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• guido writes

  I want to go home to my family everyday in the same condition I entered my workplace at the start of my shift.
  You can say we have laws for safety and I would agree but if know one is there to enforce than company’s will not follow because their only concern is to get their product out the door as cheap and quick as possible.

  you are sooo right about that. in non union shops they dont care about your safety I know first hand I worked in a non union shop recently the whole place was a health hazzard.but according to most people including those on this site unions are "evil" and they arent needed in todays society and hurt investment wow people in todays society are pretty stupid if they agree unions are evil.

• Paul, I am in auto plants every single day, I know how they run quite well. I agree that some Japanese manufacturers have had quality issues as of late. I also know that the Big 3 have also imprived theirs greatly. But you still have not put forth any information that the Japanese are not practicing fair trade.
  The Japanese have invested here heavily while the Big 3 have scaled back. Sure the Japanese are also lamenting a high dollar, something our gov't has little control over but the fact remains, the Big 3 are requiring massive amounts of tax payers dollars while the Japanese do not need nearly as much, or in some cases none at all.

  As for Free Trade, I agree with you. I agree that Free Trade has been good for Canada in dealing with the USA but ever since we had NAFTA (which includes Mexico) we have lost manufacturing to third world nations.

• Paul, what you're say doesn't make any sense. If the whole non-union shop was a health hazaard, you should have reported them to the Ontario Labour Board or your health and safety committee. Since January 1991, the Occuptional Health and Safety Act requires by law that all workplaces with 20 or more workers must set up a joint occupational health and safety committee. UNION OR NOT. As you have more workers, more employees have to be members. If there are more than 5 employees and less than 20, the employees must choose one of their own representatives. The members must attend a one-week training course approved by the ministry at the employer's expense. Employers require an implementation program in support of health and safety policies. These members must review and report on the safety of the work areas at the employer's expense.. http://www.labour.gov.on.ca Even new employees have to watch a half hour view on health and safety and they know that the legislation exists. Did you not see that video? I did because it was required by law to see it. If employers have an unsafe workplace and it's reported, the ministry will send down an inspector to make sure the employer fixes the problem just like the Fire Department will send down a fire marshall if the employer isn't following fire safety procedures and regularly inspecting and testing fire equipment or has fire hazaards such as unprotected electrical wires sticking out of the walls and ceilings.

  SAFETY MUST BE ENFORCED REGARDLESS OF WHETHER UNIONS EXIST IN THE WORKPLACE.

  If employers fire employees over reporting them to the Ministry, then the employers can get sued big time for wrongful dismissal. And, reporting is also anonymous.

  To say there is no safety in a non-union workplace is very naive and ignorant, Paul.

• Here, the Ministry of Labour fined a Windsor company, Great Tents and Events, in January 2008, $50,000 plus a 25% surcharge for not following safety in the workplace such as failing to put up a safety guardrail. It wasn't the unions that imposed safety in the workplace, so as far as safety is concerned, unions are an unnecesarry and excessive expense to employers: http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2008/01/07/c6967.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html