“We sincerely hope that you can move on and find someone who will make you happy.”
The Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC) is disappointed that the Unifor 594 membership has chosen to reject our best and final offer. The offer is fair for both parties and provides wage increases, pension options, and a choice of Savings Plan or Performance Bonus. […]
“Members of our management team as well as skilled industry personnel have operated the refinery safely, reliably and efficiently since the dispute began on Dec. 5, 2019, and we’re extremely confident they can continue to do so for an indefinite period of time, if necessary,” said Le Dressay.
“The team currently running the facility has met the Western Canadian fuel demand the entire winter and has filled all inventories to ensure market needs will be met. Notably, I can assure Co-op farm fuel customers that the fuel to support their operations for the 2020 season is available and ready to go. The talented women and men currently operating the refinery are among the best and most experienced in our industry, and they are running our equipment exceptionally well.”
The operation of the refinery under the current circumstances is now deemed business as usual for the CRC. Our team will focus on the continued safety of our people and operation as we work to fuel Western Canada through these trying times.
Best news for months unifor proven to be stupider than they look
They have been operating just fine without them and can continue doing so. Ok so that settles it. They are fired if they don’t return to work with the deal they were handed. Done.
“When asked if the province would consider implementing binding arbitration at Wednesday’s daily COVID-19 update, Moe said it is not at that point yet.” Wrong answer. The answer is No we won’t be.
Union bosses would be more likely to agree to negotiations if they suffered the wage loss that their member endure. Also, it appears to me that the major stumbling block is the pension issue. I can’t think of any companies that can carry that cost without worker input any more. Just as I was retiring from the military the government was increasing the member contributions yearly until they reached 50% contributions.
The workers will never make back the money they are losing monthly as they fight to retain an unsustainable benefit. The union bosses are fighting this for multiple unions, and not just these workers. They are pawns, because Unifor knows if they cave on this, other employers will start looking for concessions. The fact is that very few employers can pick up full freight on all the benefits that unions demand today. But that won’t stop them from trying.
At the place where I used to teach, we had a staff association which was an institutional union, of sorts.
I recall that there was some sort of negotiation just about every year, though we voted on a new contract every second or third. Since the negotiating committee was composed of senior teaching staff, there were persistent rumours that one reason the palaver went on for months was that they were trying to sneak in nice retirement packages for themselves.
Relations between our staff association and the institution’s administration varied from one SA president to another. Often, we had presidents who were administration lapdogs and went along with whatever was offered or ordered. There was one president who gave the impression of being on the side of individual members but he was more interested in getting something for the entire association while not even thinking twice about tossing a person overboard if he decided that he or she was a problem that needed to go away.
Only once did we have a president who was willing to go to the wall for us, but she was forced out due to internal staff association politics.
Nailed it.!!
“..Union bosses would be more likely to agree to negotiations if they suffered the wage loss that their member endure….”
This should apply to MLA’s – MP’s & City Council persons as well.
Piss away OUR MONEY.?? YOU Lose too.
Voting yourself out of a job in the worst economic times in a century. LOL!
Unifor members can always learn to code
No, they’re too stupid to code. Really they are.
It is unfortunate that our provincial governments don’t have the backbone to address the teacher’s unions in a similar manner.
and governmental unions. How is it legal that a declared monopoly can be unionized?
C-M it is called COMMUNISM, aka End-term Socialism.
No disagreement. Hence the question.
Isn’t Unifor Leader, Gerry Dias, one of the people fighting to abolish the oil and gas industry?
He’s doin’ a bang-up job of destroying his members’ part in the oil & gas industry. Way to go Jerry! You are taking it to the man! Stickin’ it to that evil billionaire owner of Co-Op. Oh, wait….
Hate to see anyone unemployed in these times, but boy did they ever shoot themselves in the foot. High paying union jobs with incredible benefits when everyone else was taking pay cuts or losing jobs and they go on strike. They didn’t just go on strike, they harrassed people and set up blockades and the unions have been clamoring for carbon reductions.
It’s so refreshing to see someone stand up to these union bullies that Ive been going out of my way to fuel up at coop almost exclusively since Christmas.
I guess they’ll be stocking shelves somewhere in the future. Or maybe they can become hair stylists. Or move to southern Ontario and pick fruit and vegetables…
The union convinced them they could make the grass greener and the members didn’t realize that was pure fertilizer.
