Waiting For "Refuse To Vote"

I wonder if this will be the result today. We shall see!

I am beat...too much writing and too many late nights trying to be on top of too many stories. A bit of a pause until the vote results are in.

So two pieces that you may find amusing. The first is tongue-in-cheek, I think, from a reader who suggests why CUPE might want to consider voting YES:

• "Your post today is well done, and spells out the case for rejecting the offer. (You noticed that Eddie broke his promise to post the offer on the City's website today.
  
  I offered another perspective. In a military campaign, sometimes generals choose to pull back from a battle, lose it effectively, in order come at the enemy from another direction. Add to this the guerrilla tactics of going into the enemies "home" and doing major damage.
  
  If the workers vote yes with a plan in mind it may work better in the long run in that the city will pay and pay and pay. For example, if all of the insider workers demand to be retrained in order to do their job, this would halt the whole operation. They would work to rule, walk out of meeting, and on for every break possible, take the maximum sick days, resist all attempts by managers to "be nice" and when they say something about it, tell them to go and cry on Eddie shoulder. I do know that there will be no compromise with managers. They are complicit with in association with Eddie and his groupies. They profited from the financial pain of CUPE Workers.
  
  I only wish that CUPE national would make a big announcement along with a No vote to send hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the strikers at more that 200.00 a week.
  
  Then there is the next election. Every one of the current city council members have failed... I know that there are many other groupies out there, but Eddie will screw things up in many other areas, like the bridge, and all of the lackey councilors will go down with him.
  
  This city will suffer for a very very long time now that it has broken its relationship with the labor community."

And the Windsor Star today being so nice. Even quoting people who are giving out what the UNION has been trying to get into the Star in the first place. They must think that the Strike is over and want to build up their subscriber base again:

• "Deal or no deal?
  
  CUPE members decide today
  
  Ward 4 Coun. Bill Marra urged workers to give the city's offer "genuine and serious consideration" so that the city can begin the difficult process of healing and moving forward. He said it was imperative city services be restored and vital that workers get back on the job and on with their lives.
  
  "We have to restore the relationships that have been affected by this work stoppage. It's affected the community and there have been some strongly divisive lines created and somehow we need to find a way to address that," said Marra. "We've got to come out of this somehow stronger and better. Those are easy words to state and it's a lot easier said than done, but that has to be our objective."
  
  Windsor resident Richard Robinson lamented the divisive nature of the strike and the criticism levelled at workers, who are striking to preserve post-retirement benefits, not for themselves but for future hires.
  
  "They went out on strike for the next generation," he said. "They've been on strike for three months, they've been suffering, and all everybody was doing was badmouthing them."
  
  A man catching smallmouth bass at the foot of Ouellette Avenue said CUPE picked a bad time to go on strike. "How do you split the pie up when the pie is shrinking?" he said. "By this stage of the game, I guess there are no winners."
  
  Windsor resident Nancy Zaborek fears city workers are being used as pawns in a broader game to strip benefits away from all workers.
  
  "Who's next? Is it going to cascade?" she said.
  
  Brian Murphy, enjoying a riverfront walk before sunset, called for a speedy end to the work stoppage. "It's gone on long enough," he said. "Both sides have suffered and so has the city."

And now, I am going to wait!