Sad to see this man go .He has done an excellent job .

The replacement will be interesting

Pity the likes of Jim Sinclair, who, just like him, are probably a decent enough people, but can never get it through their heads that a raise in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour will just be costed into all the prices of everything we buy.

Raising those prices to everyone, negating the advantage to the recipient of the increased minimum wage, and all other wage earners, and another real detriment to anyone living on a fixed income which can’t be raised commensurately.

Jim and his ilk believe that this increase can come out of a business’s profit without any effects on the business.

Their notion is that because the minimum wage has been raised and people now have more money to spend, (presumably, they seem to overlook that we have a ‘graduated’ income tax system ~ the more you gross the greater PERCENTAGE of it the government takes from it), business profits will increase.

Figuratively this might be so, but in terms of what every dollar of any increased dollar amount of profit will actually BUY, (and Jim seems to forget that all the profit of any businesses DOESN’T get paid out to the owners of that business in dividends to anywhere near the degree it HAS TO BE re-invested back into that business and used to pay back any bank loans the business has incurred, if that business wants to remain in business. All that’s really happening is that everyone gets to play with ‘bigger figures’. While they can. For some can not, and they fail. As anyone who’ll open their eyes to what REALLY happens can easily see.

But we can’t really blame the likes of poor Jim for trying to deceive us. For on the other side we have the likes of Gordon Campbell and his more superficially attractive replacement doing exactly the same thing. All of them, and all their supporters, need to recognise there is a very big difference between ‘prosperity’, which is far more than just working with more dollars, and the ‘inflation’ they’d sooner wish on us that is.

The guy never passed a mic without finding a need to preach into. He will climb from his casket to grab a few minutes of face time during his own eulogy.

One could say that those who endorse and actively promote capitalism over socialism (no matter what the consequences) are also trying to “deceive” us. The gap between the super rich and those who barely eke out a living is increasing steadily. The way our is working now has many brutal flaws. If he points that out it is just a pointing at realities.

I don’t fault him for that.

The way our system is working now…corrected.

What a laugh: Don’t mistake organized labour with the little guy. Funny how the union movement enjoys climbing onto the backs of those “…who barely eke out a living”. Yet should one of those peons dare to walk onto a union only work site and offer to work for that “great” minimum wage, they would be physically carried off.

I would think the same applies to your place of employment also

This is one whiny, wimpy kind of guy that I certainly won’t miss seeing on the news. Is this man even capable of getting a job, other than as a union rep??

The problem with the NDP and the BCFED, and most other labour unions is their inability to elect and promote quality people. The quality people are too busy doing their job and don’t have time for the whining that goes on, and on, and on, and on!

With the labour movement, instead of the cream rising to the top, it’s usually the biggest loser that rises to the top, and that’s how Sinclair ended up at the top of the BCFED for as long as he did!

But that’s just my opinion!

150 resolutions-that will put us on a path to the poorhouse. Quebec is a perfect example, sure they have inexpensive childcare options but also have debt that is about 60% of GDT so they are just handing the bills down a generation or ten.

Go ahead and boycott the self checkouts, I love the one at Save-On , way quicker than a single express lane when the store is busy. Will be even quicker with the union zombies standing in another checkout line.

GDP

My biggest issue with organized labour is that it turned into big business. The people at the top are making a killing at the expense of the workers.

Labor unions, aside from many of the good things they have done to better working conditions, are in essence no more than another form of corporation that seeks to the raise the price for its ‘product’ by monopolising the market for it.

This is a policy which is definitely anti-social, and one many staunch union members would vigorously oppose if any other company or agency of government tried to do the same thing.

If they truly had the interests of their members at heart, unions would realise that there can never be more than a miniscule and fleeting advantage from demanding higher pay if the cost of that pay increase only flows through into prices, raising them, too.

If you couple their ‘thinking’ with the fact that in every modern industrial economy there is continual and increasing labor displacement, (perhaps the latest being the automated check-out), they’re really on a downhill slope to oblivion pursuing their present policy.

For surely it should be clear to them that as ‘capital’ continually displaces ‘labor’, the overall capital cost component of every price rises faster than the overall labor cost component of it, even with constant pay increases for those still working.

They need to move beyond the inanity that ALL costs are ‘current’ labor incomes and available for spending therefrom. They’re NOT. Today, far more costs are PAST labor incomes (all capital costs are in this category), and not distributed as incomes IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD that prices are made, but rather were distributed at some times in the past, for the most part spent as received THEN, and their cost then carried forward as they’re ‘allocated’ into prices later.

Governments are complicit in this inanity since they seem incapable of realising that some new mega-project commencing now, one that will have nothing for sale to the public in any sense until it is finished, will only succeed in RAISING PRICES OF any consumer goods and services on the market NOW as it distributes incomes in advance of any new consumer goods available on the market to absorb those incomes.

We get an illusion of prosperity as prices and incomes rise, but prices cannot help under such a scenario to always be rising faster than incomes as time goes on. Debt, unrepayable in its totality, currently bridges the gap. But is anyone in debt is ever, in any sense of the word, ‘free’? Or in perpetual bondage to his creditor?

It is unfortunate that most today don’t know the history of our labour unions. They spew away and have all the solutions but give them a pick and shovel and they wouldn’t know which end to use but they know it all.

Its just great to sit across from the boss’s desk and kiss his ass instead of doing a productive days work. Its just great for them to live off of someone else’s swet.

There are many who die every year in industrial accidents. I guess that is the unions fault as well. You need look no further then the sawmill explosion leaving some that will never work again.

Put your brain into gear before you shoot off your mouth about something you know nothing about. All you know is profit and loss

Jim Sinclair was a grat leader of the working class

Cheers

Retired 02

If it was 1914 and not 2014 some of your points might hold water but as it stands they are pure bunk. There are a lot of public service members who work a grueling 35 hour work week with a list of benefits as long as your arm. Hard to find sweat in almost all union shops even if they all had ebola.

I know pulp mill workers who love the 12 hour night shift as they brag about getting at least 6 hours of sleep, knowing full well the union will protect if caught. If something is missing from a lot of union shops it is work ethic.

In the past 6 months the steelworkers union has taken 2 cases all the way to arbitration to protect low seniority workers with checkered work records who admitted to lock out violations and acts of horseplay that had the potential to injure or kill other employees. If these idiots kill themselves or someone else in the future I’m sure people like you will be pointing the finger of blame at the company while the union leaders whistle and look off into space.

sparrow, the sad thing about your comment is that is absolutely true!!

Sadder still, is those that will allow or wish to continue to allow this to continue. Big Labour is more than content to find excuse after excuse to defend a poor work ethic, instead of trying to instill a work ethic where one recognizes that a full days pay should only come after a full days work!

Cough, cough, BS, cough, cough, cough!