Absolutely.
As I said, it levels the playing field.
However, more importantly, the thing I would stress from that question is this: Everybody on this committee must understand that when there is a strike or lockout and scabs are brought into the facility, it destroys labour relations for decades. People don't forget that. I was out trying to survive on picket pay and feed my family as we watched other people, in darkened buses or what have you, going across the picket line. As I tell a lot of employers, that decision will come back and destroy labour relations for years. Our members don't forget. More importantly, I also see that a lot of the decision-making on bringing in scabs is at a very high level of employer who, quite frankly, is gone in two or three years. We, the locals and management, are left to pick up the pieces.
Again, in this global economy, if you're going to be one of those world-class suppliers or manufacturers, labour relations is the secret ingredient. If you have strong labour relations, you can get anything done. Trust. Build that relationship. Then, if you have a problem, we'll care about the problem and need to fix it. However, when you mistreat our members, lock them out and bring in scabs, all of that ability is gone, because all they remember—whether it be the father, grandfather, grandmother or aunt—is that they were locked out for six months while scabs took their jobs.
The impact on labour relations is huge, and it takes decades to try to fix that.