Editor:
Another year passes, and the apparatchiks of Canada's major labour unions are still mired in their myopic yearning for an obsolete era of entitlement.
I have nothing against unions; my parents and my grandfather were members their whole working lives.
I simply do not trust their intransigent leaders who claim to speak for the entire membership.
Nor do I believe there is "solidarity" between all workers. I would surmise that a lot of unemployed industrial workers are resentful towards the greater security enjoyed by public employees.
Ken Georgetti, Barry O'Neill and Darryl Walker refuse to present any credible ideas to inoculate Canada against another possible recession in the U.S.
They also evince a disdain for self-reliance; every citizen is ultimately responsible for his own financial security, not the state.
Karl Marx said, "Political power... is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another."
Communism failed to abolish all economic strata as the commissars formed a new bourgeoisie, enjoying modern luxuries as their fellow proletarians starved.
Do Georgetti, O'Neill and Walker realize the irony of their positions in the union? Perhaps they should return to their real professions before they become corrupted like those greedy corporate executives.
Steven Austin
