Editor: First B.C. teachers demand a five per cent per year salary increase. Now other unions are starting to demand the same. It saddens me to read the reasoning behind this in the The Times published May 3.
So, because the provincial government decided to siphon $1.2 billion out of ICBC, the union workers figure they can demand unreasonable increases in pay.
Why is no one questioning why ICBC is allowed to keep demanding unreasonable insurance costs? I just spent an entire month鈥檚 salary to insure our car so we can get to work and school.
Yet, just because ICBC has a monopoly, it can charge whatever it wants and then unions and the provincial government can take whatever they want out of what we were forced to pay.
It鈥檚 highly time to privatize car insurance in BC.
Remi van Wermeskerken, Aldergrove
