Letter to the editor: Disgust at public service unions

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DISGUSTED BY PS UNIONS

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Re: Public service unions promise ’summer of discontent’ over in-office policy, online, May 8

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I am so discouraged and disgusted with the behaviour of the public service unions and the workers who don’t want to go to work at their offices. This situation is completely ridiculous and spinning out of control.

They have cushy, low-stress jobs with great pay and benefits. They could have it a lot tougher working in the private sector, where productivity, results and attendance are expected.

Unions came about more than 100 years ago to help people who worked in horrendous and unsafe conditions with very low pay and no benefits.

These people today should be very grateful to have it as good as they do. It’s called work for a reason.

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I surely hope our government will stay strong and not give in to those with huge senses of entitlement. Perhaps the upset workers would be happier somewhere else and let people who want to work take their jobs.

I personally think unions today are for construction workers, loggers, miners and those who work in tough, physically demanding jobs. Not office workers, or teachers for that matter.

KEN DAWSON

CONSTANCE BAY

REX WILL BE MISSED

Canada has lost an iconic journalist with few peers in Canada. This brilliant Rhodes Scholar never lost his sense of humour, developed in Newfoundland. Rex Murphy wrote with wit and often thinly veiled sarcasm, but in a manner easily understandable to average Canadians.

Rex truly loved Canada, and that came across in his articles. Rex was no fan of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who often was the subject of his excellent articles.

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If there was ever a Canadian truly deserving of the Order of Canada, but who never had that order bestowed, that person is Rex Murphy.

Like hundreds of thousands of Canadians and others around the world, I will miss Rex.

LARRY COMEAU

OTTAWA

WORLD A LITTLE EMPTIER

Christopher Pratt, Gordon Pinsent, now Rex Murphy.

This world feels a little emptier.

We love you, Newfoundland.

ROD PACKWOOD

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