37
Manitoba NDP crushes health care workers’ strike (thenorthstar.media)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Did anyone actually listen to Kinew's explanation? This is still recovering from the deliberate crippling and beginnings of privatization the conservatives implemented, and the NDP is working to bring the lab infrastructure out of private hands so it can be better staffed and run.

Having been a consultant sitting in those meetings where conservatives explicitly stated that intent, I am intimately aware how hamstrung the NDP were. I am also surprised by the hyperbolic spin chosen for the headline. Almost as if someone has an agenda to make the Manitoba NDP look as bad as possible without any nuance whatsoever.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    So, Conservatives bad (which is honestly true nearly 100% of the time), but we can't let people choose to strike because...the company is run poorly because of the Conservatives?

    If you don't even KNOW if someone's job is an "Essential Service" then you shouldn't be able to stand in the way of a Strike. What the NDP does know, is that Dynacare is dog shit. As such, let them eat crow with strikers instead of forcing strikers to work for people you know for absolute fact are dog shit.

    As far as it feeling like there's an Agenda against the NDP, that'd be because there is, Post Media owns the majority of news in this country and they're MAGA losers doing their best to sow discord. That said, the NDP shot themselves in the face here (and also very recently in BC).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Wrt your second paragraph, it seems like the decision was: support these workers and let citizens possibly die from something preventable or force them back to work.

    It'd be nice if there was a law that the company has to pay union demands if workers are deemed essential. Or non union employees receive no paycheque/shares until negotiations are done.

    Or

    You can't be private AND essential

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    If it's essential to the survival of our citizenry, there are zero excuses for it being private in the first place, and the NDP should have been looking into making them a public company well before striking was even being talked about. Instead they're just saying they "might" look into it, which translated from Politician to English, means they have no intention in making them public at all.

    While I understand that these workers striking may put lab results on delay, that's the cost of Privatizing healthcare. It is not the fault of the people striking, it is the fault of the Private company. That's literally why the entire idea of socialized healthcare doesn't include private interests.

    Everyone that's been alive and paying attention long enough knows that the only way to accomplish any goal against the Wealthy and Political classes is a painful process and that pain is not directed at anyone that deserves it. The Political class only cares about the rest of us, when it's in their interest to do so. Meaning it has to both serve the Wealthy and Political classes, or they simply ignore us. The pain caused by striking here is to the people needing their test results, that's a terrible thing no doubt, but to get the Political class to move in any way against the Wealthy class, pain MUST be inflicted. It sucks, but it's the reality of how our systems are setup. It's also why things like Protesting for Palestine does absolutely nothing at the government level (other than label you as a problem anyway). Protests that don't cause pain, don't get results.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    The lab test work was publicly run, then privatized. Wab said that he's asking that it be made public again, which isn't cheap. Anything privatized is a ticking time bomb and this one blew up in Wab's face.

    I agree, the only way to extract rights is by hurting the capitalist class. I just feel bad for the patients because lab results are a life or death situation, and that's being used to force people back to work. If the company was held responsible for the delayed work (like penalty fees) or legal liable for someone's death, then I'm sure we would have seen a much quicker turnaround (maybe something the Manitoba NDP should put into law).

    If only it were the good ol' days of beating your employer until they agreed to pay better wages.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If it's essential to the survival of our citizenry, there are zero excuses for it being private in the first place

    Yep

    NDP should have been looking into making them a public company

    Yes. We should account for what they've done so far, and what their road blocks were. I want them to be a getting shit done Mamdani.

    While I understand that these workers striking may put lab results on delay, that's the cost of Privatizing healthcare. It is not the fault of the people striking...

    Well, i concur. However, as a person who has to make decisions on the backs of previous decisions like this you've got to make a tough decision: let people die, or support the strikers. I myself would bring them back to work AND do as much as possible to get private labs out of the system.

    It's also why things like Protesting for Palestine does absolutely nothing at the government level

    I mostly concur with you here, that protesting really feels ineffective compared to say Luigi, we should remember it's not nothing, and it has had success in the past (ghandi, and MLK).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent