Absolutely not. You can’t just look at the end results of one strike. The Liberals have forced strike action after strike action into binding arbitration, weakening labour’s right to strike and overall weakening labour power generally. Under the modern Liberal party we do not have a right to strike. Employers can bank on the government intervening and forcing workers back to work every time at this point. If you think this is good for labour you need to give your head a shake.

I’ll let you choose what you eat as long as I can override your choice, which I do every time… sometimes you may even get pizza and not eat crow everyday… the system works and it’s good, glad you agree

Sometimes, yes. But since the Liberal government has used this around half a dozen times now, major employers are getting the idea that they don’t have to bargain in good faith, don’t have to come to an agreement so they stall, and any proposal is set lower than terms they would otherwise accept, so that the CIRB would impose a “happy medium” (for employers) on the workers.

This can’t keep happening, and if the appeal takes too long, all these unions should come together and solidarity strike.

Yea we’ll see what happens with arbitration. Disappointed they intervened so quickly but I highly doubt any arbitration agreement won’t get rid of unpaid OT.

From what I can find, Section 107 is some limp dick bullshit. It has no teeth. If the laborers refuse to return, there isn’t much that can be done. There are some penalties laid out, but they don’t involve a general strike. Furthermore, Canada is pretty progressive with employee protections. If there is any retaliatory action taken against employees who strike, a labor lawyer is gonna jump at that case and eat the employer’s lunch. Overall, I think the power is still in the hands of the employees (were it fucking should be) and the government along with the employer are going to have to come to the table with more than idle threats if they want a resolution.