BradfordToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our website. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to the article, titled 'Library strike going to binding arbitration' published Sept. 30.
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
Early in my working career, I was caught up in a labour dispute and found myself on a picket line for 65 days. Our library workers walked for 71 days.
"Walked?" you say. Yes, because in another of their late Friday afternoon announcements, the government of Ontario (cleverly disguised as the Labour Relations Board) ordered our library workers off the picket line and back to work.
Once again, the Old Boys League got down to business and citizen rights were set aside in the name of whatever flimsy excuse could be conjured up.
The current Mayor of Bradford, in a pre-election address last fall, stated that his priorities were "business, agriculture and industry." He has just proven his point: the quality of life of other citizens in our community has no place in his paradigm.
J.L. Evans
Bradford
