is a losing battle. Greedy corporations moved so many jobs to the far east seeking sweatshop wages that the hurt is being felt by almost all.    CEO's earn obscene wages as workers suffer, if they have a job at all. Free Trade and the so called global economy is killing us. Even prosperous places like Alberta are in trouble because they are selling out precious resources below value to maintain their boom. Neither governments or corporations value the worker as they both seek to fleece him of his last dollar. It is not a good time for labour!