With thousands of hard working SGEU employees out there ready to be not messed with, why would they need actors? (link updated)
… we could lose jobs “to out of province corporations.”
Mark, in the comments,
“So let’s get this straight; they’re using a Toronto-based web host, with a Vancouver ad agency, and a Toronto “technology consulting” firm. Sounds very much like the traits of an organization that ‘loves Saskatchewan’.”
That’s why the backdrops are photos of Saskatchewan.
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Says it all. SGEU’s leadership, which is hopelessly out of touch with rank and file union members or the economic reality that faces the province, simply doesn’t want to hear the truth.
The Strongeagle disertation links to a whole mess of SGEU adverts pointing out how much more ambitious, honest and community-minded SGEU members are than run of the mill Saskatchewanians. How nice that the union bureaucrats can attempt to protect their sinecures by misusing union dues to finance a major propaganda campaign.
And the actor isn’t even from Saskabush, he’s from freekin’ Winterpeg!!! Nice!
What’s wrong, not enough talent in Sask?
A tight circle of do-gooders who care for the good of themsleves, and nobody else.
I used to farm a half section near a highway. If it wasn’t the Dept of Highways who were sleeping under their trucks, it was Sask-Tel. Fire the whole lot of them and go private.
glacierman; please re-read.
Kate; get out of my brain.
Can’t the Wall government simply pass some legislation making union dues optional when they are used on functions not directly related to collective bargaining?
Invoke the notwithstanding clause if necessary, the SGEU (IBEW 2067, etc.) is a cancer upon Saskatchewan that must be eradicated.
The video did not include the following demographic; disabled, African Canadian, and Muslims-we should complain. But alas, comments disabled.
TLA – What’s wrong with do gooders? Real ones do much good at their own expense.
I’m sorry, Mathew Who?
Matthew Walking Eagle?
Cheers
Mark, you cannot leave a comment or message anywhere at the SGEU’s youtube page. Such courage of their convictions is just down right heart warming.
Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan,
“Saskatchewan is a province that has a government employees union, not the other way around.”
The blurb on Jeremy the actor says more than it means to: “Writing was always a gift for Jeremy, When he was attending school he used to take writing and literature very serious because it was what he was best at.”
Who’s Not from Saskatchewan? Are you saying Mathew Strongeagle isn’t from Saskatchewan???
Hell, Don’t Mess with Our Saskatchewan.
Matty boy is from this barren land.
Who am I kidding, Saskatchewan sucks, but I can honestly say that he’s not from Winnipeg. Which by the way sucks even more.
Who’s Not from Saskatchewan? Are you saying Mathew Strongeagle isn’t from Saskatchewan???
Hell, Don’t Mess with Our Saskatchewan.
Matty boy is from this barren land.
Who am I kidding, Saskatchewan sucks, but I can honestly say that he’s not from Winnipeg. Which by the way sucks even more.
Easy on the being from Saskatchewan thing. My daughter was born in Saskatchewan, proving that there are some productive things that can be done on a long dark cold prairie night;-) Of course, it could be argued that it was a “union” thing but that is taking the running gag way too far.
I don’t live in Saskatchewan but I recognize the union sentiment expressed in the phrase, “Our Saskatchewan”. Be it Ontario, B.C. Quebec or Saskatchewan, the public sector unions really do believe that they own the joint and therefore have a right to run it to serve their own interests.
Here’s a bulletin for all you union boyos and gals: We taxpayers don’t pay taxes so you can have jobs. We pay taxes to obtain services. If someone other than unionized public employees can deliver those services cheaper, that is better value for money. I say go for it. .
“These are our services. Don’t mess with them.”
That is Western Civilization in the year 2010. All the rest is mere detail.
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They probably weren’t allowed to use one of their own, and had to hire this guy, because he belongs to the actors’ union. What goes around…
‘loves Saskatchewan’.” You mean the money the East steals to support itys welfare habit, & how fast it can siphons away?
Nothing like the NDP to make a Gold mountain into a worthless slag heap.
Maybe they had difficulty finding a union Indian.
What does it mean? Why do they call it the “Gap”?
Don’t mess with out cushy socialist jobs. We had to get to grade 10 (sort of) and fill out an appy for this gig so we earned it.
Not one can drive a pick up truck, hand out needles, piss people off in government office like we can. So don’t mess with us .. or our Saskatchewbacca.
Reloaded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtsl0–cuY
Feel free to post away. Feel free to link, Kate.
A. Cooper at May 21, 2010 1:45 AM
My Bad! Should have looked at the title before I shot from the hip. Went to the (now updated) link and thought he was the ‘man’.
Proves I should have gone to bed sooner!
Thanks, Simon. I replaced the link with your comments enabled version.
Holy crap, glasnost, did you read the blurb describing session # 2 in that link about conflict management?
“Conflict is woven into the fibre of union life. We need to challenge our employers and we also have differences of opinion with our brothers and sisters. That doesn’t mean each of us is automatically comfortable with conflict. This course will provide participants with a tool kit of skills and insights to help them feel more confident engaging in conflicts and produce
productive results that build the union.”
