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Whenever journalists report on labour disruptions — strikes or lock-outs — they ought to tell us what current salaries are. How can the public come to any view about the disruption in the absence of such key information?
In recent weeks, #CBCradio has reported on a lock-out at the #PortOfMontréal and a strike by #CanadaPost workers. If the mean salary is $30 000, my sympathies would be with the workers; if the mean salary is $300 000, I'd be sympathetic to their employers. I presume the salaries in those two cases are somewhere in between, but I don't know.
@mpjgregoire "[The Port of Montreal] says the offer would bring the total average compensation package of a longshore worker at the Port of Montreal to more than $200,000 per year at the end of the contract."
Not sure what is included in compensation though. Pension? Insurance?
From: https://globalnews.ca/news/10860553/montreal-dockworkers-final-offer-lockout/
@mpjgregoire I can't find the Canada Post salaries...I'm assuming they are lower.
@keithzg Fair enough, such cases exist. I think money is normally a central concern though
It's certainly not the primary concern of the bargaining the teachers in Alberta are doing right now.