溫哥華又要臭氣衝天
(2007-07-19 23:55:19)
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溫哥華市屬的室外員工又要罷工,將沒人收垃圾清髒水通廁所,溫哥華又要臭氣衝天。
五年前,溫哥華市府的室外員工要求增加工資,連續罷工兩個月,沒人收垃圾,沒人清理街道,到處臭氣衝天。嚇跑了觀光客,嚇跑了投資人,也嚇壞了勞苦市民。
如今他們的合約到期,又要開始工資談判。市府的提案五年漲幅14%,和上次的合約漲幅一樣,可這與工會的新要求“五年漲幅29%”相去實在太遠---折一半!根本談不攏,工會終於今天宣布開始“試驗性罷工”-----工會頭子說得明白:先預熱,繼續基本服務,但不加班。就是要逼你市府按期坐回談判桌,遵循我工會的方案。否則嘛,我全麵罷工,你就等著你市府的運作癱瘓吧。
說來這些工會的人也實在太無賴,獅子大開口,貪得無厭。我們早就看夠了教聯工會動不動罷工以孩子的教育為要挾的那種貪婪嘴臉。你說這些室外清潔工敢要29%的漲幅,不是瘋了,就是貪得糊塗了.....
其實,工會提漲幅29%的數字是有來曆的。上個月,溫哥華的市議員開會,自己給自己通過了一個決議,所有議員未來五年的工資漲幅29%。多少市民有氣有恨我沒統計過,反正是市民自個選的議員,是自個把好端端的一個家交到了這些烏七麻八的議員手上。到頭來市民自個沒了監督牽製議員的手段,任憑這些貪婪蟲自個給自個高幅漲工資。
好了,你選的議員,你無話可言。現在人家市府員工也有樣學樣,全部要求漲幅29%,跟這些代表市府資方的黑心議員看齊,你沒轍了吧?這一次,你市民怎麽罵人家工會?----真是上梁不正下梁歪。天下掌權的人都一樣,有權不用過期作廢。人不為私囊,天銖地毀滅。
在我執筆的當下,市府室內員工工會以83%的高比數同樣否決了市府提出的14%的加薪方案,今晚也宣布,從明個起也加入室外員工的罷工行列。
還有,說是北溫哥華市的室外員工,和溫哥華市的室外員工同屬一個工會,他們也會加入罷工行列。好戲開鑼了,這次一定非常難收拾:
---- 你市民選出的溫哥華市議員們給自己未來五年的工資漲幅29%,已成了定案。
---- 你市民也默認了他們的漲幅。
---- 市府工人要求看齊。你市民怎麽反駁?
---- 你若答應了工人的要求,那就是每年漲幅5.8%, 哪來的這些錢讓他們揮霍享受?
---- 你溫哥華的工人漲了29%, 隸屬同一工會的北溫哥華工人能不要求一樣漲,漲一樣?你漲,我漲,大夥一起漲,西溫哥華,八拿比(Burnaby),理查門(Richmond),苛貴懶(Coquitlam)....那一家不有樣學樣,一塊瘋長。
---- 錢從哪來,除了你我房子的地稅,還會哪?每年漲你5.8%, 夠好看的吧?
---- 沒房子的人也好,租金也會跟著飄。再說你要來日想成房奴,你的門檻也每年漲上5.8%,夠你受的吧?
不管怎麽說,未來兩個月,鐵定是罷工了。
--- 全市一定臭氣衝天。
--- 嚇跑全球慕名而來的觀光客。
--- 市府收益一定銳減。
--- 到頭來,市府一定讓步,給人家八九不離十的、靠近29%的漲幅。
--- 來年你的地稅單一定漲;你的租金一定漲;你想買房的難處一定漲。
記住,下次別選刁民當議員。刁民就是刁民,臉皮厚,看似為你勞苦市民大眾說話,實則刁鑽自私,厚顏無恥,如潑賴一般肆無忌憚地揮霍你市民的血汗錢。他們隻管自個享受,敗壞了市場行情,引發全麵工資飄漲潮;最後一切負擔都落在你傻市民的頭上,讓你來簽單。
其實,你市民不推翻議員自個工資的漲幅議案,那工人的一定也得跟著漲。既然漲成了定局,就漲吧。漲了就免了臭氣衝天。要是不漲,兩個月臭氣衝了天,結果又被逼回來給人家漲,那才叫冤枉哪。
消消氣,你別埋怨誰,埋怨就埋怨你自個當初不選賢人而選了這些窮無賴當了鳥議員。是他們讓你的城市臭氣衝了天.....