In other words, don’t mess with the union brass.
“We could lose jobs to out of province corporations.”
I’m thinking this is a lie.
The jobs done by SGEU have to be done by boots on the ground in Saskatchewan.
No necessary jobs will be lost.
What will be lost is union dues and maybe unnecessary jobs due to over employment necessitated by inefficient utilization of union protected manpower.
Unionism on Turtle Island
This course is designed for non-aboriginal workers who want to learn more about Aboriginal issues and who want to work in solidarity with their First Nations and Metis Brothers and Sisters. Issues to be discussed will include, history, spirituality, creating a representative workforce, Aboriginal issues and the bargaining table, opening the union to Aboriginal activists, this course will provide a comfortable and supportive environment in which to explore your attitudes, ideas and questions. Aboriginal workers are also welcome to enroll in this course.
How big of the SFL that Aboriginals are also invited to a session on “Working with Aboriginals”
The one thing I never understood was unions paying dues to unions. We are talking millions of dollars in transfers. I used to ask how much help the government would need if we went on strike. Never got an answer.
Heh, I noticed their hosting was from Toronto yesterday. Was trying to make sure I hadn’t inadvertently gotten my office IP banned from a client’s site. I was just relieved that they seemed to be using all out of province companies at the time and thus didn’t make the obvious connection. Heh.
Andrew @ 11:44 AM:
“How big of the SFL that Aboriginals are also invited to a session on “Working with Aboriginals”
The whole point is that they don’t have to. It’s only non-aboriginals that need to be sent to the re-education camps to learn how to become less raaaacist. Remember, only White folks can be racist.
I wonder if there’s ever been a conference or workshop offering for Aboriginal people along the lines of “Working with White people”? Somehow, I doubt it.
Also note the purpose of the session is to encourage participants to “explore your attitudes”. Three guesses that that means:
1) You’re automatically assumed to be raaaaacist
2) You must submit to our interpretation of yourself and your history
3) We’ll make it comfortable for you to be able to admit to holding racist views, while we accuse you of all manner of crimes and travesties.
Where is your web host located, Kate? I see Florida. I guess you don’t love Saskatchewan.
Um, yeah, and I remember when I started trapping for profit when I was 10, I think that douche is the one that took money from a child in exchange for “bear grease” and failed to explain what the hell you do with the bear after, as a 10 year old child, you’ve greased it and it is pissed off!
It is the SGEU’s modus operandi to claim undying love for Saskatchewan’s people and state enterprises. But their commercial does the opposite of this: it is a facade–a potempkin village–a privatization of their own morals. Remind you of anything? A union perhaps? Besides, the only people who would believe this commercial are overpaid public employees manning artifical positions, such as for the SPMC or SLGA liquor stores.
Kate’s MO, on the other hand, is to promote logic among self-sufficient working people. And low taxes. And personal responsibility. Kate may use a Florida based web host, as it’s probably 20% cheaper. I wish my government would save me some money by cutting similar corners. I also reckon Kate’s beer comes from Alberta by the truckload, as does many Sask public employees’. Keyword: Kate most definitely doesn’t love the SOCIALIST Saskatchewan, and is not hypocritical, as opposed to SGEU.
Steve, anyone who speaks out against the SGEU has Saskatchewan’s best interests at heart. And besides, Kate’s not taking our money to make glitzy ads telling us that our choice at the polls was a mistake. There’s very little that SGEU members do that couldn’t be done more effectively and efficiently – and more intelligently – in the private sector. This ad, and the billboards that are plastered all over the province, are simply self-serving propaganda produced by an organization that thinks we’re too stupid to notice.
If they want to produce ads about losing jobs from Saskatchewan, perhaps they should put their considerable advertising budget where their hypocritical mouths are.
Was there not an SGEU strike in 1980?
The one where the government of the day let them stay out for months because:
a) Nobody missed them.
b) It saved the taxpayers a few million bucks a week.
I think the only reason there was a settlement back then was thanks to the CBC and the Leader Post…. incessant propaganda on behalf of the unionistas.
I’ve known a lot of these “brave and caring” souls over the years and not one of them was in it for the good of the people who paid their salaries or wages. Knowing this puts the lie to any of these propaganda efforts.
When the chips are down there is not one of these people who couldn’t be replaced with someone willing to be held accountable for their performance. People who in many cases would actually earn more.
The key word being EARN.
It looks like a Hutterite family, an Asian, A first nations man and an angry older woman who looks like she could be a union steward…diversity is alive…what about the rest of the people in the province? This is such a pathetic commercial and just re-enforces our belief that the NDP are so out of touch with the new Saskatchewan. Brad Wall should remember his credo before he was elected….put your stamp on this province Mr. Wall and keep moving ahead…the less union slackers we have in this province the better we will all be… I know I work with union types and they are holding back this province. Keep up the good work Mr.Norris and keep bringing in those labour bills.