温哥华又要臭气冲天

温哥华市属的室外员工又要罢工，将没人收垃圾清脏水通厕所，温哥华又要臭气冲天。

五年前，温哥华市府的室外员工要求增加工资，连续罢工两个月，没人收垃圾，没人清理街道，到处臭气冲天。吓跑了观光客，吓跑了投资人，也吓坏了劳苦市民。

如今他们的合约到期，又要开始工资谈判。市府的提案五年涨幅14%，和上次的合约涨幅一样，可这与工会的新要求“五年涨幅29%”相去实在太远---折一半！根本谈不拢，工会终于今天宣布开始“试验性罢工”-----工会头子说得明白：先预热，继续基本服务，但不加班。就是要逼你市府按期坐回谈判桌，遵循我工会的方案。否则嘛，我全面罢工，你就等着你市府的运作瘫痪吧。

说来这些工会的人也实在太无赖，狮子大开口，贪得无厌。我们早就看够了教联工会动不动罢工以孩子的教育为要挟的那种贪婪嘴脸。你说这些室外清洁工敢要29%的涨幅，不是疯了，就是贪得糊涂了.....

其实，工会提涨幅29%的数字是有来历的。上个月，温哥华的市议员开会，自己给自己通过了一个决议，所有议员未来五年的工资涨幅29%。多少市民有气有恨我没统计过，反正是市民自个选的议员，是自个把好端端的一个家交到了这些乌七麻八的议员手上。到头来市民自个没了监督牵制议员的手段，任凭这些贪婪虫自个给自个高幅涨工资。

好了，你选的议员，你无话可言。现在人家市府员工也有样学样，全部要求涨幅29%，跟这些代表市府资方的黑心议员看齐，你没辙了吧？这一次，你市民怎么骂人家工会？----真是上梁不正下梁歪。天下掌权的人都一样，有权不用过期作废。人不为私囊，天铢地毁灭。

在我执笔的当下，市府室内员工工会以83%的高比数同样否决了市府提出的14%的加薪方案，今晚也宣布，从明个起也加入室外员工的罢工行列。

还有，说是北温哥华市的室外员工，和温哥华市的室外员工同属一个工会，他们也会加入罢工行列。好戏开锣了，这次一定非常难收拾：

---- 你市民选出的温哥华市议员们给自己未来五年的工资涨幅29%，已成了定案。
---- 你市民也默认了他们的涨幅。
---- 市府工人要求看齐。你市民怎么反驳？
---- 你若答应了工人的要求，那就是每年涨幅5.8%, 哪来的这些钱让他们挥霍享受？
---- 你温哥华的工人涨了29%， 隶属同一工会的北温哥华工人能不要求一样涨，涨一样？你涨，我涨，大伙一起涨，西温哥华，八拿比（Burnaby)，理查门（Richmond),苛贵懒（Coquitlam)....那一家不有样学样，一块疯长。
---- 钱从哪来，除了你我房子的地税，还会哪？每年涨你5.8%， 够好看的吧？
---- 没房子的人也好，租金也会跟着飘。再说你要来日想成房奴，你的门槛也每年涨上5.8%,够你受的吧？

不管怎么说，未来两个月，铁定是罢工了。
--- 全市一定臭气冲天。
--- 吓跑全球慕名而来的观光客。
--- 市府收益一定锐减。
--- 到头来，市府一定让步，给人家八九不离十的、靠近29%的涨幅。
--- 来年你的地税单一定涨；你的租金一定涨；你想买房的难处一定涨。

记住，下次别选刁民当议员。刁民就是刁民，脸皮厚，看似为你劳苦市民大众说话，实则刁钻自私，厚颜无耻，如泼赖一般肆无忌惮地挥霍你市民的血汗钱。他们只管自个享受，败坏了市场行情，引发全面工资飘涨潮；最后一切负担都落在你傻市民的头上，让你来签单。

其实，你市民不推翻议员自个工资的涨幅议案，那工人的一定也得跟着涨。既然涨成了定局，就涨吧。涨了就免了臭气冲天。要是不涨，两个月臭气冲了天，结果又被逼回来给人家涨，那才叫冤枉哪。

消消气，你别埋怨谁，埋怨就埋怨你自个当初不选贤人而选了这些穷无赖当了鸟议员。是他们让你的城市臭气冲了天.....

