Here we have an evil (yet visible) hand of capitalism crushing the workers and robbing them of their up right position.
I really hope I never have to give these people union dues.
Also...what the hell is P3 anyway? And where do I send money to support it?
(I stole this topic from Saskboy...I'm a jerk that way)
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13 comments:
P3 = Public-Private Partnerships
Two Hospitals have been built in Ottawa using the P3 method, both on time and under budget. There were a number of protests from CUPE here in Ottawa over this decission to use P3...protests against Mike Harris and his evil empire...but, in the end it was Dalton McGuinty who gave the final approval...no protests at Queens park over that one. Funny...both buildings were built by major Canadian Construction company's who, only use unionized tradesmen. It boggels the mind!
billg
Hey, steal as much as you like, so long as you give me a link it's not really stealing ;-)
I threw in the definition of P3 into my blog post, but didn't make it obvious to help show how useless that CUPE commercial is. It's just an excuse for them to spend money on production. It would help if they at least had a writer who wasn't brainwashed and could explain clearly the disadvantages of P3s.
What! Public-private partnership? What the hell is the public sector doing there! That's outrages!
Yeah if I had thought about it I would have remembered what P3 is. It was talked about a bit during the election. Still...
I think they made the problem pretty clear Saskboy, if P3 is allowed to continue the corporations will force as all into giant dominoes. Then they will knock us down for the fun of it.
..disadvantages..??? Like under budget and delivered on time? Built by union workers on a 37 hour work week? Its kind of ironic...I have a business that uses alot of union tradesmen on Saturdays..they of course work for cash, and, a number of friends who are unionized Hydro workers, who, have lawn and tree care business's on the side...taking business away from the guys who run business ad's and pay Workers Comp...I always found that to be somewhat "ironic" and hypocritical.
Maybe its just me. billg
No, like privatizing a workplace that is supposed to put the public good ahead of profit.
Well actually intelligent greed leads to the public good more often than government interference. It is about the incentives built into the system. I private deliverer has incentives to provide good care where the public system does not (or at least has a much smaller incentive)
sorry "a private" not "I private"
So it's probably a coincidence that Maple Leaf has a poisoning case at about the same time the Tories are clawing back government safety inspections?
Specific cases don't disprove a general rule. Besides, the free market is going to destroy Maple Leaf unless they prove they've learned their lesson.
Ha! Good one Hugh.
"CTV.ca | Maple Leaf Foods will recover from recall: experts
Maple Leaf is a multibillion-dollar food giant, whose Dempster's bread..."
We know the "free market" has destroyed them before, and they certainly learned their lesson, didn't they?
The problems are many-fold, but one is that most people won't know about this recall, and of those who do, they'll buy whatever is cheapest in the store, or whatever name they recognize, or has the best looking packaging.
Even if they recover, they'll take a beating over it, and it'll show in their bottom line. That's way better than you can say about what will happen to a government agency that screws up equally badly.
Also, is your entire thesis here that people are morons who can't read a news story and make decisions accordingly? Maple Leaf has nicer packaging, and thus they can poison everybody who eats their food and nobody will be the wiser?
As for the actual merits of the case at hand, they're a big company, and tainted food happens occasionally no matter how hard you try to avoid it. They should still take a beating, to provide an incentive to minimize it, but it's not the supreme moral failing of the ages that they survive the experience.
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