The Canadian Union of Postal Workers “has no plans to block mail to and from Israel AS OF YET.”
26 Replies to “Scratch A Leftie”
Unions are to dumb to realize that union and union activities are not tolerated in Islamic societies. Unions in Israel have far more freedom then they do anywhere else in the M.E.
Should this action prove to be true, ( didn’t they pass some anti Isreal motion at last convention) the governments should take immediate action to decertify the union, and fire all of the members. Think Reagan and the air traffic guy.
The threat that this action would be taken might wake up all those honest members to take action against their leftist leaders.
And just to make things interesting, deny them any U.I, benefits.
Unions of all types have done more to ruin our economy and blackmail cdns for too many years.
All your mails are belong to us.
I am still trying to figure out what concern the Middle East is to a union of Canadian civil servents…..
Is this really what CUPW has a union leadership for? I must remember to ask my letter carrier. Yep I am lucky enough to still have delivery right to the house/
I am completely and totally opposed to unions in this modern era; they are parasitic on the workers and do enormous harm to the economy by preventing the goods and services from being marketable.
The unions have destroyed the auto industry in Ontario by hiking the costs of their goods beyond consumer ability to pay. They then insist that the Canadian taxpayer step in to fund the employees – even though their goods aren’t selling! Why should other workers pay their salaries to fund the much higher salaries of others because the parasitic union has moved that company out of the economy?
Same with the public service; the unions have moved the focus from providing services to a focus only on the wages and benefits of the workers. Result? An overpriced and unaccountable civil service and no focus on services.
As for the postal workers and their union, a union has no business getting involved in politics. Political decisions are the prerogative of the individual and the parasitic union executive, who all get their salaries out of the wages of the workers, have no business making political statements on behalf of those workers. They have no right to take away the political opinions of those workers and claim them for their own.
The other moldy car-tire sandal is about to drop.
Some muslim letter carrier , will now object to carrying dirty Joooooo mail.
Or some muslim will object to having their mail touched by dirty Jooooos.
Barbara Hall(monitor) and the HRC kangaroos will agree with the Islamic fundamentalists again, and we’ll have separate mail sorting and delivery systems for the Waaaaaa!!habist death cult.
Yeah, I was wondering if other folks would pick up on that menacing ‘as of yet.’ And that whole canard about ‘we don’t hate Jews, just the country the Jews happen to live in’ is getting a bit threadbare. Stuff about obama at http://www.darrellepp.com/?p=109
In Highgate Cemetery aprox 6 feet bellow ground level someone is saying “aw chutzpah”.
until Israel fully complies with international law, including a raft of UN resolutions.
— Denis Lemelin
Does Lemelin really believe Palestinians shooting dozens of rockets at civilian targets inside Israel is legal and approved by the United Nations?
(And that is when they are not strapping a bomb and exploding themselves in a public place killing dozens of women and children…)
How is it possible for leftists to see only one side of a coin?
What is wrong with those people ?
And why are they not in a padded room heavily sedated ?
The union president’s statement is absurd and irresponsible, unless there is something in the CUPW contract or Canada Post policies which allows the union to decide which mail to deliver or not, based on its political views. I doubt it.
However, official CUPW policy and actual practice can be two different matters.
It would be interesting to verifiably test the latter.
aren’t you the gal who’s pals with neo-nazi marc lemire or have i confused you with another friend of israel?
ET – agree. Decades ago before federal agencies to oversee safety in the workplace, think coal miners, I could see unions. Unions have morphed into brutish monopolies that have lowered the productivity and profits in most modern industries they’ve taken root from automakers to airlines to education.
And, just who the hell are they to be using member’s dues for political agendas? There have been successful lawsuits by members on that issue here in the US.
Some Jewish postal employee needs to file a harassment in the workplace lawsuit. They might “yet” stop delivering mail from their Jewish relatives in Israel, now that’s down, dirty and personal.
Richfisher – More likely, your aforementioned Muslim letter carrier will pull a Minneapolis cab-driver and refuse to deliver, say, porn; or lingerie catalogs; or the Sears catalog.
I just love these guys, they don’t need to block mail they just LOSE it!!
I sent my package to the Federal Court of Appeal recently by PRIORITY COURIER; which means it is supposed to be bar code tracked and signed for upon delivery.
The geniuses managed to lose the package in its entirety and have no explanation as to its whereabouts. Maybe it got lost in Tasmania, where all those little devils gum up the works.