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中國有句話,說是就讓貪官坐鎮好了。他貪飽了,就不貪了。你要是趕走了老貪官,換上一批新來的,他們又開始貪,老百姓的腰包又要瘦一圈。甚至說一代更比一代貪。 看來還真是這個理。
長周末過去了,溫哥華市的罷工還沒有結束。
碰巧,今個北溫市的一個經理來訪,和D在聊天,我順便聽了一耳朵。
D: 你們那簽了合約,那為何溫市還不簽?照葫蘆畫個瓢不就行了嗎?
經理:不是那樣,溫市員工還是希望漲幅接近29%,因此談不弄。
D: 要是他們談的結果是20%,或更高,你們那的員工不就虧了嗎?
經理:不會。我們這些城市裏的員工雖然複了工,但和市府簽署的合約裏有一個條件,那就是,如果別的城市的談判合約有較大的差額,我們的市府也必須追補早日複工所留下的差額部分。
D: 那溫市的談判就成了關鍵。溫市市府一讓步,別的市府也得照付。
按照本省三級政府的法律,市府是不可以有赤字的。
現在給他們自個和員工每年漲5%,沒錢怎麽辦?
兩條路:一是漲地稅。如果漲得太高了,還是不濟於事,那就是第二條路:減少社會服務項目或服務時間,來減少員工的工作時間,減少加班。
社會服務多是為低下收入家庭的有幫助的項目。如果減少了,對低下收入家庭的影響較大。
你看看,低下收入家庭的選民們,選議員多重要,選得不好,城市就管得不好,到頭來害的還是自己。下次你投票,千萬別義氣用事,不要一廂情願地投給一些不三不四的、號稱可以代表你說話的人來管理自己的城市。
你就耐心地在等等吧。等待罷工的結束。
Richmond的員工已經和市府“直接“達成協議,五年增加19%,當然還有極為優厚的福利:家庭醫療,家庭牙醫,帶薪休假,子女幫助,電腦等家用的補貼等等,罷工正式結束。
“直接”就是工會和市府老板直接談判,不通過第三者:勞工關係局。
Surrey市的員工也用同樣的“直接”談判方式,和市府達成協議,五年增加18到19%,也是類似的福利, 罷工結束。
Coquitlam市的員工也用同樣的“直接”談判方式,和市府達成協議,五年增加18到19%,也是類似的福利, 罷工結束。
Burnaby市的員工也用同樣的“直接”談判方式,和市府達成協議,五年增加18到19%,也是類似的福利, 罷工結束。
North Vancouver市的員工用傳統的談判方式----通過勞工關係局第三者的調停,今個下午和市府達成協議,五年增加18到19%,當然也是類似的福利, 罷工宣告結束。
剩下的就是溫哥華市了:
----工會被迫向市府提出重返談判桌,市府已經答應周日開談。
----別的市工會到達成了五年加18~19%的薪酬加福利的條款,你溫哥華市的工會沒有理由再高到哪去了。29到30%的要求恐怕要讓步到20%上下,
----別的市府既然放棄了14%的底線,溫哥華市府也必然讓步提高到19%或20%的高水平,
----多數市府放棄了“勞工關係局”這個架構,直接談判,並且公開質疑勞工關係局這個架構的合理性,對勞工關係局的存在與否是個極大的考驗。如果溫哥華市也放棄了它,可以說它存在的時代就快要結束了。所以說,相信勞工關係局的危機感比誰都重。他一定會極力促成溫哥華市府和工會的談判盡快結束。
因此,勞工局,市府,工會,三方都被周圍的大環境的大勢所趨,一定會積極談判,大膽讓步,盡快達成協議,好讓大夥都下台。
市民在犧牲多交地稅的結果下,也算對臭垃圾的解脫。
可望長周末一過,溫哥華的垃圾有人收了。
老天保佑這裏的市民吧。
PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL
DATE: 2007.07.27
PAGE: L1 (ILLUS)
BYLINE: REBECCA DUBE
SECTION: Globe Life
EDITION: Metro
DATELINE:
WORDS: 743
WORD COUNT: 682
RECYCLING: RUN ON COMPOSTERS Vancouver's garbage strike has a green
lining
REBECCA DUBE Like most eco-conscious Vancouver residents, Ann Gibbon
reduces, reuses and recycles.
She totes her groceries in cloth bags, sorts out her recycling and gets
electronic bank statements to cut down on paper waste.
In short, she thought she was pretty green.
