Collective Bargaining Works When It Is Allowed to Proceed

Without going on strike the border crossing union managed to settle their labour dispute with the government. This despite all of the histrionics and gnashing of teeth by the Conservatives and their allies in the media, which now is pretty much the entire media.

Is it not amazing that the government and union managed to come to an agreement despite all of the noise? Not really. I have always disagreed with PSAC's adversarial first approach to negotiations. They seemed to have never learned the old adage about attracting more flies with honey. However, they like to follow their process and that strike vote was just part of that process.

I am not surprised by the government's role in this. As usual they just got on with the business at hand and quietly resolved the problem.

We can say that the crisis was averted accept that there was never going to be a crisis. This does point out the stupidity of the CPC and in another time that would have been pointed out by our news media. However, since they all hopped on the "sky is falling" bandwagon they cannot point out Conservative stupidity without shining a light on their own.

So this whole thing further proves that if collective bargaining is allowed to happen without the government giving itself, or one side in the case of collective bargaining between unions and private companies, an unfair advantage labour disputes are often settled without disruptive labour action.