Jack Weber

Who cares who you are AND you advocate for a poorly informed "white paper" because you don't even understand the labour legislation in Ontario... Still on the compulsory union membership thing,huh? I hope you also are advocating for all PRIVATE business to open up thier books to public,as well... Being a former union member,you should know that all financials are available to any member who requests it and is announced at the monthly meetings for DUES PAYING MEMBERS... MeritCanada,The Fraser Institute,and,The National Citizens Coalition thanks you for defending workplace "FREEDOM"...

I wonder if Gerry Nicholls is assisting MeritShop Canada in it's advocacy for Bill C-377?? 'Cause it's all about "the freedom",right? Another spectacular diversion,Peeves,from Wine Tasting Tim's attempt at RTW by stealth in Ontario... Kudos...

Is this your best "Don Blankenship" impersonation??? The NAM thanks you for your obedience...

erm...Charles De Gaulle...Rene Levesque...Decendants of Joan of Arc... WGAF...

Yes I did.. But in your "classic liberal" infantile mindset,you can't get past your "Let the market be the market" foolishness...

Wrongo,sport... They are not forced to pay union dues...They can have those dues directed to the charity of their choice AND get the resulting tax break for this... I shouldn't have to tell a former union negotiator? about these legal matters,should I? This is done under the express knowledge that those INDIVIDUALS are declining representation and are on their own... Agency Shop...Look it up!!! This is far fairer than the corporate silliness that Mr. Hudak,and any other RTW loving fool,is promoting... The rest of your overly verbose drivel is blathering about the public sector and doesn't even scratch the surface of the real issue here... Back to "steward school",kiddo...

So Peeves.. Would your public sector union legislative union busting (essentially RTW legislation) apply to the private sector,as well?

And I repeat,as someone who knows better than to believe the crap you've just posted... Under 'Agency Shop",no one...NO ONE ...Is forced to join a union if they don't want to.."Agency Shop" is the framework we work under in the province of Ontario..But,of course,you knew that... Hudak has the right idea?? To legislatively bust individual union locals to drive down the standard of living even more?? We know this will inevitably happen because we all know that the "Union Wage" sets the bar in industry... So does he and his willing legislative and corporate aparatchiks.... My suggestion is that you look at wage and benny plans in RTW states in the US to see where this would go if it were to pass... Let me guess..You're an advocate for the "meritocracy" of non-union employment??

Very true... Two examples that I can think of off the top of my head are the non-union auto sector in Ontario that pays very similar wage and benny packages as the Big Three plants... AND.. The steel producers,particularily in Hamilton....Dofasco (now Arcelor/Mittal) and Stelco (now U.S.Steel) have very similar wage and benny plans but only one is unionized (U.S.Steel)...

WORKERS...er...(unemployable illiterate wannabe teachers)...OF THE WORLD....UNITE!!!!

Peeves... I don't disagree with any of this... And I can relate to this from something that happened to me recently... I'm a USWA member and I got robocall from Ken Neumann back in early March asking me to vote for Brian Topp for the leadership of the NDP.I'm not even an NDP member!!! So a small portion of my dues went to Ken Neumann to record a message to call me to vote for Brian Topp when I couldn't vote in that leadership event even if I wanted to!!! HOWEVER...This is small potatoes compared to what Mr. Hudak is proposing.Because,if one looks into what RTW legislation is all about,it's about legislative union busting under the guise of..You guessed it... "Individual Worker Freedom and Liberty!!!" Like the NAM or The Koch Bros. ever cared about that!!!

Saved jobs or tried it's very best to save jobs only to be rooked by management in the end??? In the last 17 years I've worked at 3 unionized establishments where the union backed off and took less than it could have asked (in one case took a 5 year contract with no wage increases except for CPI) and still both companies effed the membership... The most recent case is just last weekend where we avoided a strike by signing a 4 year deal and took less than 2% in the first 3 years and 2% in the 4th...This is after management informed the bargaining cimmittee 3 weeks before potential job action that they had not paid a cent into the pension fund for two(2) years in direct contravention of the law.The bargaining committee came back and ssaid that we can,by law,compell you to make a 15 million dollar lump sum payment to top up the delinquent deficiency...The company shot back that they would have to liquidate assets to make good (which is total BS and even they knew it!)...However,the UNION came up with a comprimise solution to remedy the situation by allowing this upstanding individual to make up the $15 million deficiency over the life of the 4 year agreement...Nevermind the fact that we have mant retiree's,AND SOON TO BE RETIREE'S, who wont see a pesion increase because,by law,no increases can be made until the deficiency is topped up.AND THIS IS A FUND THAT IS FULLY AND COMPLETELY FUNDED AND ISN'T INDEXED!!!! So,to save the owner sorry,delinquent,law breaking hide,we had to take a hit... As to your contention that business doesn't want to deal with unions..Of course they don't...Unions are a correct check on their way to extreme profiteering.Look who's behind the Right to Work movement as it relates to lobbying in the US and it should tell you all you need to know about the reasons for anyone advocating for any form of RTW legislation... Then please look at the links I've provided from the AFL/CIO website...Before you assume the statistics are "union biased",most of the stats are from the US Department of Labour and are simply a reflection of the numbers provided...The ask yourself if that's the type of workplace environment you would want to work in??? Because that's what Mr. Hudak is aiming for and that is certainly what Minister Raitt and the Corporate Conservative Party of Canada is advocating for with Bill C-377...