Then the Vancouver municipal workers' strike started this week, and
garbage collection stopped. And Ms. Gibbon's family, like many others, got
a little greener. "We didn't like the idea of stinky old garbage
piling up in our garage. We really thought, 'We have to do something about
this.' " So her family bought a backyard composter, into which they toss
their yard waste and kitchen scraps. She estimates that they've
decreased their garbage by about 75 per cent.
"And the important thing is, the really gross stuff is down
dramatically," Ms. Gibbon says.
"It's totally easy and really wonderful. I feel liberated." Though the
summertime garbage strike may be a neat freak's nightmare, it could
become an environmentalist's dream.
Amid warnings that the labour standoff could stretch on for weeks,
Vancouver residents are rinsing their jars and tins extra-carefully to keep
bad smells and bugs away from their recycling, trying to reduce their
waste and running out to buy backyard composters.
Out of enlightened self-interest, city officials are encouraging
residents to step up their recycling efforts and consider composting, and
they seem to be heeding the call. A survey of Canadian Tire, Rona and Home
Depot stores in Vancouver this week found that most were sold out of
composters, while a few had just one left in stock.
The run on composters reverses the trend of the past decade. Last year,
30 per cent of people in British Columbia used a backyard composter,
according to Statistics Canada - ahead of the national average of 27 per
cent, but down from the 38 per cent figure the province achieved in
1994.
Researchers attributed the decrease to more people moving into
apartments and condominiums in Vancouver, where the composting rate is about 24
per cent.
"I think people will get more into composting" as a result of the
strike, says Susan Antler, executive director of the Composting Council of
Canada. While she wants the strike to be short and sweet for
Vancouverites' sake, she hopes it will get them thinking harder about their trash.
About half of household garbage is organic material that could be
composted, Ms. Antler says. You can put lawn and food waste except for meat,
bones and dairy products into a backyard composter, about the size of
a garbage bin. The organic material decomposes and transforms
(shrinking in size) into humus, a rich soil component prized by gardeners.
The best part is that composting is one small way to move off the power
grid, Ms. Antler says.
"You can control your own agenda versus being dependent on others," she
says. "You can basically become virtually independent." Raqib Burke
hopes the strike will serve as a wake-up call. He lives in a co-housing
complex in North Vancouver and produces no garbage - he either recycles
it, composts it or doesn't buy it in the first place. The strike
doesn't affect him at all, except, of course, for the smell that's starting
to permeate the city.
"Our entire lifestyle needs to be sustainable, and creating garbage is
a very unsustainable part of an unsustainable lifestyle," Mr.
Burke says. "We ought to be looking at ourselves in the mirror."
Together with the roughly 35 other residents of his complex, Mr.
Burke returns meat and fish bones to the butcher to be recycled.
(Companies collect the waste from butchers to make bone meal and blood
meal for gardening and agriculture.) Using the deposit money from their
beer, wine and juice bottles, they pay to ship their Styrofoam waste
to a specialized recycling plant.
Not everyone will go to such lengths, but Mr. Burke hopes the garbage
strike will inspire people to take simpler steps, whether it's backyard
composting or just rinsing out their recyclables more carefully.
So far, no savvy environmental groups have jumped on the strike as a
marketing opportunity for recycling and composting. But families such as
the Gibbons have already gotten the message on their own.
"I'm really buying into this composting," Ms. Gibbon says. "We're not
going to stop it after the strike is over. It does make you conscious of
how much waste you produce."
----我這理論必江代表的理論更進一步。
村長呀,不是我說你,你這村長還真喜歡官僚既得利益體製。這西方的民主自由到了這份上,就是監管體製失效。例如,人民選了布什,隻需要他獲得相對多數選票就可以,可罷免他卻需要絕對多數的議員票,顯然兩者的標準不一。
再說省議員、市議員的工資,有自己開會說了算,而不是由每屆選民選舉時一並決定議員的工資加職務崗貼,沒人可以監督他們的工資漲幅,顯然是西方民主的不完善----就是監守自盜。
小米小麥,私人垃圾收集公司還真常運作。每天帶到公司的垃圾箱解決問題。大廈的管理收集當是私人公司,該沒這個問題。
隻是圖書館罷工不開放害了家長,要多花錢買小朋友隻看一遍的書。知道Kingsgate Mall吧,那裏有個二手書店,小朋友的書$1一本,不妨去給小米小麥買些打發著罷工的夏天假期。
土姐說的對,這時候還是強權比較好。溫哥華的工人太翹了,動不動就罷工。
這種情況下,我倒覺得強權政治比較好,自由民主隻對於自律的人群適用.任何事情都應該有個度,您說呢?
這裏的工會厲害,也有點過分.