Strategic Voting

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Originally Posted by Linus

I would still prefer the Green party to the NDP but that's a personal preference (I dislike that unions protect workers who don't do their job because they don't want to, not because of illness or what-have-you).

I forgot to comment on this part.

I like unions. I get the fear of unions "protecting the lazy worker" - but I also get that that's pretty much a catchphrase that anti-union people love. I would rather have all workers protected (even the ones who may not deserve protection) than to have no workers protected at all.

God, if the place where my spouse worked was unionised they would have never had the opportunity to fuck him over as thoroughly as they did.

(Backstory - Nick needed a knee replacement. Nick has a knee replacement. His employer wanted him back at work 2 weeks after surgery. 2 weeks go by and he goes to his doc who says "no way!" and fills out some extension of leave forms. Nick brings the forms to work. Nick gets fired for having to take off more time than they felt like letting him take. That shit is just WRONG. And it happens regularly. Honest people need protection from shitty employers. I am done derailing now.)