A Word on Unions

Employees of the City of Windsor, Ontario, are on strike. I just read where this is hurting some people who have nothing to do with the union(s) on walkout, as they are impeding the ability of regular folks from getting onto city property, such as the golf course owned by Windsor. This hurts the people who work at the course, as some folks won't wait and consequently take their cash to other courses. So, to paraphrase one of the course employees, "I'm losing money so that people making three times as much as me can strike."

Isn't that how it is with unions? They care not for rights in general but for their rights in particular. There seems nothing wrong with this on the surface. Yet it is precisely because rights so often go below the surface that we need to be concerned.

In this scenario, certain people, in this instance City of Windsor employees, and likely not even all of them mind you, are worried about their 'right' to make the money they feel they're worth. Maybe they are worth that money, yes, I'll concede; that particular is more than I know. But do they have the right to cause monetary harm to those who are not harming them in order to make that point?

They do not. They further do not have the right to keep off of the golf course, even if only momentarily, those folks who may choose to play it at a certain time. When a union interferes with the legitimate rights of others who are simply going about their business they have gone beyond the rights involved in striking and into the realm of the rights of others, and those others have the right of redress.

Whether they are afforded that right is another issue. One, you will note, that the selfishness of the union fraternity shall not consider. Because, in the end, in their mind, in this day and time, it's all about them.

I'm am now not so ready to concede the point that they are worth the money they want.