I did however, get a full refund and billed Canada Post for $65.00 in photocopying costs on renewable Canadian pulp and paper.
Its the Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner Hour!
I thought things got better since the 1980s when they lost my paycheque which was supposed to come by REGISTERED mail from Nipawin, Saskatchewan where I worked to provide ‘green’ hydro electric power for all my favorite farmers who know how to get a good ethanol still running.
If CUPW can’t even get REGISTERED and PRIORITY COURIER packages to its proper location, how on earth is CUPW going to represent its workers political opinions half a world away?
But I experienced the same nonsense by the BCTF years ago when they decided to be the political cadre unit for teachers on foreign policy, abortion on demand, and a host of other issues too lengthy to recount.
Voicing my discontent for the union/BCTF funding of, in my view, unconscionable practices, the labour tribunal decided I was a big fat duplicitous snake in the grass, resulting in me being given the sack.
Same old politics, different century.
Nothing has changed, yada, yada, yada…
Democracy in Canada, a new comedic movie:
MY BIG FAT GREEK TRAGEDY!!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Hey! I used to live in Nipawin! My sister was born there, too!
Unbelievable! These overpaid, bigoted fools are public SERVANTS, they deliver mail for a living and they have no other purpose. If they refuse to deliver mail or lose mail then they are no good and as Mary T says: fire them.
The postal servants have exposed their bias through their union. No mail is safe in this nation (I too know this through experience – the postees in Whitehorse threw most of the Canadian Alliance brochures in the commercial garbage bins in 2004) but the servant who tells his master that he will not follow the rules that the boss (Canadian people) has set up is ALWAYS fired; no pension, no EI, no access to any other public servant job in the future!
Isn’t it time for Two Minutes’ Hate, Jeff?
Should this action prove to be true, ( didn’t they pass some anti Isreal motion at last convention) the governments should take immediate action to decertify the union, and fire all of the members. Think Reagan and the air traffic guy.
Amen to that. The question is whether there’s anybody in the current Canadian government with the fortitude to do it. I sure don’t see anybody in my country’s current government like that. Love Reagan (which I did and do) or hate him, there was no question that the man had a pair.
Spot on ET. This is the problems with unions to-day. If they stuck to their mandate of negotiating wages and working conditions (in fact they should be forced to stick to their mandate), then I might have some sympathy for them as long as workers were not forced to join. However that is not the case.
I am wondering if we shall see any government action concerning this, but I shall not hold my breath in light of the silence concerning the on-going abuses by the HRCs. The issue is not about their ranting against Israel, for I would say the same if they made the same declaration against China or any country. These are not elected representatives of Canada and have no business whatsoever playing politics of any stripe.
Unions must feel they have the right to dictate policy..being a lowly Union official was not good enough for Buzz Hargrove..he has bigger fish to fry..
Well I am a federal government employee the union has both been useful and a pain in the butt at the same time. When working for a large organization, the union is only to make them pay attention, however as time goes by the union becomes more engrossed in non-labour/contractual affairs. Unions can play a constructive role, if allowed to but often they can’t either by design or by leadership. A union is forced also to defend all members equally, I know several cases where the steward had to defend someone who they would much rather pound the snot out of, because the member is a useless piece of crap endangering everybody. Also my sister who used to be a labour adjudicator told me that one of the worst employers to work for were unions and they often treated their workers badly and she had to oversee some very nasty cases where a union had to represent workers against another union. Then of course there are inter-union wars for memberships. Currently where I work, we have an excellent top brass who has a excellent working relationship with our no nonsense shop steward where they sit down once a month a resolve issues before they become to big.
Any who refuse should be fired. Take a lesson from Reagan and the ATC strike.
Wow, what a coincidence. I sent a package to Israel today — the first ever in my 52 year life. The Canadian postal workers must have their panties twisted lately!
Posted by: ET at April 30, 2008 11:49 AM
Hefty pension funds backing them?
Guys, guys, take it easy. Don’t take out your frustrations on the rank and file front line union members who sort and deliver the mail. The real targets should be the left leaning union leaders. And don’t expect the rank and file to vote against them, they just don’t(for the most part) have an informed knowledge or interest in what their leaders do. Besides, it’s damn hard to dislodge entrenched fat cat union leaders.
Imagine our pravada’s whine dance had he had said Palestine instead?
