...opened the gates of mediocrity in the union movement. IMHO if unions want to turn things around it will be done in the boardrooms not the streets.
Kelly McParland: Some helpful suggestions for organized labour
The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves.
The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened unions significantly during the past two decades. “If unions do not change, and quickly, we will steadily follow U.S. unions into continuing decline,” says the paper, which is marked “confidential.”
“We must reverse the erosion of our membership, our power and our prestige.”
Membership in private sector unions is down to 17.4%, compared to 75% in the public sector. In the U.S., private sector membership is even worse — just 7% — and even public sector membership is just 35%. Canada could go the same way. Read More »
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
You Have To Wonder...
...if possibly it is CUPE that is "collapsing" with their cave in on wages in order to try and appease the Ford Nation at the bargaining table. Oh! Let's not forget contracting out garbage collection and hiring freeze...
City’s rush to declare impasse latest step in Ford administration’s attack on public services
January 16, 2012
The City of Toronto’s hasty decision to declare an impasse in bargaining is the “latest step in the Ford administration’s campaign against public services.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
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Ford Nation collapses
January 19, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Inside Toronto city council chambers yesterday, the anti-Ford cuts voting bloc was able to draft a last-minute omnibus motion to save $15 million worth of city services and programming from being cut.
City’s rush to declare impasse latest step in Ford administration’s attack on public services
January 16, 2012
The City of Toronto’s hasty decision to declare an impasse in bargaining is the “latest step in the Ford administration’s campaign against public services.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
more
Ford Nation collapses
January 19, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Inside Toronto city council chambers yesterday, the anti-Ford cuts voting bloc was able to draft a last-minute omnibus motion to save $15 million worth of city services and programming from being cut.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Real Battle Is Yet To Come...
Editorial: Ford’s budget a good start
Mayor Rob Ford began the long, slow process Tuesday of dragging city council, kicking and screaming, into a new era of fiscal responsibility.
...when push comes to shove and 60%+ of every $$$ goes to wages union "negotiations" will be where the real long term savings will come and the sooner Ford lockouts out CUPE the sooner the unions make more "shell concessions" like their proposed wage freeze.
Mayor Rob Ford began the long, slow process Tuesday of dragging city council, kicking and screaming, into a new era of fiscal responsibility.
...when push comes to shove and 60%+ of every $$$ goes to wages union "negotiations" will be where the real long term savings will come and the sooner Ford lockouts out CUPE the sooner the unions make more "shell concessions" like their proposed wage freeze.
James: Rob Ford loses the gamble
2012/01/18 09:53:52
It was supposed to be Mayor Rob Ford’s day of triumph. Instead, it showed councillors the big bad wolf isn’t nearly as scary as they... (63)
2012/01/18 09:53:52
It was supposed to be Mayor Rob Ford’s day of triumph. Instead, it showed councillors the big bad wolf isn’t nearly as scary as they... (63)
...and at stake is the future of ours and our children.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Union Allies Or Union Stooges...
"Class War" coming to Toronto in January if the public service unions get their way
The Toronto Stop the Cuts network, an anti-austerity, union front group co-founded by the author of a notorious anti-Semitic OISE thesis, is planning a last-ditch stand against Toronto`s upcoming budget vote on January 17.Judging by the people committed to participating on the group`s facebook page, it looks like the protest will be a convention of the most undesirable characters Toronto has to offer.
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The Toronto Stop the Cuts network, an anti-austerity, union front group co-founded by the author of a notorious anti-Semitic OISE thesis, is planning a last-ditch stand against Toronto`s upcoming budget vote on January 17.Judging by the people committed to participating on the group`s facebook page, it looks like the protest will be a convention of the most undesirable characters Toronto has to offer.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Let's Give Sid A Break...
Breaking News: Sid Ryan Has a Public Hissy Fit
Here's a most "enlightening" exchange between Sid Ryan and Sun News' Jacqui Delaney.
Update: Charles Adler and Joe Warmington discuss Ryan's appearance at OWS Toronto.
