mirroring real life i guess
sanitation is usually seen as a very low status job, even though if they all stopped working most of us will be riddled with disease within a few years
True. Hey, how long has it been since your city last experienced a garbage strike? Because I think everyone in Toronto remembers the 2009 one vividly enough that they think twice before taking sanitation workers for granted. Shit was nasty.
i think the last actual strike was maybe in 2005?
they did threaten one last year though, but i think the local council capitulated
the council is local government to be clear
mirroring real life i guess
sanitation is usually seen as a very low status job, even though if they all stopped working most of us will be riddled with disease within a few years
I think "sanitation worker" and "postal worker" are the only non-cop jobs that have been unionized in every city and town I've ever lived in.
similar here
i was talking about public perception though
True. Hey, how long has it been since your city last experienced a garbage strike? Because I think everyone in Toronto remembers the 2009 one vividly enough that they think twice before taking sanitation workers for granted. Shit was nasty.
i think the last actual strike was maybe in 2005?
they did threaten one last year though, but i think the local council capitulated
the council is local government to be clear
the thin green line
Underpayment your important workers is a efficient social technology. It means you can have more of them and improve your society.
It is perverse but profitable