Would be the headline for weeks and weeks.
Unions are to dumb to realize that union and union activities are not tolerated in Islamic societies. Unions in Israel have far more freedom then they do anywhere else in the M.E.
Should this action prove to be true, ( didn’t they pass some anti Isreal motion at last convention) the governments should take immediate action to decertify the union, and fire all of the members. Think Reagan and the air traffic guy.
The threat that this action would be taken might wake up all those honest members to take action against their leftist leaders.
And just to make things interesting, deny them any U.I, benefits.
Unions of all types have done more to ruin our economy and blackmail cdns for too many years.
All your mails are belong to us.
I am still trying to figure out what concern the Middle East is to a union of Canadian civil servents…..
Is this really what CUPW has a union leadership for? I must remember to ask my letter carrier. Yep I am lucky enough to still have delivery right to the house/
I am completely and totally opposed to unions in this modern era; they are parasitic on the workers and do enormous harm to the economy by preventing the goods and services from being marketable.
The unions have destroyed the auto industry in Ontario by hiking the costs of their goods beyond consumer ability to pay. They then insist that the Canadian taxpayer step in to fund the employees – even though their goods aren’t selling! Why should other workers pay their salaries to fund the much higher salaries of others because the parasitic union has moved that company out of the economy?
Same with the public service; the unions have moved the focus from providing services to a focus only on the wages and benefits of the workers. Result? An overpriced and unaccountable civil service and no focus on services.
As for the postal workers and their union, a union has no business getting involved in politics. Political decisions are the prerogative of the individual and the parasitic union executive, who all get their salaries out of the wages of the workers, have no business making political statements on behalf of those workers. They have no right to take away the political opinions of those workers and claim them for their own.
The other moldy car-tire sandal is about to drop.
Some muslim letter carrier , will now object to carrying dirty Joooooo mail.
Or some muslim will object to having their mail touched by dirty Jooooos.
Barbara Hall(monitor) and the HRC kangaroos will agree with the Islamic fundamentalists again, and we’ll have separate mail sorting and delivery systems for the Waaaaaa!!habist death cult.
Yeah, I was wondering if other folks would pick up on that menacing ‘as of yet.’ And that whole canard about ‘we don’t hate Jews, just the country the Jews happen to live in’ is getting a bit threadbare. Stuff about obama at
http://www.darrellepp.com/?p=109
In Highgate Cemetery aprox 6 feet bellow ground level someone is saying “aw chutzpah”.
until Israel fully complies with international law, including a raft of UN resolutions.
— Denis Lemelin
Does Lemelin really believe Palestinians shooting dozens of rockets at civilian targets inside Israel is legal and approved by the United Nations?
(And that is when they are not strapping a bomb and exploding themselves in a public place killing dozens of women and children…)
How is it possible for leftists to see only one side of a coin?
What is wrong with those people ?
And why are they not in a padded room heavily sedated ?
The union president’s statement is absurd and irresponsible, unless there is something in the CUPW contract or Canada Post policies which allows the union to decide which mail to deliver or not, based on its political views. I doubt it.
However, official CUPW policy and actual practice can be two different matters.
It would be interesting to verifiably test the latter.
aren’t you the gal who’s pals with neo-nazi marc lemire or have i confused you with another friend of israel?
ET – agree. Decades ago before federal agencies to oversee safety in the workplace, think coal miners, I could see unions. Unions have morphed into brutish monopolies that have lowered the productivity and profits in most modern industries they’ve taken root from automakers to airlines to education.
And, just who the hell are they to be using member’s dues for political agendas? There have been successful lawsuits by members on that issue here in the US.
Some Jewish postal employee needs to file a harassment in the workplace lawsuit. They might “yet” stop delivering mail from their Jewish relatives in Israel, now that’s down, dirty and personal.
Richfisher – More likely, your aforementioned Muslim letter carrier will pull a Minneapolis cab-driver and refuse to deliver, say, porn; or lingerie catalogs; or the Sears catalog.
I just love these guys, they don’t need to block mail they just LOSE it!!
I sent my package to the Federal Court of Appeal recently by PRIORITY COURIER; which means it is supposed to be bar code tracked and signed for upon delivery.
The geniuses managed to lose the package in its entirety and have no explanation as to its whereabouts. Maybe it got lost in Tasmania, where all those little devils gum up the works.
