> I always find it amazing to hear my coworkers who make six figures moving around letters on a screen and eating catered gourmet lunches in the company cafe go

> I always find it amazing to hear my coworkers who make six figures moving around letters on a screen and eating catered gourmet lunches in the company cafe go on a screed about the amazingly overpaid people who teach their kids, deliver their mail, or pick up their garbage... I think most people naturally undervalue the work of others and overvalue the work of themselves. They are underpaid, but people doing X are overpaid. So that plays directly into the public sector union stuff. A lot of people are also vehemently against the taxes they pay, so that also plays directly into anti public union rhetoric. I think those people also don't understand entirely how their tax dollars are spent. We saw that in the U.S. in the 2012 elections when President Obama talked about private companies not building the roads they drive their trucks on everyday. Rather than being logically interpreted as true and understanding that taxes get spent on infrastructure and that helps the economy, it was interpreted as the President telling private companies they weren't responsible for their company's success. I would have guessed Canada's more liberal attitude might have caused better relations between the population and public unions, but it sounds like many of the same issues exist as they do in the U.S.