...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 »
Showing posts with label Union Dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Dinosaurs. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Hopefully Next Year...
...the city unions will have fewer people marching and more watching from the sidelines.
David Frum: Toronto’s library gambit
David Frum Sep 3, 2011 – 9:00 AM ET
To: Toronto Municipal Employees
From: Your Media Consultants
Re: Your Pay
Guys, as far as we are concerned, you are worth every dime. If anything, you’re underpaid! Like it or not, though, we face a challenging perception environment. A lot of people out there think you are overpaid and over-indulged.
We know! Ignorant! Ungrateful! Read More »
David Frum: Toronto’s library gambit
David Frum Sep 3, 2011 – 9:00 AM ET
To: Toronto Municipal Employees
From: Your Media Consultants
Re: Your Pay
Guys, as far as we are concerned, you are worth every dime. If anything, you’re underpaid! Like it or not, though, we face a challenging perception environment. A lot of people out there think you are overpaid and over-indulged.
We know! Ignorant! Ungrateful! Read More »
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Dewar Says It All...
...delegates will return and continue their "verbal battle" at their local Timmies.
David Akin June 19, 2011
Still socialists, NDP guns for government
Canada's New Democrats wrapped up their 50th anniversary party here Sunday with their leader Jack Layton declaring they were united in their determination to form the next government but accused by opponents of being split over party identity and some key policies. 10
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Powers: Organized labour's losing battle
Leaked! Latest memo from Jack!
On the convention!
David Akin June 19, 2011
Still socialists, NDP guns for government
Canada's New Democrats wrapped up their 50th anniversary party here Sunday with their leader Jack Layton declaring they were united in their determination to form the next government but accused by opponents of being split over party identity and some key policies. 10
Powers: Organized labour's losing battle
Leaked! Latest memo from Jack!
On the convention!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Time To Bring Out The Regan Playbook And...
Unions getting set for their summer of discontent
John Ivison: While all eyes have been on Canada Post’s rotating strikes, another labour storm is brewing and is causing much more concern for the Conservative government — a major work stoppage that may start next week
...let the marketplace make the final decisions. I will bet that other major carriers would love to takeover Air Canada operations. In the shorterm bus companies can take up the slack by increasing the number of buses to and from Buffalo.
John Ivison: While all eyes have been on Canada Post’s rotating strikes, another labour storm is brewing and is causing much more concern for the Conservative government — a major work stoppage that may start next week
...let the marketplace make the final decisions. I will bet that other major carriers would love to takeover Air Canada operations. In the shorterm bus companies can take up the slack by increasing the number of buses to and from Buffalo.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
IMHO It Is The Right Decision...
...and if it doesn't save a dime is not the issue. The important consequence of the decision is it WEAKENS THE STRANGLEHOLD UNIONS HAVE IN MILLERLAND.
City council votes to privatize garbage collection
A recommendation to privatize garbage collection in Toronto's west end handily passed a council vote Tuesday evening after a day-long debate over the plan's merits and cost savings.
Sue-Ann Levy
Levy: Contracting out long overdue
City council votes to privatize garbage collection
A recommendation to privatize garbage collection in Toronto's west end handily passed a council vote Tuesday evening after a day-long debate over the plan's merits and cost savings.
Sue-Ann Levy
Levy: Contracting out long overdue
Friday, July 30, 2010
Union Greed...
The CAW wants your money
Surprised ?Union selfishness and new Air Force aircraftWith a jab at Prof. Byers of the NDP.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
An Insight Into The Leadership Controlling 30% Of The Workforce...
...which thankfully is getting smaller and smaller.
Security operation or political theatre?
Fri Jul 23 2010
Union leader suspects that violence at the G20 summit was orchestrated and manipulated by police and the government.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Toronto Silly Hall Has One MAJOR Failing...
...they won't admit that they are the problem and suggestions on how to improve are considered treasonous; look at how quickly they were to attack Niagara Falls.
Constructive advice: Levy
With major projects like the $57 million one designed to replace the nearly 100-year-old trunk watermain on Avenue Rd. perhaps the city might consider continuing the work at night or on weekends.
Transit lesson from NYC: Levy
Man, they sure seem to know how to run a railroad.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
TRUE! For The First "Few Minutes"...
...and then they turned it over to the hoodlums.
Smash and burn and democracy
Margaret Wente
G20 protests: We gave the black-clad thugs everything they wanted
Thousands stood up for humanity
Thousands of people march peacefully along College Street on Saturday to protest the G20 summit
Richard Lautens/Toronto StarTue Jun 29 2010
Anti-summit marchers braved hooligans, police and even the weather to push a people’s agenda.
I am sure if it had been a strike and "the hooligans" were trying to cross a picket line the marchers would have taken swift and appropriate action.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Is Sid Ryan An Anti-Semite Or...
...just another old unionist trying to relive what he considers (many don't) his glory days.
Scratch A Labour Union
Find an anti-Semite;Today’s blockade of the Port of Oakland by anti-Israel forces, in collaboration with the Longshoremen’s Union (ILWU), is the opening of another front in the war on Israel — economic, politcal, propagandistic, and military — which escalates week by week. Will it ever end? Not according to the masterminds of the flotilla:
Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the “Free Palestine Organization” and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah’s al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take “Europe’s refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands. “Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today.” Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a “rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: ‘Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don’t let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.’”
h/t Posted by Kate
Volunteers At Toronto Silly Hall...
...with the blessing of City Unions? Amazing! What next; volunteers riding shotgun on sidewalk litter vacuums?
James: Beauty in diversity: city hall’s backyard garden
June 22, 2010Royson James
Carlos Ruaz, a volunteer, waters the flowers in the diversity garden behind Toronto's city hall.
TARA WALTON/TORONTO STARIt’s a no-name garden that speaks of beauty and love in the heart of the city. And initiative and ingenuity by city workers.
You’re reading about it because one of its creators and sustainers wanted to share it, on the first day of summer, as area workers sat at the lone picnic table for a homemade lunch in the garden of delight.
“Come see the diversity garden,” Juan Sanchez beckoned, as visitors to the rear entrance of city hall tried to navigate their way into the building, stopped by security guards doing pre-G20 checks.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Enuff G20...for today at least...
G8/G20 Local View
Police already provoked, two activists arrested
The rhetoric heats up as the summit approaches
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