By Stephen Gray
“A union member is like an indentured servant.”
Buzz Hargrove, President CAW, page 201 in his book
“Labor of Love”
Hello all you trade union "indentured servants." You
will be “happy” to know that your compulsory union
dues are still funding numerous special interest
groups. In fact, the CAW National Executive Board is
on record as stating it is going to, “double the CAW’s
efforts in support of its social movement partners”
(CAW News, March 24, 2006).
One would think that these “efforts” would be better
spent on laid-off CAW members, since it is their and
other CAW members' compulsory union dues that are
being used for these “social movement partners.” But
hey, how would these so-called “social movements”
survive without the aid of compulsory union dues?
A longtime socialist had this to say: “Social
activists of all sorts look to the CAW for leadership.
Many organizations owe their existence to union
support, and the CAW is a major financial player”
(Duncan Cameron, Associate Publisher of rabble.ca
March 29, 2006). So there you have it confirmed by one
in the know, that others are feeding off your union
dues. Still, at least you can sing “Solidarity
Forever” as you get milked of your hard earned money
for the sake of the “social activists” causes.
In other news, I see Brother Buzz of the Canadian Auto
Workers Union (CAW) got booted out of the socialist
party. He is reportedly very angry about it. Ah, poor
Buzz, he handed over CAW members' hard earned money
for years to the socialists and this is the thanks he
gets. A big socialist boot to his derriere. Still, it
was probably a union made boot and had the union label
so that is a least some consolation for poor old Buzz.
Hey, maybe Paul Martin will give him another big
liberal hug and a liberal shoulder to cry on now that
Buzz has been disowned by the socialists. I wonder if
Buzz could accuse the socialists of a “hate crime?"
After all, the “hate crime” epithet covers just about
everything these days. Or maybe Buzz could go to the
Human Rights Commission and claim he was
“discriminated” against for his “socialist
principles.”
In other news, I see the B.C. Nurses Union lost some
of its union members' money recently. According to the
Vancouver Sun of July 7, 2006, there was
“misappropriation of about $700,000 by the union’s
former finance director…” The article went on to say
that “ The union did not report the matter to police…”
Does this give new meaning to the phrase “Solidarity
Forever?”
And of course Mr. Solidarity himself, Ken Georgetti,
the Big Union Boss of the Collective Labour
Corporation, oops, I mean the Canadian Labour Congress
(CLC), had this to say regarding politicians: “I think
for too long politicians have been allowed to ignore
the needs of their working class constituents in
favour of what they think are loftier goals.” [1]
Well, well, well, is this hypocrisy from Brother Ken?
These union bosses have been ignoring “the needs” of
their members in favour of the “loftier goals” of
special interest groups and using their compulsory
members time and money to do so. This is the guy who
sent out a letter, when he was president of the B.C.
Federation of Labour (BCFL) soliciting funds for an
abortion clinic. And as president of the CLC had this
to say on the so-called “same-sex marriage” nonsense:
“With the passage of the federal equal marriage
legislation, Canada has taken an important step
forward.
"The labour movement - from local activists to
national leadership - stood united with the gay,
lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and played a
critical role in persuading the Canadian government to
pass the same-sex marriage law.
***
"The Canadian Labour Congress was a founding member of
the broad-based coalition, Canadians for Equal
Marriage which led this struggle.” [2]
There you have it from the big mouth of the big labour
boss: “The Canadian Labour Congress was a founding
member of the broad-based coalition, Canadians for
Equal Marriage which led this struggle” for so called
“equal marriage.” Of course the big labour boss and
bosses never polled the 3 million union members of the
CLC on this issue. But hey, as Brother Buzz says: “A
union member is like an indentured servant.” And that
is the reason why this trade union dictatorship
survives in Canada and gets away with squandering
their membership's time and money on non-work related
issues. Legislation is needed to control these trade
union bosses and a public inquiry is needed into the
misuse of union dues in Canada. Collective bargaining
has evolved into collective coercion.
And Brother Buzz Hargrove of the CAW, in the Financial
Post, August 3, 2004, had this to say: “Restrict
ourselves to bargaining only - not on your life!”
And another union big shot, Larry Brown, Secretary
Treasurer of the National Union of Public and General
Employees (NUPGE) is on record as saying this: “We are
involved in matters which have to do with the social
direction of Canada and not just issues at the
bargaining table…”
Stephen Gray
Sept. 2, 2006.
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Endnotes:
[1]
http://canadianlabour.ca/index.php/Opinion_Editorials/749
[2]
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/index.php/pride_sol/Its_Time_to_Celebrat