Comment 13724

By JH (anonymous) | Posted November 05, 2007 at 14:48:01

As Hamiltonians, is it really so surprising that HSR transit operators rely on public campaigning through media channels, including the radio and internet, to get their message across? Surely this type of campaigning is evidence of a healthy labour-industry relationship, in which people (surprise!) are viewed as people with rights, and not just as working drones.
It seems disingenuous to the cause of the workers to deride the content of the site by calling it "emotional." Advertising is regulated for "facticity" in only some sectors; political lobbying is hardly the place you look for solid "factual" accounts reliant on no emotional affect whatsoever. As if the city's actions have been purely transparent and non manipulative!
Maybe what's missing, here, in the campaign naysayers, is a compassionate response to the actual call for ordinary citizens to empathize with what, to HSR workers, are experienced as unhealthy working conditions.
In terms of reasonable wages, it would be useful to track the wages of transit workers through time, to see how the actual increase in wages maps on the real cost of living. Then you would get an accurate picture of what constitutes an adequate, or "reasonable" wage.

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