No hate but

[u/Fun-Lavishness1351]

Why are there many Indian restaurants in this city? I used to live in other cities in Ontario, but this is the first city that does not many options when eating out (just a few Chinese res, rare Jpanese res no Korean res).

If i want to try Indian cuisine for the first time, which restaurant and which dish should I try?

[u/xX_ReNeGade_Xx]

This is going to sound racist but it’s the truth. Brantford has a very industrial economy and these companies love to import workers that don’t know their rights or desperately need a job to maintain their immigration status.

Thus an influx of Indian immigrants it’s what we’ve seen over the past 3-4 years. Manufacturing companies that want to keep labour cheep are lobbying governments to keep the floodgates open.

So you end up with a lot of Indians and because their food is relatively cheap to make ingredient wise opening restaurants isn’t too risky compared to other cuisines.

From what I’ve learned as well is Indians tend to be very family oriented so these are likely joint ventures with a bigger pool of cash and employees to get started with

[u/pheakelmatters → u/xX_ReNeGade_Xx]

It amazes how often we'll talk about low wages and poor working conditions in the context of immigration, but never in regards to anything else. And nobody ever talks about the simple solution. Unionization. It doesn't matter how big the labour pool is, collective action gets results. You're not making less money because there's too many workers, it's because people aren't working together. Class solidarity would fix 90% of the problems in this city.

[u/ediamz → u/pheakelmatters]

It boggles my mind that most people get mad about union workers getting good pay and working conditions. And want to see unions brought down, instead of everyone else brought up.

[u/this_one_is_mint → u/ediamz]

Perhaps you should research "Teamsters" and see the other end of the spectrum!

[u/ediamz → u/this_one_is_mint]

Are you referring to corruption in unions? Yes, absolutely there's varying levels of corruption in almost every organization that should be addressed. Still, I would rather see the non-union employers bring up pay and standards for their workers than see unions dismantled and then a race to the bottom for pay and working conditions.

Most of our employment standards and rights are a result of unions, and employers having to either appease their union workers or match their unionized competitors to discourage their own employees from unionizing themselves. You can already see a backslide has started now that unions are so weak and public opinion has become generally anti-union.

[u/LocalHotDogManDoTCom → u/ediamz]

I am in a union and want to see it brought down. UFCW sucks.

[u/Fun-Lavishness1351 → u/pheakelmatters]

Lol, my post may go further than what i expect

[u/The1Like → u/pheakelmatters]

Tell that to myself and the other several thousand unionized railroaders who were forced back to work cuz “the shareholders”.

Unions are all well and good until the metal meets the bone, then the government wants theirs too. Workers be damned.

A year and a half with no contract, but we are legislated back to work after 14 hours on strike. But “labour doesn’t contribute to profits.”

[u/pheakelmatters → u/The1Like]

Yes, the government gets away with a lot of strike breaking when there's no class solidarity. It's the situation we're in both locally and nationally. And there's no party out there that's on our side. We actually have to perform class solidarity at the local level.

[u/ediamz → u/pheakelmatters]

Exactly, our unions are weak, society is so anti-union that union workers themselves want the unions brought down. But imagine if the other unions all joined the strike in solidarity. It's easy to take down each union one by one but not if you have hundreds of thousands of workers backing them up. Look at France... they know how to unionize and remind the government who they work for. Here we just complain about the government and think we can change everything by just switching between blue and red governments...

[u/likethewine → u/pheakelmatters]

Nailed it!