Posted by Robert at 1:15 PM Comments (40)
...he has to be stressed out and tired with all the running between conferences and setting up yurts at Occupy Toronto.
Ryan's boycott call roundly condemned
Sunday, November 20, 2011
IMHO This Is Just Anothr Example Of Mind Manipulation...
You have to wonder why "the organizers" have consistently refused to stand up and identify themselves and put forward their grievances for discussion with those opposed to the tactics being used. Is it possible that "the organizers" know their truth motivation is to further their personal goals. No brown shirts and jackboots for this current group of manipulators.
Five reasons why Occupy failed
As Occupy camps across North America appear to be in their death throes, tt’s hard to see what the Occupy movement has gained, other than considerable attention. Scott Stinson considers why that might be...
Capitalism’s spoiled children
Rex Murphy Nov 19, 2011 – 12:14 PM ET
The Occupy movement does not represent “the 99%,” as its defenders like to claim. They are not a cadre speaking up for the vast proportion of the population against the tyranny or greed of an imagined “1%.” Judging from the speakers I have seen and heard, either on news broadcasts or the multiple sites offering live-broadcast or YouTube coverage, the people in the various Occupy camps represent a petty sub-sample of the hard left; i.e., a range of angry students, homeless and their advocates, and – not insignificantly – some just outright strange people. Like the guy who asked for a moment of silence in “solidarity” with the man who earlier in the week fired shots at the White House and is now charged with trying to assassinate President Obama. The real 99% are surely not looking for solidarity with a potential assassin.
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Occupiers can’t have a monopoly on space
message from ofl president sid ryan: occupy toronto tonight!
Five reasons why Occupy failed
As Occupy camps across North America appear to be in their death throes, tt’s hard to see what the Occupy movement has gained, other than considerable attention. Scott Stinson considers why that might be...
Capitalism’s spoiled children
Rex Murphy Nov 19, 2011 – 12:14 PM ET
The Occupy movement does not represent “the 99%,” as its defenders like to claim. They are not a cadre speaking up for the vast proportion of the population against the tyranny or greed of an imagined “1%.” Judging from the speakers I have seen and heard, either on news broadcasts or the multiple sites offering live-broadcast or YouTube coverage, the people in the various Occupy camps represent a petty sub-sample of the hard left; i.e., a range of angry students, homeless and their advocates, and – not insignificantly – some just outright strange people. Like the guy who asked for a moment of silence in “solidarity” with the man who earlier in the week fired shots at the White House and is now charged with trying to assassinate President Obama. The real 99% are surely not looking for solidarity with a potential assassin.
Read More »
Occupiers can’t have a monopoly on space
message from ofl president sid ryan: occupy toronto tonight!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Cut Red Tape? What Are You.....
...some sort of labor hating right wing ding dong. If red tape is cut the size of government will shrink and the beauracrats and unions will not allow erosion of their power base.
Gerald Chipeur: Top ten targets for the red tape commission
On January 13, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Rob Moore, the Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, would chair a commission to cut red tape and reduce the regulatory burden on businesses.
Minister Moore is a lawyer and well suited to separate the wheat from the chaff. This exercise is necessary because all bureaucrats are slaves to the precautionary principle, which suggests that if a precaution can be taken, it should be taken. The problem is that they don’t take the overall cost to society into consideration.
For the past 25 years, my legal practice has focussed on helping businesses navigate the oppressive regulatory regime created by Canadian governments. There are three levels of bureaucracy in this country and each one produces its own set of red tape.
