Goodbye Picket Lines
The picket lines most visible on my daily commute, those around community centres, are gone. I can’t say I’ll miss their ‘Sam’s Strike’ signs.
You’ll note that Sam had nothing to do with how the strike ended so clearly that strategy was a win. He didn’t have much to do with the start of the strike either. Or the middle for that matter. So it seems they launched, and maintained, a personal attack for no good reason. It wasn’t a position founded in logic nor was it effective. So they just attacked a cripple in the court of public opinion and the media for nothing.
Well, I guess they wanted their enemy to have a face. A mirror was what they really needed.
The city did not make a single personal attack, not once. Not that I’m aware of. It annoys me that one side of a very public conflict can behave so poorly without consequence.
I read in the paper today about how Sam’s comments before the strike were overconfident and his few attempts at intervention to get things moving along were unsuccessful but at least he tried. And when his attempts met with resistance he removed himself from the situation. Seems rational to me. Try to help but if you can’t let the people responsible handle it. A far cry from causing the strike.
And with all the BC Liberals have done to crush unions and undercut collective bargaining you’d think they’d have intervened at some point now that a case with probable cause cropped up but no. Why not? No personal gain? Sullivan not their friend? It’s not like they could possibly think there’s a single unionized person whose support the could lose - by virtue of having pissed all those people off long ago.
No, this wasn’t Sam’s strike and I’m glad the erroneous claims to the contrary can now fade to a dim memory.
