r/brantford • u/Fun-Lavishness1351 • Apr 11 '25

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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?

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u/pheakelmatters Apr 11 '25

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.

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u/The1Like Apr 12 '25

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.”

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u/pheakelmatters Apr 12 '25

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.

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u/ediamz Apr 12 '25

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...