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中国有句话，说是就让贪官坐镇好了。他贪饱了，就不贪了。你要是赶走了老贪官，换上一批新来的，他们又开始贪，老百姓的腰包又要瘦一圈。甚至说一代更比一代贪。 看来还真是这个理。

[杨子]

Tricky:

长周末过去了，温哥华市的罢工还没有结束。

碰巧，今个北温市的一个经理来访，和D在聊天，我顺便听了一耳朵。

D: 你们那签了合约，那为何温市还不签？照葫芦画个瓢不就行了吗？
经理：不是那样，温市员工还是希望涨幅接近29%，因此谈不弄。
D: 要是他们谈的结果是20%，或更高，你们那的员工不就亏了吗？
经理：不会。我们这些城市里的员工虽然复了工，但和市府签署的合约里有一个条件，那就是，如果别的城市的谈判合约有较大的差额，我们的市府也必须追补早日复工所留下的差额部分。
D: 那温市的谈判就成了关键。温市市府一让步，别的市府也得照付。


按照本省三级政府的法律，市府是不可以有赤字的。
现在给他们自个和员工每年涨5%，没钱怎么办？

两条路：一是涨地税。如果涨得太高了，还是不济于事，那就是第二条路：减少社会服务项目或服务时间，来减少员工的工作时间，减少加班。

社会服务多是为低下收入家庭的有帮助的项目。如果减少了，对低下收入家庭的影响较大。

你看看，低下收入家庭的选民们，选议员多重要，选得不好，城市就管得不好，到头来害的还是自己。下次你投票，千万别义气用事，不要一厢情愿地投给一些不三不四的、号称可以代表你说话的人来管理自己的城市。

你就耐心地在等等吧。等待罢工的结束。

[杨子]

好消息

Richmond的员工已经和市府“直接“达成协议，五年增加19%，当然还有极为优厚的福利：家庭医疗，家庭牙医，带薪休假，子女帮助，电脑等家用的补贴等等，罢工正式结束。

“直接”就是工会和市府老板直接谈判，不通过第三者：劳工关系局。

Surrey市的员工也用同样的“直接”谈判方式，和市府达成协议，五年增加18到19%，也是类似的福利， 罢工结束。

Coquitlam市的员工也用同样的“直接”谈判方式，和市府达成协议，五年增加18到19%，也是类似的福利， 罢工结束。

Burnaby市的员工也用同样的“直接”谈判方式，和市府达成协议，五年增加18到19%，也是类似的福利， 罢工结束。

North Vancouver市的员工用传统的谈判方式----通过劳工关系局第三者的调停，今个下午和市府达成协议，五年增加18到19%，当然也是类似的福利， 罢工宣告结束。

剩下的就是温哥华市了：

----工会被迫向市府提出重返谈判桌，市府已经答应周日开谈。
----别的市工会到达成了五年加18~19%的薪酬加福利的条款，你温哥华市的工会没有理由再高到哪去了。29到30%的要求恐怕要让步到20%上下，
----别的市府既然放弃了14%的底线，温哥华市府也必然让步提高到19%或20%的高水平，
----多数市府放弃了“劳工关系局”这个架构，直接谈判，并且公开质疑劳工关系局这个架构的合理性，对劳工关系局的存在与否是个极大的考验。如果温哥华市也放弃了它，可以说它存在的时代就快要结束了。所以说，相信劳工关系局的危机感比谁都重。他一定会极力促成温哥华市府和工会的谈判尽快结束。

因此，劳工局，市府，工会，三方都被周围的大环境的大势所趋，一定会积极谈判，大胆让步，尽快达成协议，好让大伙都下台。

市民在牺牲多交地税的结果下，也算对臭垃圾的解脱。
可望长周末一过，温哥华的垃圾有人收了。

老天保佑这里的市民吧。

[stillthere]

hehehe... I read this below from Globe and Mail yesterday:


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."

[杨子]

是的盈袖，天厉害，比不上人厉害。祸害地球的全是人自己。江领袖说，工人/无产阶级代表最先进的生产力，真是越来越不能理解。这里的工会工人可不是无产阶级，既不代表最先进的生产力，也不代表劳苦大众。一小撮人的团体建立在大多数人的集体利益之上。
----我这理论必江代表的理论更进一步。

村长呀，不是我说你，你这村长还真喜欢官僚既得利益体制。这西方的民主自由到了这份上，就是监管体制失效。例如，人民选了布什，只需要他获得相对多数选票就可以，可罢免他却需要绝对多数的议员票，显然两者的标准不一。
再说省议员、市议员的工资，有自己开会说了算，而不是由每届选民选举时一并决定议员的工资加职务岗贴，没人可以监督他们的工资涨幅，显然是西方民主的不完善----就是监守自盗。

小米小麦，私人垃圾收集公司还真常运作。每天带到公司的垃圾箱解决问题。大厦的管理收集当是私人公司，该没这个问题。
只是图书馆罢工不开放害了家长，要多花钱买小朋友只看一遍的书。知道Kingsgate Mall吧，那里有个二手书店，小朋友的书$1一本，不妨去给小米小麦买些打发着罢工的夏天假期。

[小米和小麦]

杨子你们家这几日的垃圾怎么处理啊？
土姐说的对，这时候还是强权比较好。温哥华的工人太翘了，动不动就罢工。

[老土他炕上的]

杨子老师好久不见,问好!
这种情况下,我倒觉得强权政治比较好,自由民主只对于自律的人群适用.任何事情都应该有个度,您说呢?

[盈袖2006]

真的吗? 气死我了,今年天气已经很闷热,有点像国内了,如果再加上垃圾,天哪!
这里的工会厉害,也有点过分.