Time For An Attitude Change

Thanks to the effort of unions many health and safety issues were resolved and working conditions made tolerable but in today's society unions serve only the marginal worker and strikes are not to benefit the members but to try and retain the power of the union leaders.

Trash clean-up has striking Vcr. workers peeved

Updated Fri. Jul. 27 2007 10:09 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Striking municipal workers in Vancouver are mad that some good Samaritans took it upon themselves to remove trash from a beach.

"We just thought it was the right thing to do. Come down and keep it clean down here," said Jeffrey Miller of Houston Landscapes on Friday.

His group and some church members removed 40 bags of trash left by spectators after the Celebration of Lights
fireworks display the previous night.

One striker said the Houston volunteers weren't scabs, but that what they were doing was wrong.

"They're still doing our job," "Louis" told CTV British Columbia.

"So as a business, as a corporation going in to do our work, they're taking work away from us, and we have every right to stop them from doing so."

Louis said even by volunteering, those individuals were taking work away.

People enjoying the trash-free beach on Friday afternoon didn't sympathize with the union's position.