Labour Organization Marks Labour Day with Push For Public Inquiry
By 250 News
Monday, September 07, 2009 09:35 AM
Prince George, B.C.- It is Labour Day, and the B.C. Federation of Labour is calling for answers and change.
It has been a year since three men were killed another three seriously injured at the Farmer’s Fresh Mushroom farm in Langley. The Worker’s Compensation Board has still not completed its investigation, a coroner’s inquest has not been called, and charges have not been laid.
B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair says the province has failed to improve the safety of farm workers, and to end the “discrimination the government introduced when they gutted Employment Standards for farm workers.”
Sinclair says the best way to improve worker safety on farms in B.C. is to conduct a full public enquiry into working conditions in the agricultural sector.”
Meantime, the Labour Federation also continues to push for an increase to the minimum wage raising it to $10 an hour. B.C. now has the lowest minimum wage in the country.
Labour Day celebrations in Prince George will be underway at Wilkin's Park this afternoon with a barbecue from 1 to 5. Hamburgers and hot-dogs will be available along with refreshments.
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Posted by: Farnorth on September 7 2009 2:36 PM
You know, they ought to have some kind of class or inservice for people who want to look like BCFL stooges. Note: To do this properly, you must be paid, misappropriate or otherwise earn at least six figures, starting with a two.
Let's see if I can draft a course for interested persons.
The first thing you need to do is eat yourself into a glutton so you have huge jowls. Next, you have to get a suit (anything but black) and grow a moustache. Women, you're okay to grow a moustache too. The BCFL doesn't discriminate and encourages manly women.
While you go home and eat steak dinners every night in your million dollar mansion while watching your giant 56" TV, cruise into your office every day with a union paid for car to plan whatever free (for you) junkets you're going to, try and think of something which will cause you to naturally scowl. This is VERY important, if you can't look righteously indignant, you won't get the press, and some of the union members paying your big fat wage might decertify. Try and speak in vague, sweeping terms so people in outlying areas who you have never met and certainly don't care to meet will think you're tending to their needs.
Here are some pointers to make you scowl:
Union dues are down, so you might have to let one of the cuties in your office go. Maybe a so and so cut you off in traffic, they obviously didn't know who you are and how important you are to them. Maybe your cleaning lady didn't get the stains out of your undergarments. Anything will do really, just remember, you're always indignant over injustice which never happens to you, and you're looking for someone who employs others to blame, while not resolving anything.
Even though you're very wealthy standing on the backs of union members forced to be in a union, you must look really angry all the time when speaking in public, as if to say, no, shout, "Look what they're doing to us now! I'm with you, working people! I get my hands dirty, just like you!" "Hey cleaning lady, I feel your pain! More money, wage parity, equality, , solidarity, , support your union!"
Now, with all I have just described, try doing even less than this to enjoy seemingly endless money being funneled into your offices for doing absolutely nothing for anyone. You get money seemingly from god himself, maybe you are doing god's work.
Now you're ready to be in the BCFL.