Raise the Hammer

I never get why people feel free to critize members of public unions for their "excessive wages" or "posh benefits plans"?

If they were able to negotiate these concessions from their employer, good on them. I wish I could get that from my employer. Why should I go around insulting them, telling them to "wake up and abandon defined benefits pension plans". What makes anyone feel that they're entitled to judge the compensation of others?

I also can't help but notice this judgment seems restricted to unions. I don't hear quite the same outcry about the starting salary of accountants, or dentists.

Why all this hate for people who, in the past, were able to negotiate decent benefits? They're working out something with their employer, and I don't see why the peanut gallery feels they deserve to get involved in the discourse. Does your postman show up to your job site at Christmas and criticize your "hefty" Christmas bonus? No? So why is the reverse tolerated?

People need to mind their own f#%$&@$ business! I understand you're frustrated with the Canada Post strike, but what makes anyone feel entitled to tell another group of people what they should accept from their employer?

Many of the people complaing about unions also seem to be rather poor, and working in a non-union environment. I'd almost chalk their comments up to jealousy. Many lament how difficult it is to "make ends meet" and how good the postal employees have it. I don't suppose any of these complainers have ever though that maybe they're underpaid, and the postal union has managed to negotiate a living wage? Maybe they should be congratulating the posties instead of insulting them.

This is between the employer and their employees, Canada Post and the Union, everyone else is free to complain about the disruption, but should refrain from publicly lynching either side (yes, I said either side.).