Here are my top ten recommendations for the Moore Commission:
Statutes and Regulations should not have everlasting life. All new statutes should have 10-year sundown clauses and all new regulations should have five-year sundown clauses, requiring the government to justify any red tape on a periodic basis;
Health Canada should be limited to international and inter-provincial matters. All regulation of retail business in a province should left exclusively to local authorities, as most of what Health Canada does falls under provincial jurisdiction;
Agriculture Canada should be shut down, as there is nothing Agriculture Canada delivers that cannot be delivered at the local level;
CRTC should be merged with Industry Canada. Technology has made this commission of little public benefit — shut it down and leave any necessary functions with Industry Canada;
Canadian Wheat Board should be dismantled. The modern world of international trade makes this agency irrelevant. It should be a crime to jail farmers for selling their own grain;
Canada Border Services Agency should be refocused. Canada should not duplicate the American paranoia about terrorists crossing our mutual border. Instead, we should unilaterally open our side of the border and reallocate border guards to the coastline;
Canada Revenue Agency should no longer regulate charities. The CRA has an inherent conflict of interest and has burdened charities with regulations that effectively deprive them of funds that are intended to help those in need. The Canadian International Development Agency should be given responsibility for charities;
Fisheries and Oceans forces maritime businesses to file confidential proprietary data and intellectual property and then destroys such businesses by distributing this proprietary information to their competitors. All government departments should be absolutely prohibited from distributing any private data without consent;
Parks Canada superintendents seem to resent any human activity in our national parks. All regulation of development in such parks should be left to local communities and not duplicated at the federal level; and
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority should be dismantled and the tax dollars redirected to real police work, as top security experts at Harvard University and in government agree that airport screening is of no value whatsoever.
The foregoing recommendation will, if implemented, do more for small business than all the billions in tax dollars expended to stimulate the economy over the last two years.
Gerald Chipeur, Q.C., is a Partner with Miller Thomson LLP in Calgary, Alberta.
Gerald Chipeur: Top ten targets for the red tape commission
On January 13, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Rob Moore, the Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, would chair a commission to cut red tape and reduce the regulatory burden on businesses.
Minister Moore is a lawyer and well suited to separate the wheat from the chaff. This exercise is necessary because all bureaucrats are slaves to the precautionary principle, which suggests that if a precaution can be taken, it should be taken. The problem is that they don’t take the overall cost to society into consideration.
For the past 25 years, my legal practice has focussed on helping businesses navigate the oppressive regulatory regime created by Canadian governments. There are three levels of bureaucracy in this country and each one produces its own set of red tape.
Here are my top ten recommendations for the Moore Commission:
Statutes and Regulations should not have everlasting life. All new statutes should have 10-year sundown clauses and all new regulations should have five-year sundown clauses, requiring the government to justify any red tape on a periodic basis;
Health Canada should be limited to international and inter-provincial matters. All regulation of retail business in a province should left exclusively to local authorities, as most of what Health Canada does falls under provincial jurisdiction;
Agriculture Canada should be shut down, as there is nothing Agriculture Canada delivers that cannot be delivered at the local level;
CRTC should be merged with Industry Canada. Technology has made this commission of little public benefit — shut it down and leave any necessary functions with Industry Canada;
Canadian Wheat Board should be dismantled. The modern world of international trade makes this agency irrelevant. It should be a crime to jail farmers for selling their own grain;
Canada Border Services Agency should be refocused. Canada should not duplicate the American paranoia about terrorists crossing our mutual border. Instead, we should unilaterally open our side of the border and reallocate border guards to the coastline;
Canada Revenue Agency should no longer regulate charities. The CRA has an inherent conflict of interest and has burdened charities with regulations that effectively deprive them of funds that are intended to help those in need. The Canadian International Development Agency should be given responsibility for charities;
Fisheries and Oceans forces maritime businesses to file confidential proprietary data and intellectual property and then destroys such businesses by distributing this proprietary information to their competitors. All government departments should be absolutely prohibited from distributing any private data without consent;
Parks Canada superintendents seem to resent any human activity in our national parks. All regulation of development in such parks should be left to local communities and not duplicated at the federal level; and
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority should be dismantled and the tax dollars redirected to real police work, as top security experts at Harvard University and in government agree that airport screening is of no value whatsoever.
The foregoing recommendation will, if implemented, do more for small business than all the billions in tax dollars expended to stimulate the economy over the last two years.
Gerald Chipeur, Q.C., is a Partner with Miller Thomson LLP in Calgary, Alberta.
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.