To the Editor:
After the Crop Insurance strike we had a SIAST strike. These are but a few of the groups of human beings who are trying to exist in this cruel world of dog eat dog. We have people hitting out at unions like they are a contagious disease.
Many of these people would love to see all compassion and organized people movement disintegrate so that they could then enjoy the freedom of walking over and having power over all those weaker than themselves. We can't, nor is it natural to be, totally self sufficient any more than we can sustain ourselves in food, clothing and living a productive life in absence of all other human beings.
Why were unions formed? Were they organized by imbeciles in the absence of the other party? Is there a paper trail to indicate what procedures were followed and if anyone reneged in their part of the process?
Perhaps if we went back in time we may find that managers and owners found benefits in dealing with representation in things like qualifications, wages, educational needs and the myriad of problems arising from an owner, worker association. I find it impossible to believe that only workers found benefit in organized representation - isn't that what courts are all about?
An organized union is not a dictatorship anymore than a government. Perhaps there are those who would like to push their power - this only happens if the electorate allows it.
The lack of an organized body of workers is like a town or city without a mayor.
Emmanuel Oystreck, Yorkton, SK.
