Typical Western Canada mentality. Sometimes you’d wonder if the execs at Potash are so filthy rich they’d rather see their market presence decline drastically than treat their employees with what they’re requesting.

Let’s get a decent deal in place and get back to work !

Union is demanding unrealistic wages. If you want profit from market prices invest, otherwise go back to work.

Okay, the union wants bonuses which would have amounted to over $150,000 for each of their 6,000 workers for the last year alone, based on the price of potash. So the union is saying the company should hand over close to one billion dollars extra to the workers. For that year. The company is expected to sign on for this and keep paying bonuses of this nature? That’s ridiculous. If you form a cooperative and put in equal amounts of money, then you can operate a business that way. If you work for someone like Potash Corp.,workers allready get up to an extra ten percent of their wages in bonuses. Where else does this happen? Unless you own the company, your entitlement to bonuses of that nature is zero. But it seems the union is quite happy to create an environment of entitlement. Give me more, because, I’m special. The union is trying to create a lottery system for its workers and no company is going to agree to such nonsense. If you think that Potash Corp is going to allow the union to back them into a corner, you’re wrong. When the mines shut down and the unions are out, maybe some of the 6,000 workers can get their jobs back.