Of course I'll sign. But making demands is easy. Making a strategy to win demands is very difficult. Negotiation, by itself, cannot win demands that will cost the City so much money. I know you don't want to take away from any other group of school workers to give paras what so these demands will make the City pay more. How can the City be made to do that? Moral arguments about fairness? Think so? As I said demands are easy and everyone loves demands. Demands make a group look really good. But they also perpetuate the illusion that all the union has to do is ask for something and it can get it. The history of unions around the world shows this is wishful thinking.
Of course I'll sign. But making demands is easy. Making a strategy to win demands is very difficult. Negotiation, by itself, cannot win demands that will cost the City so much money. I know you don't want to take away from any other group of school workers to give paras what so these demands will make the City pay more. How can the City be made to do that? Moral arguments about fairness? Think so? As I said demands are easy and everyone loves demands. Demands make a group look really good. But they also perpetuate the illusion that all the union has to do is ask for something and it can get it. The history of unions around the world shows this is wishful thinking.