Labour stories: the breaking point is close

Sometimes I see a theme developing in stories from different media.

Workers at Molson Coors are close to a strike and a dairy producer is forced to destroy a lot of milk because of a labour dispute.

CBC has the headline Workers in Quebec say employers need to ‘sweeten the deal’ to get them back. Damn straight! Finally, workers have the leverage to get better deals, after a generation has watched management bringing home ever bigger payoffs and bonuses as wages and salaries have stagnated compared to inflation. But workers can’t take this for granted, they need to organize, unionize and use their collective clout. Cue up the Internationale, somebody.