maplesyrup Posted September 13, 2004 Report Posted September 13, 2004 Did anyone else get an opportunity to read the article on Canada's Rent-A-cop Industry in Saturday's Globe? The whole industry is a farce. If there ever was a crisis the last people in the world you would want in control of anything are the losers in this minimum wage industry. What is even more pathethic than the low wages, is that a lot of these clowns are uninionized and making minimum wage, or very close to it. So shame on the unions here for this scam of low wage earners. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
takeanumber Posted September 13, 2004 Report Posted September 13, 2004 The union really is a scam though. Getting paid minimum wage AND, AND, lol, having to pay dues. Classic. Quote
maplesyrup Posted September 13, 2004 Author Report Posted September 13, 2004 The union really is a scam though. Getting paid minimum wage AND, AND, lol, having to pay dues.Classic. The problem is very few unions have the balls to confront management. Any security union could cripple the security company if they had the cahones (spelling anyone?). but my impression is that these security adjuncts are a cushy situation for the unions. Their security divisions are usually an add on to say the Steelworkers or IWA or whatever and it just helps the unions to have quite nice digs, and not bad union executive salaries and benefits to boot. Not against that, as long as the people on the line are not being exploited which I believe they often are. How many people here would be willing to work overnights, on their weekends, often threatened with violence, for minimum wage? Not many of us I can assure you! Maybe i missed my calling - perhaps I shoiuld become a labour organizer! Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
Argus Posted September 13, 2004 Report Posted September 13, 2004 The problem is very few unions have the balls to confront management. Any security union could cripple the security company if they had the cahones (spelling anyone?). but my impression is that these security adjuncts are a cushy situation for the unions. To begin with, representing guards presents two major problems to any union. The first is they're broke. They can't afford to strike, not even one day. And the company knows it. Second, they're unskilled, easily replaceable labour. When the local security union was headed for a strike here a few years back the company simply locked them out and brought in replacement workers - which it did very easily. Most job sites which employ security guards only have two or three, so it's not like the individual sites fear picketers very much. In that case the company simply ignored the union for a year. By that time there were almost none of the strikers left, so it allowed the union to settle for about what it had offered anyway.Another factor is that as cheap as they come, hiring someone to work as a security guard is expensive when compared to automated systems. You can pay sixty thousand a year for 1 guard (3 shifts) or put in a card reader to let employees in and out. The higher you raise the rates for the guards the more companies will opt to replace them with automated systems, or simply do without, relying on alarms. How many people here would be willing to work overnights, on their weekends, often threatened with violence, for minimum wage? Not many of us I can assure you!More than enough people who see it as an easy, no skilled job. Especially when the companies generally don't care if you have any intelligence or abilities. So long as you're alive, and you can, sort of, with some effort, make yourself understood in English (or in Ottawa, in English and French)you'll do. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
maplesyrup Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Posted September 14, 2004 I will continue to say it, security is a bad joke. All what is going on here, is providing an opportunity for corporations and their capitalist owners to rake in millions or billions of dollars with little or nothing to show for it. There is not one shred of evidence to suggest we are one bit safer than we were before. This is one of the most massive con jobs ever perpetuated on society. Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
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