Jerry Dias is the president of Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union. They represent everyone from janitors to journalists.
Two of their biggest groups, auto workers and people working the oil patch are hurting right now.
Jerry likes to claim he is just like the front line workers. So here he is at last night’s Raptors game in Toronto, sitting in court side seats. Those seats cost $1,200 a piece.
Who paid for them? Union members through dues? Jerry himself? Was it a lobbyist?
And union dues pay for his armed security to. And his 25 cars, 3 private islands, …
jerry is just another politician with different clothes.HE IS JUST ANOTHER PARASITE LIKE ALL POLITICIANS
Shrug.
Gerry’s sheep are even more ovine than turdo la doo’s.
I have to admit that I was sympathetic towards unions for a few years.
I had the unfortunate experience of being fired from a company many years ago and I wasn’t even allowed to tell my side of the story. I thought that having a staff association or a union might have prevented that.
A few years later, I had started my teaching position. The institution’s teaching staff had an association which represented us in dealings with the administration. I thought that was a good deal as there was someone who would represent my views in case there was a dispute, or so I thought.
After a while, I found out that it wasn’t what it appeared to be. The negotiation committee was, during discussions over an upcoming contract, more interested in arranging retirement packages for its members when they decided to pack it in.
In addition, if there was a dispute between an individual instructor and an administrator, the staff member was used as a bargaining chip. That person was treated as a problem that needed to be made to go away and, in return, there might be something “nice” from the administration in the next contract. This was hardly surprising as most of the staff association presidents during my time at the institution were administration lapdogs, milquetoasts, and pantywaists.
After seeing that, any sympathies I had for unions or equivalent bodies vanished. I had serious questions about why I paid my staff association dues as it certainly didn’t do a whole lot for me.
Here below the 49th most states forbid collective bargaining by teachers. There were times when I thought a little help with administration (who take very good care of themselves) would be good, but life suggests that unions are soon co-opted by the bosses and become part of the privileged good-ol-boy/girl continuum, taking vacations and golfing and enjoying the single-malt while laughing at the worker bees who must pay for it all.
hello there unionboy !!!
things goooood in your neck of the woods eh? you win *either way*. employment up, more dues in the bank account,
times are tough, blame anyone but your own rapacious greed. and remember, make absolutely certain you *corner the market*
for any given trade eh?
(psst, gerry, your golden age has LONG passed.)
Unifor fought against oil sands pipelines. Why anybody in Alberta would belong to that Bolshevik, racketeering outfit is beyond me.
Exactly!
Only in Canada would the journalist union(Unifor), make a public statement that the union has formed a resistance against the Conservative Party in the next federal election.
Are you sure that isn’t the towel boy?
To use a line from Shakespeare: “He doth protest too much!”
Jerry (manboobs) Diaz the unelected gangster of the Liberal party PMO and the self proclaimed “resistance” leader against democracy… fogetaboutit… Trudopia is a gangsters paradise, as planned.
shades of Jimmy Hoffa, the gangster wop!
What was Unifor before it was Unifor? This is a new name for me. When I first saw it, I thought “Forestry company?”
“It [Unifor] was founded in 2013 as a merger of the Canadian Auto Workers and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions, and consists of 310,000 workers and…”
Canadian Auto Workers & Communications, Energy and Paperworkers merged in 2013.
The similar sounding Avenor was a Canadian paper company.
When Diaz is sitting in the Senate, and everyone else in UNIFOR has long since lost their pensions, I will repeat the same thing I have long said to all unions; suck it.
Ah yes, one of those that is more equal.
Anyone know how much Jerry Dias makes?
Silly me! I just realized Jerry was there on Unifor business. He was examining working conditions at the basketball game and wanted to ensure he saw the working conditions “at the coal face.” Ya know the conditions the trainers, the scorekeepers, officials, etc. have to work under. So nothing here folks, move along.
Jerry’s biggest concern right now is the soon reduction in dues when the GM plant in Oshawa shuts down, and if team Sockmonkey repeats past performance the loss of above another 3k dues paying members in London Ontario.
That would leave those government stenographers in the media that although they may still be dues paying UNIFOR members, are in the thrall or acolytes of the LPC. They cannot be counted on to hit the bricks if the government is holding their purse strings or worse the government could deem them “essential ” and legislate them back to work.
Poor Jerry, stuck with a smaller take and seeing his cartel subjected to a government hostile takeover.