Speaking of Unions...

Union uses the idea that someone gets paid more than someone else in an unrelated field as ammunition against TELUS:

"Telus offer 'insult' to female workers, union saysLast Updated Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:32:02 EDT
CBC News

The Telecommunication Workers Union says Telus is trying to create a rift between male and female workers with its latest contract offer.

Wow, this sounds serious...

Union president Bruce Bell says the company is offering increased signing bonuses and wages to craft employees in Alberta and British Columbia who are mostly male.

Mostly male? You mean that telus isin't an affirmative action monkey?

But he says there are no comparable increases for workers in predominantly female classifications.

So these people have different jobs?

"The fact is that under the Telus offer, wage parity for clerical and operator service employees would not become a reality until the final months of their offer," Bell said.

FROM JUNE 17, 2005: Telus pushes settlement of lengthy labour dispute

"Telus is trying to drive a wedge between different groups of our members by offering bribes to some of them," he said.

He called the changes an an "insult to all members," especially those in predominately female job classifications. "

So if I understand it correctly, if computer nerds get a 10% increase then secretary's should get a 10% increase as well? Have the secretaries thought about becomming computer nerds in order to gain some wage paridy?

Does the idea that different jobs require different pay and have different labour demands ever cross the minds of these union idiots?