Barry who?

maybe he understands the importance of supporting Mining, forestry, Site C they all mean jobs for the private sector which is the main driver for everything.

HuH???? The president of a public sector union with 600,000 members across Canada supporting the private sector?

who knows maybe the lights will come on

Give me a break... the guy is a hypocrite... he won't say one word about the HST to support the private sector working middle class, because the role of CUPE is to hijack as much government revenue for their members as can possibly be extorted out of government. The rest is all just talk for PR purposes.

Give me a break... the guy is a hypocrite... he won't say one word about the HST to support the private sector working middle class, because the role of CUPE is to hijack as much government revenue for their members as can possibly be extorted out of government. The rest is all just talk for PR purposes.

Computer is freezing up a lot today on OP250 for some reason....

CUPE receives way too much money in union dues to the point where their mandate has almost nothing to do with the rights of the workers forced to pay them their dues.

Look at their webpage and you will see all kinds of articles about first nations rights, gay and lesbian support groups, the jewish struggle in Israel against Palestinians, etc....

These causes as worthy as they may be have absolutely nothing to do with fair pay for workers in the union or improving work conditions, it's a network of socialist causes which members are forced to pay into whether they agree with it or not!

If I were in CUPE and had overseas family murdered my Palestinian terrorists, I'd probably be really choked at my union dues going toward supporting people who wish to do my family harm. If a CUPE member happened to disagree with the gun registry, they might be upset that their dues are going toward CUPE lobbying to keep it in place.

When CUPE take sides like this, they alienate many people who like it or not are still forced to pay them like the serfs they are.

Just look at the leadership of these large public sector unions. They pull in over 100 large while they eat drink and be merry, all the while pretending they can relate to working class people. Barry looks like he could polish off a delicious steak and lobster dinner and a case of beer without feeling too bad about the wages of whoever served it to him, and can probably afford it a lot more often than you or I.

Go to cupe.ca and look at their Activists page. Every CUPE member like it or not is paying for this crap. Nearly every public sector union does this, and I feel really sorry for the workers stuck dealing with these pinko freaks taking their money and spending it on lavish living for their leaders, and championing their poisoned ideology in the name of human rights.

The leadership of organized labour is little different than Brezhnev, or the mafia, just a little cleaner.

Excellent points Pojeb_sa. I hadn't realized it was that bad. I don't agree with public sector unions to begin with because its a threat to our democracy... but to see the kind of influence they exert which goes beyond their specific labor issues should raise nine red flags for everyone.

Red flags, eh? ... with gold icons in the upper left hand corner too?