NORTH AMERICA DISPATCH: The Great Northern Strike Carnival
By Soot Hackwell, Politics & Poison Department OTTAWA — Nothing quite illuminates the tender mercies of modern capitalism like watching 10,000 flight attendants simultaneously decide that serving overpriced airplane coffee isn’t worth tolerating management’s contemptuous wage offerings, thereby transforming Air Canada into the world’s most expensive fleet of decorative aluminum sculptures.[1] The strike, which began … Read more