By working side by side with the year-round workers, we have begun to learn the meaning of solidarity. They work to serve society as well as to support themselves, their families, and their needs and dreams for the future. We do exactly the same thing. Their issues are our issues. You play a dual role. As an employer, you oversee the services we provide through our labour. As government, you are answerable to the people (i.e. to us) for the services we provide, as well as for everyone's wellbeing and future (including us). We therefore call upon you to remove the underlying cause of this strike by removing your demands that we abandon conditions earned by us and our colleagues in the past. If, as you appear to claim, society is living beyond its means, then go knock on the door of those who have means. We demand that you put an end to this dispute immediately without legislation or other draconian methods, but by free and respectful collective bargaining.