Perhaps this is a case of one Borg hand not knowing what the other Borg hand is doing. Must be a short circuit in the Collective. And UWO exposes the *ahem* misinformation for what it really is.
In order to help university students inconvenienced by the Transit strike, UWO administrators rented some vans, driven by volunteers, to pick up students and staff at select points.
The Borg king president of the UWO staff association referred to volunteers as “scab labour” and demanded this shuttle stop. And, as of last night, the Transit Union said the service amounted to “strike breaking,” and the union was threatening to set up pickets at UWO. See video here: Bus Dispute Hits Western Campus.
The real story is that the Transit Union knew about and approved of UWO’s shuttle service before the strike even began. Read: UWO shuttle bus service rapped.
Gitta Kulczycki, the university’s vice-president of resources and operations, said Western had met with the transit union president before the strike and at that time got approval for the shuttle service.
The university received an e-mail yesterday from the ATU asking it to stop the vans, but had a follow-up phone conversation with Hunniford to clarify the university was doing what they discussed with the union, Kulczycki said.
She said Hunniford was supportive yesterday of what the university was doing.
With their misplaced indignation exposed, the Transit Union has now backed down from the threat to picket UWO.
Now, ask me, please, why I hate unions.
UPDATE:
A friend has this to add: If you follow the “strike-breaking” logic to its end, anyone offering a ride to someone who normally uses the LTC would be considered a scab.
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Why do you hate unions?
Probably a mixture of far right political ideology and high parental income. That’s my guess.
Typical union borg brain — reading comprehension challenged.
“Now, ask me, please, why I hate unions.”
Because your father was rich, probably.
Or because you make less in your job than you would if you were a union member doing similar work.
My father worked on the line at GM for more than 30 years — member of the CAW. No, he was not rich then and he’s not rich now. Plus he had a very low opinion of his own union.
And I’m self-employed and quite happy not having to pay union dues to some useless group.
Boy, the union-collective mentality is so sharp. You think you know me, and it’s obvious you don’t know shit.
Great post.
I have been following this issue through the useless London Free Press, as well as my spies in the Bus department and elsewhere.
Somehow, the image of ‘activist versus activist’ is lost by the various activist media and mouthpieces.
Today’s (Thurs) Freeps is hard to get info out of — lots of broken links. Unfortunately I have no spies on either side of this issue to guide me.
BTW thanks for the link, Fenris. And may I say that your writing is always very entertaining, even when I don’t quite get it.
You should consider leaving your brain to science (when you’re through with it, of course) — there’s some interesting shit going on in there.
How many students voted for this puppet student president? Were they acclaimed?
What is the participation rate for the elections of the student government?
10%?
How many student “fees” are collected and used wisely by the student corporation?
Being held hostage to these crappy monolithic mass transit systems is all a part of ‘sustainability’ planning. Things will get more cintollerable as the carbon and eco-taxing puts more and more commuters out of the income bracket to own private transportation.
You’re probably right.
I just hate when these bullies make shit up to try to get support from the public. It’s good they got called on their lies.
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