City of Toronto Civic Strike: Views of a Disgruntled NDP Party Member
Not good enough. That’s all I have to say. It’s not bloody good enough! Send them back to Miller! Grow some back bone and stop giving members of the NDP a bad name by being a spineless twat. Not all of us support the current tactics. I hate the tactics being used. It will make the situation needlessly worse.
I believe in the right to strike, but if it prevents people from going about their business then I say, revoke the right. If you’re going to inconvenience other people then you shouldn’t be allowed to go ahead. Picket lines are fine, but not when people are forced to wait 15 minutes to dispose of garbage in the heat of summer. The longest way should be no longer than the longest traffic light in Toronto. 60 seconds should be the longest time anyone should have to wait.
Even then 60 seconds is too much. This is not right.
Stand up to these people. It is your duty and right. This right is given to you in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
They can set up picket lines; we can set up counter-picket lines. We can have our own signs denouncing them. It won’t weakened their so-called position. They weakened it by being insufferable assholes who have refused to try and win over the public.
If the union was smart it would have tried to make the public its friend in this. They broke the first rule of any strike – don’t piss off the public.

