On the one hand, if there's a shortage of workers, if we listen to the employer, they say it's a free market, so there's no limit to what an employee should ask. Why don't you ask for $100 an hour, or $300 an hour? Every employer will tell us it's irrelevant; it's a free market. It's a free market on one side, and now we're seeing in the newspaper that everything is costing too much and we should be trying to balance somewhere. I was just reading that in the newspaper today. But it's not true when you have to work out a conflict somewhere.
I can understand that people have been working at some of these jobs for 15, 20, or 25 years. Their whole life they've been surrounded by their job. They've been doing good work, good productivity, and all of that. What do scabs bring? Exclude the violence. Yes, there's no reason for violence, but if you want to make sure that I can't feed my wife and kids, I'll take care of you. I will. I have to survive. But it's not violence; it's just survival.
We have people working in places for 25 years, and there happens to be a strike and they're replaced by somebody. Where's the dignity in this? Where do you have something to fight with? The only thing we're saying is that there should be equal ground for people who are working in this thing. What you're telling me is that maybe they should go somewhere else and let this guy go belly up. They've spent their life in there. The people have the chance to have equal rights, to be balanced.