No coding in their future, that’s for sure. I wonder how many will become journalists?
The word schadenfreude comes to mind. Not sure if I spelled it correctly.
That looks right.
One of my two most favourite German words, the other being backpfeifengesicht, which I say every time I see Junior.
A couple of observations:
1. What genius thought that this was a tactically good time to continue a strike – oil demand down, unemployment massively high, the plant running without their manpower.
2. Does UNIFOR run everything in the country now? It always reminds me of COMINTERM or SOVIET.
“What genius thought that this was a tactically good time to continue a strike”
In union politics the dumbest and most belligerent person always rises to the top because belligerence is a sign of strength and I guess that probably makes sense when you consider that a union leadership job depends on shaking down the public for more cash.
Just watching these unifor folks driving around yesterday honking their horns and waving flags,then the local president comes on and says we just want to let them to know we are ready to go to work.News flash Nobody frigging cares,Reminds me of Ronald Reagan and the air traffic controllers You can be replaced
Wonder how much do the union bosses take in every month while their sheep is on minimum.
Reality distortion field comes to mind.
Short version: #SAND.
(That’s a pound sign, not a hashtag)
While UNIFOR has shown itself time and again to be nothing more than a collection of belligerent thugs, what about the rank and file membership? These rocket surgeons voted 89 per cent to reject the latest deal while, in the meantime, the plant is running quite well without them, demand for oil and gas has tanked and thousands are out of work. How greedy, stupid and self-important do they have to be to not recognize the obviously shaky bargaining ground on which they stand?
Oh yeah. Government has absolutely no obligation or business to interfere with the labour issues between a private company and its employees. None! To impose a settlement would set a dangerous precedent that would most certainly return to bite them in the ass down the road.
Count on more illegal blockades and stupidity in the near future as UNIFOR continues to erode what little support that it has.
Is that 89% of those people who actually voted, or 89% of the total membership?
The regular union member is lazing about the house with his guaranteed $2000 Trudeau cheque every month. Add that to the strike pay, and the fact that they mostly do not have to physically be on the picket line. We all have to wait for autumn before all the money starts to run out.
Jerry Diaz is another one that few would shed a tear if he contracted flesh eating disease in his crotch.
Reminds me of PATCO.
Remember the MLB umpires strike?
Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end.
Bad times await us and the civil service and unions will be in the headlights. They have to share the pain
“The CRC disappointed Unifor 594 membership votes to reject best and final offer”
I call bullshit.
I don’t think that they are disappointed at all.
I think they are laughing at the poor fools that thought this was a good time to play hardball.
Many years ago I was a member of Unifor’s predecessor, the CAW, in a manufacturing operation. Over time I noticed a phenomenon that I started to think of as a basic law of nature. Out of the union rank and file pool, invariably, the highly ambitious smart people moved into company management, and the highly ambitious dim bulbs went into union leadership.
Every time a unionized thug loses his job Baby Jesus smiles.
I used to work datacom for a bank back when it was all provided by the phone company over their old fashioned equipment people would laugh at now. There was a strike once and service definitely improved. No more being put on hold at 11:55 and realizing around 12:30 that the guy on the other end had gone to lunch. People suddenly started taking problems seriously.
“I think they are laughing at the poor fools that thought this was a good time to play hardball.”
I know a guy who ran a factory that was a union shop. He really did feel bad for them and tried to warn them when something like this happened at a factory he ran at the time. They slashed his tires anyway when he shut the place down. They should have slashed the tires of their leader who promised them the moon.
I want to allay anyone’s fears, Jerry Diaz will still have his courtside seats at Raptors games. The inevitability unemployed…not so much
Non-government unions are taking a beating right now, mostly due to a slowing economy and competition from available cheaper labor. It’s an unexpected by product of increasing immigration. The unions do fill an important social role. We’re all better off because of them. But they’re made of people, and people sometimes make mistakes. They are losing this one.
The workers are getting strike pay and moral encouragement. They can go on for a long time. I hate to think of what Dias has spent flying in support picketers from around Canada. Word is that most hotel rooms are full in Regina. He can hardly back down now. I’m not sure what can fix this mess, but the two sides are not likely to work things out on their own.
Moe is wise to stay out of it.
“It’s an unexpected by product of increasing immigration.”
It’s the reason for increased immigration. It functions to make income less equal. Which is the main goal of the people at the top.