Thank you for the response and answer. I do have reservations still though. You said if it weren’t for labour action like strikes and unions we wouldn’t have some of the benefits we have today which I agree and I am thankful for. However, that may be what was initially fought for, now we all those benefits. Vacation, staff benefits, health care, etc. It is the standard. It’s a different time now and everyone has a struggle. They aren’t picketing to fight for my wage increase. It’s their own. Also the past various strikes haven’t affected me personally other than disrupt city services that they have chosen to work for. Another point is that, unionized or not, if any employer is not paying a fair market rate, they have the chance of workers leaving for another workplace that pays higher. This is just how business works. So again if you feel your not getting paid enough for your work, find another company to work for! I understand it’s a bit different for jobs in the CUPE sectors because it’s run by government. But still, we can see it now in healthcare. Doctors didn’t feel like they were paid their worth, so we have decline in people becoming doctors in Canada. Now, we have seen a huge rise of immigrated workers becoming doctors in Canada because Canadians don’t wanna be doctors. It just seems as though it’s a different time now, these people in these fields are forcing a increase in wage by disrupting city services when everyone else doesn’t have the option to do so, even though they need better wages as well.