Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

The fact that this time, they're working in a developed Western nation with decent regulation of industry and a history of unionized workforces is definitely a plus. I hope the workers unionize, or that they're looking to other Canadian mining operations for ideas of pay and benefits that De Beers has to live up to. (It's the generalization feature of unions: even when not every operation is unionized, the union ends up setting the standard by which the others operate. If they want to keep unions at bay, the choice is simple: beat the union deal so the workers won't have a reason to want the union.)