A dash of cautious optimism

 Negotiation is NOT hounding someone for crossing a picket line if he (the individual) feels that the current dispute whatever it might be doesnt sit well with him. The taking away of freedom of action is an afront to his liberties, it is terrorism especially when said individual and his family would suffer because of it.

The things that I mentioned are not at all things made up by businesses to criticise unions. How has General Motors or Ford made a profit from seeing Detroit go up in smoke. By your reasoning they closed for profits.? No expenses went up in a society where unions drove up the price, not only for their own workforce but also to compete and compensate their own workers in relation to others in the job market and what they are being “forced” to pay their employers. If Mr X is getting paid $y to flip burgers then Mr Y wants atleast $2y to do semi skilled labour. Now with more money entering the system people sell there homes to what the market can cope with, the maple leafs sell tickets at a price that people can afford, burgers reach a price that the market determines and Mr Y is now earning more so the price of burgers go up. Union for Mr X wants his subjects to get a bigger piece of the pie. MrX’s wages increase as then does MrYs ad infinitum. All the time India, China, Brazil are unionless offering the same workforce for a 10th the price.
Thats life. Unions are a good idea, just like comunism BUT if there is someone who doesnt play the game then non of it works.

Curling season is picking up

No…but he took the Expos away from Montreal and gave them to a buddy.

And it was ’94.

Expos were best team in baseball when Fehr pulled that plug. Many thought they could win it all that year, if they would have, or even had a good run, they wouldn’t have moved.

Duck Dynasty?

You don’t think Detroit’s problem was the fact that they made shitty cars?

Your simplification of basic economic theory is depressing.

Thanks Fehr, for keeping us with more WS titles than Montreal!

Thanks for the correction

Maybe, but the fact that they played in a monstrosity of a building in front of largely apathetic fans had something to do with it.

Chevy and Pontiac was a bit redundant.

My only complaint with my package is that now that I’ve hit middle age it takes longer to drain it. What’s that? Oh, different package. Never mind…

Im not sure how old you are but 50 years ago things where going pretty well. then the US got into the 1st of many wars of attrition that it was destined to lose 

Then in the early 70s you had this thing call´d the OIL EMBARGO where oil went from  $3 to $30 . It turned economies upside down. If oil suddenly went to $ 900 tomorrow would that be organized laboured fault. I doubt it, but someone would try to blame them