Not a dentist... good guess though. :tup:

A Law school would do MUN wonders. They've already sucked about 60% of Nova Scotia's secondary school students in to moving here, providing an opportunity to do law here would maybe draw a few more?

Yes, this would be awesome... if they did it a couple of years ago. I am currently looking into law, and have a couple of applications sent in, I am disappointed that this is only happening now.

That said, Lakehead in Thunder Bay and Thompson Rivers in Kamloops have both added law schools in the last 2 years. There is no reason MUN couldn't or shouldn't have a law school, especially since there are only 2 currently in Atlantic Canada.

This isn't really economic but it's nice

New Radiation Technology for Cancer Centre

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31391&latest=1

New Maps for Petroleum Exploration

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31504&latest=1

Challenging but Bright Future for NL: Locke
 

VOCM
March 2, 2013
Author: Unknown

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31556&latest=1

More than 20, I hope. :D

Me too!!! :)

GOOD!!! :)

Big Deal for Multi-Media Company


http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31720&latest=1

Strike at St. John's International Hits Six Month Mark
 

VOCM, March 11, 2013

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31893&latest=1

Construction for Hebron Living Quarters Underway
 

VOCM, March 11, 2013.

Another one - I think this may have been posted in the SJ project thread as well.

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?...31894&latest=1

I really think that it is in the workers best interests to cut their losses and go back to work. They obviously aren't as necessary to the airport's operations as they believed and the airport is getting along just fine without them. The only people that are hurting are the strikers and their families. The simple fact is, they probably won't recover what they've lost by striking before they retire. It's sad to think that families had to go through Christmas without/on reduced incomes. They aren't going to get the pay raise they want and they are really only hurting themselves by staying out this long.

I agree 100%. The strike is pointless and just plain annoying now. The workers are only hurting themselves at this point.

Well the strikers pay probably isn't much different now then if they were working. However, I don't understand why they are on strike. They have been offered a huge raise and will be paid more then others in their field who work with the province, the city and Mount Pearl.

Interesting as well is that there have been some questionable things that have happened at the airport, like the urinals in the men's washroom all breaking, that some think may have been done by the unions. I'm surprised they haven't been legislated back to work, I'm sure in a bigger airport they would have been.

Yeah, personally I think the union are on their last legs now. After striking for 6 months and airport is still operational - that doesn't bode well for them.

It's greed. Why not strike until you get paid more than the CEO? The same thing happened during the Metrobus strike.

The union needs to cut its losses here and get back to work before the airport realizes that these workers are necessary.

The union has done its members a huge disservice.

As far as I am concerned, the constant rejecting of good offers is nothing sort of greed and an attempt to justify the existence of the union at all. The days of unions being necessary for the rights of workers are long passed, given the existence of minimum wage standards, employment health and safety standards, etc. etc. No one is dying on train tracks anymore or being paid so little they can't afford to eat.

So now, Unions need to ensure that they always get more. Every round of collective bargaining, they need to get more than the last round, or they appeared to have failed. It's an unsustainable cycle of needing more.

In this case, the union has demanded so much that the Airport simply can't budge and give in. They've tried to be reasonable... they've tried to be more than reasonable, but the union has rejected everything. So what happens? The airport reaches a point where they have no choice but to say "fine, we'll carry on without you." And guess what... they're carrying on just fine. Maybe it's not optimal... maybe there are some dirty bathrooms, but the bottom line is I am willing to bet that the airport is looking at this and saying "wow, we don't need all 85 of them to run this place." They probably need half that number.

I fully expect a round of layoffs to come down the pipe in the next year or two after all this is settled. They won't do it right away, but I'd say their eyes have been opened as to exactly how much excess exists. Maybe that's the solution. Hack the group in half and then offer higher wages to those that stay.

I say fire them all and hire new people who will work for what is fair. Hell, raise the salaries a couple bucks and hire the best of the best. That's capitalism. Supply and demand. If one service worker will only work for $18.00 / hour, but there is someone equally as qualified who will do it for $15.00... you hire the guy willing to work for $15.00. Maybe next time buddy at $18.00 won't overestimate what he's worth.

Standing on a picket line for six months doesn't mean that someone is worth and extra $5.00 an hour all of a sudden. Proving that you're the best at what you do, whatever the job, is what makes you irreplaceable and worth a raise.

I have no time for this strike, I very much dislike MOST unions, and I fully support cutting the lot of them and hire folks who want the work and will appreciate the job they have at the airport.

I don't like to get involved in pro/anti union debates normally, but I will say this... While many unions do regularly overstep their bounds, they will always be necessary. A quick look at what's been happening on the federal level over the last few years should show how quickly many of our protections could (and would) be repealed.

For the record, I'm not in a union, and have no desire to be. BUT, I'm glad others are, if only to provide a counter to industry's wishes to return to the glory days of the industrial revolution.

Great post, Copes. I definitely agree with your sentiment.

That said, I consider myself generally pro-union and would rather see them reformed (since I am not blind to the very significant disadvantages they come with) than disbanded (since I fear those disadvantages more). My only fear is that we end up like the Americans where, in just a few decades, CEOs have gone from earning dozens of dollars per every one their average worker earns, to earning thousands of dollars per every one their average worker earns. That I don't want to see here.

People on the top deserve to earn more - significantly more - I've no problem with that. But it's lower/middle class income that fuels our economy and makes us a generally nice place to live.

Getting rid of unions, to me, has a danger of playing out like... "I haven't beaten my wife since she got a restraining order. So, obviously, we don't need the restraining order anymore."

I won't engage you in debate given your desire to avoid it, but let me be clear regarding my opinion. I have no problems with the concept of Unions. I have major issue with their policies, how they are run, how they act, and what they demand from what I have witnessed in recent years when I have been paying attention. I believe in a worker's right to collective bargaining, but I feel that today's unions are largely unreasonable and inefficient and a negative addition to the overall running of a private entity.

But no, I'm not for wiping all of them out and reverting back to the industrial revolution either. That system was more flawed. If only a little.