Yes, absolutely. I touched on that in my earlier answer.
We're Canada's largest union, with 740,000 members. We have locals with as many as 30,000 members working for the City of Toronto, and we have very small locals as well. It's not exclusively a big-local or small-local issue when workers go on strike or are locked out.
I can tell you that in every single case I'm aware of—and I've been national president for eight years now—workers have always had the goal of getting a collective agreement that works. Nobody wants to go home and tell their families that their lives are about to be disrupted because a strike is coming or, even worse, an employer is locking them out. Strike pay is not nearly what wages are. There are huge impacts. You talked about the port of Quebec. I've been there visiting members on a number of occasions. It has a real toll.
I haven't heard today—maybe somebody touched on it a bit earlier—about that relationship. Every strike and lockout will come to an end. We heard about the long strike a bit earlier today, but they all end at some point. What happens when a strike ends and workers need to go back to work for the employer who has locked them out or used scabs? It's pretty hard for those workers to go back to that type of company or workplace and pretend that life goes on as usual. Those are some of the real damages that scabs have in workplaces.
I hope I answered your question.