A Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about how this Canadian Truckers movement aligns with the international workers' ...
Because the protest doesn't represent the trucking industry, it represents the covid deniers.
Around 10% of truckers are unvaxed. Around 10% of Canada is unvaxed. It's more a representation of 10% of Canadians generally than it is 10% of truckers.
No trucking union supports it. Punjabi truckers make up >20% of truckers but are very under-represented in the convoy.
All these people who can afford to park their truck and honk all day are owner-operators because otherwise they wouldn't be able to bring trucks to do nothing useful for that long.
So they also don't represent the truckers who are shit on the most, the ones who don't own their trucks and have the worst conditions.
No one is asking for better trucking conditions in this convoy, even though Canada already had a shortage of truckers because the job itself sucks (driving a long time far from home).
This is a far right protest that's using truckers as a mascot, not a truckers protest.
If there were a lot of anti-vax truckers then they could just stop working and hit supply chains hard, instead of being conspicuously loud and obnoxious only.
Because the protest doesn't represent the trucking industry, it represents the covid deniers.
Around 10% of truckers are unvaxed. Around 10% of Canada is unvaxed. It's more a representation of 10% of Canadians generally than it is 10% of truckers.
No trucking union supports it. Punjabi truckers make up >20% of truckers but are very under-represented in the convoy.
All these people who can afford to park their truck and honk all day are owner-operators because otherwise they wouldn't be able to bring trucks to do nothing useful for that long.
So they also don't represent the truckers who are shit on the most, the ones who don't own their trucks and have the worst conditions.
No one is asking for better trucking conditions in this convoy, even though Canada already had a shortage of truckers because the job itself sucks (driving a long time far from home).
This is a far right protest that's using truckers as a mascot, not a truckers protest.
If there were a lot of anti-vax truckers then they could just stop working and hit supply chains hard, instead of being conspicuously loud and obnoxious only.
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