I did however, get a full refund and billed Canada Post for $65.00 in photocopying costs on renewable Canadian pulp and paper.
Its the Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner Hour!
I thought things got better since the 1980s when they lost my paycheque which was supposed to come by REGISTERED mail from Nipawin, Saskatchewan where I worked to provide ‘green’ hydro electric power for all my favorite farmers who know how to get a good ethanol still running.
If CUPW can’t even get REGISTERED and PRIORITY COURIER packages to its proper location, how on earth is CUPW going to represent its workers political opinions half a world away?
But I experienced the same nonsense by the BCTF years ago when they decided to be the political cadre unit for teachers on foreign policy, abortion on demand, and a host of other issues too lengthy to recount.
Voicing my discontent for the union/BCTF funding of, in my view, unconscionable practices, the labour tribunal decided I was a big fat duplicitous snake in the grass, resulting in me being given the sack.
Same old politics, different century.
Nothing has changed, yada, yada, yada…
Democracy in Canada, a new comedic movie:
MY BIG FAT GREEK TRAGEDY!!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Hey! I used to live in Nipawin! My sister was born there, too!
Unbelievable! These overpaid, bigoted fools are public SERVANTS, they deliver mail for a living and they have no other purpose. If they refuse to deliver mail or lose mail then they are no good and as Mary T says: fire them.
The postal servants have exposed their bias through their union. No mail is safe in this nation (I too know this through experience – the postees in Whitehorse threw most of the Canadian Alliance brochures in the commercial garbage bins in 2004) but the servant who tells his master that he will not follow the rules that the boss (Canadian people) has set up is ALWAYS fired; no pension, no EI, no access to any other public servant job in the future!
Isn’t it time for Two Minutes’ Hate, Jeff?
Should this action prove to be true, ( didn’t they pass some anti Isreal motion at last convention) the governments should take immediate action to decertify the union, and fire all of the members. Think Reagan and the air traffic guy.
Amen to that. The question is whether there’s anybody in the current Canadian government with the fortitude to do it. I sure don’t see anybody in my country’s current government like that. Love Reagan (which I did and do) or hate him, there was no question that the man had a pair.
Spot on ET. This is the problems with unions to-day. If they stuck to their mandate of negotiating wages and working conditions (in fact they should be forced to stick to their mandate), then I might have some sympathy for them as long as workers were not forced to join. However that is not the case.
I am wondering if we shall see any government action concerning this, but I shall not hold my breath in light of the silence concerning the on-going abuses by the HRCs. The issue is not about their ranting against Israel, for I would say the same if they made the same declaration against China or any country. These are not elected representatives of Canada and have no business whatsoever playing politics of any stripe.
Unions must feel they have the right to dictate policy..being a lowly Union official was not good enough for Buzz Hargrove..he has bigger fish to fry..
Well I am a federal government employee the union has both been useful and a pain in the butt at the same time. When working for a large organization, the union is only to make them pay attention, however as time goes by the union becomes more engrossed in non-labour/contractual affairs. Unions can play a constructive role, if allowed to but often they can’t either by design or by leadership. A union is forced also to defend all members equally, I know several cases where the steward had to defend someone who they would much rather pound the snot out of, because the member is a useless piece of crap endangering everybody. Also my sister who used to be a labour adjudicator told me that one of the worst employers to work for were unions and they often treated their workers badly and she had to oversee some very nasty cases where a union had to represent workers against another union. Then of course there are inter-union wars for memberships. Currently where I work, we have an excellent top brass who has a excellent working relationship with our no nonsense shop steward where they sit down once a month a resolve issues before they become to big.
Any who refuse should be fired. Take a lesson from Reagan and the ATC strike.
Wow, what a coincidence. I sent a package to Israel today — the first ever in my 52 year life. The Canadian postal workers must have their panties twisted lately!
Posted by: ET at April 30, 2008 11:49 AM
Hefty pension funds backing them?
Guys, guys, take it easy. Don’t take out your frustrations on the rank and file front line union members who sort and deliver the mail. The real targets should be the left leaning union leaders. And don’t expect the rank and file to vote against them, they just don’t(for the most part) have an informed knowledge or interest in what their leaders do. Besides, it’s damn hard to dislodge entrenched fat cat union leaders.
Imagine our pravada’s whine dance had he had said Palestine instead?
Would be the headline for weeks and weeks.