If you really believed in open debate, then you would stop saying this is an ideological (where it doesn’t even make sense that somehow 15 students from different races, religions, faculties and classes came together and somehow all became capitalist conservatives) battle and maybe come to an info session about the lockout and speak calmly and respectively about the side of the staff.

Also, every year there are more fees charged to students. Every year tuition goes up and while it may seem like little to you that everyone will be charged an extra 3-8 dollars, it makes a difference to me. If you don’t have to raise student fees, why should you?

It’s also funny you don’t mention the staff wages or any of their benefits. From almost every student I’ve talked to it seems their sympathy for the staff becomes non existent the moment they realize they get paid $31 an hour PLUS all the other stuff they get.

The SFSS aren’t some big company who are screwing over workers to make themselves richer. They are just a bunch of students who were given a society with a huge deficit and no compromise situation from the union. Jeff is right, it’s about balance and it’s about time the union learn that they can’t just hoodwink and get whatever they want from the SFSS because they are students.