We can bring Capitalism down with complete and total illiteracy taught by a self important,narcissistic kid who thinks spelling and grammar don't matter but Karl Marx does...

That's it,isn't it... Over the last 30 years,people have almost become conditioned to demand those that make more than them make less!!... Never understanding that if that happens,thier standard of living will stagnate or even drop!!! And the downward spiral of our standard of living and working conditions continue and the folks at the top laugh at all of us because we've allowed ourselves to be conned and duped by those who would want to keep us down...

Geroy Simon passes Milt Stegall as the all time CFL pass receiving leader late in the 4th quarter... Game stopped...Commissioner on the field...Ball headed to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in Hamilton...

Bummers hangin' in there with BC on the road!!!

I've suspended my personal policy of putting folks like you on ignore for the moment because this is far too important... Seriously,what planet are you living on??? Do you understand the precedent setting nature that this proposed legislation by Hudak would have? Their is no way on God's green earth that this will only apply to the public sector! It will,necessarily,apply to the private sector as well!! And it's designed to do so!!! I have my problems with the public sector also,however,this is definately NOT what this is about...It is the provincial attack,started by the federal Tories( with regards to Bill C-377) to attack the Rand Formula and "compulsory" union membership.As I have illustrated many times,we work under the framework of Agency Shop" in this province and no one...NO ONE... is forced to join a union against his/her will... It's about pitting one worker against the other and forcing individual union locals to represent free ride members to the financial detriment of that local... And it,by definition,is designed to make people poorer under the guise of "personal freedom" and is being heavily lobbied by corporate entities who have an all too sympathetic ear in Ottawa,and clearly,in opposition at Queens Park...

It applies there...It applies here... Right to Work for less... http://aflcio.org/Legislation-and-Politics/State-Legislative-Battles/Ongoing-State-Legislative-Attacks/Right-to-Work-for-Less Check out that $5,000 a year cut in pay folks'll take by accepting this!!! Check out that increase in death and injury on job increase that'll happen with this... Yeah...It's all about the individual workers freedom in the workplace...

Wow!! What a shocker... Wine Tasting Tim wants to have Right to Work legislation in Ontario to keep things "competative"... In otherwords,he wants business to write the labour laws in the province because "business knows best"... I thought the Dominatrix of Labour in Ottawa would go after The Rand Formula,but obviously,she's working hand in hand with the Big Business/Union Busting "Merit" shop movement... Neocon Wine Tasting Tim to the rescue where the rubber meets the road ,as it relates to labour legislation provincially... What a gutless weasel Hudak is... It's a sad day when these gutless,coporate bootlicking cowards have any sway with the public at all....

Sakatchewan's offence was full value for the effort...Total domination of a very poor Hamilton defence.. No D-Line pressure/Poor tackling/Poor coverage...Trading Field Goals for Touchdowns... Other than Chevon Walker and Chris Williams effort on the offensive side of the ball,no one else showed up... Hamilton deserved every ounce of that loss...

Interesting 1st half in the Sask/Ham game... Hamilton D really can't get alot of pressure on Darian Durant but they have made adjustments elsewhere and have slowed down the Sask O... Stupid penalties and non-challenges have been the Ti-Cat undoing so far.Burris and Chris Wiliams have been on fire,but,other than the run by Chevon Walker,the offence hasn't done a whole lot. Kinda what I expected from both teams after 2 pre season games and only 1 month in camp...

What is up with the Rider helmets???

Our resident "teacher" feels it's more about thugs and "grunting"... Anyway,soccer is irrelevent and the fans of that stuff can bask in their knowledge that they follow something THEY think is superior... Now on to REAL football!!!

Jones was talking about FEMA camps...Skolnick was talking about black helicopters...And Icke was talking about his alien lizard people theory... It was totally crazy...Hillarious,though,because they took phone calls!!!!