Apparently, one of the city of Montreal's workers' unions is complaining that private property owners and shopkeepers are responsible for keeping their properties clean and neat. This union's sense of entitlement is so high that they are offended over a city bylaw obliging individuals to sweep outside their properties. Apparently the union considers the city to be enlisting "volunteers" to do their job instead of them. Seriously, this is not a joke.
As reported by the National Post on Saturday, the matter was referred to labour arbitration, and the union won. The arbitrator agreed with the union that sweeping and tidying streets and sidewalks was their domain and ordered the city to make sure that the cleaning of Montreal was handled by its union employees only.
No union so be so powerful and hold such a sense of entitlement that they can act in such an arrogant, intrusive, and greedy manner. Shame on them!
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You posted: "ordered the city to make sure that the cleaning of Montreal was handled by its union employees only"
I wonder what is worse. 1) the city forcing shopkeepers to do the city's job or 2) the union insisting that they do it.
Presumably caring shopkeepers will do the job for their own sake and for their own clientel. Surely they will clean up if they want more business or at least if they want continuing business. I would never trust a union to look after my interest; would you?
If it is a good neighbourhood it will stay a good neighbourhood where the shopkeepers will look after themselves. The city or the union people ought to focus on the bad neighbourhoods and leave the rest of us alone unless we request it.
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