Unions panic at first sight of difficulty

Not every person is amused but I still try to be jokey. What is not so funny is the confrontational whiff of political blackmail from the collective trade unions.

This letter is not about what percentage of salary increases for which they wish to bargain.

This letter is about pride, how they view themselves and how the public reacts to this mass condemnation at the first sign of difficulty.

There is always this negative approach to intended government proposals. I cannot see how this allegedly banana republic- like approach benefits anybody.

We have just barely survived a most difficult 2010-2015 administration, with an unparalleled lack of good governance.

Why would anyone with a modicum of intelligence wish to put back the clock and return so quickly to a state of suffering? For what? Thirty pieces of silver? What comes across is that the unions do not appreciate the word “politics” in all its manifestations.

It is “one for all and all for one” only when pertaining to money.

Is it vastly true that the poor are destined to get poorer? I think this happens because some people appear unable to rise above their own poverty of thought. The unions, which are supposed to provide the vision, panic and advise their workers to selfishly self-destruct.

Will our public servants be seen protesting, vulgarly lying on the ground and scratching their stomachs as was recently portrayed on TV? A threat to withhold support at the ballot box is as useful to this nation as a box full of banana skins.

LYNETTE JOSEPH Diego Martin