• streetfestival
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    24 days ago

    I’m critical of the NDP because I support them and want them to succeed. I don’t love this messaging - I think it could be more effective. Trudeau caving to corporate greed seems to me a less important point to emphasize than we the NDP are the party that most emphatically works for working-class families

    • TheAgeOfSuperboredom
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      24 days ago

      This! Shitting on Trudeau does nothing but give fuel to the cons. The NDP should be out with positive messaging and not participating in the trashy “Fuck Trudeau” rhetoric.

      • Nik282000
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        22 days ago

        ‘Fuck Trudeau’ is the low hanging fruit, and the line has to go up.

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    24 days ago

    I wish there was more focus on the reasons why arbitration had to be forced. Our rail and its workers, and therefore our entire economy, is held hostage by two (two!!) companies. I think it’s high time they were split up.

    • BeaverOP
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      24 days ago

      Break them up to encourage competition and electrification.

    • ILikeBoobies
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      22 days ago

      It could be public but then that’s one company holding it up

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        22 days ago

        We don’t allow freight and logistics companies to own highways, so we do we still let them own track?

        The public should own the tracks. Rail companies should be freed to focus on competing for cargo and passengers.

        • ILikeBoobies
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          22 days ago

          Yes but that’s a separate issue and exists to keep truckers employed

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            22 days ago

            What’s your logic for treating it separately? The tracks and roads both serve as infrastructure to move people and goods around, yet the public owns only roads.

            We could keep more train conductors employed too if we had a fairer access system for tracks.

  • Rentlar
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    24 days ago

    There, you have proof that collective actions works. Problem is that this time the two Class 1s are using that power and not workers at large.