Monday, March 24, 2008
Contracting out
This topic has always been a favourite of mine and this is contracting out. Oh, they even have a committee at the national level for this/as if we do not know what contracting out is. About three times per year we receive a glossy expensive handout in the mail or at a local meeting that explains to us what cupe has for an interpretation of contracting out and how their big machine is stamping out contracting out. Well mouthing off does not cut it : sure they make a little effort; but if one of their locals is contracting out the work of another local, they ignore it or if an employer is successful in laying off a great number of employees due to contracting out of their service or their jobs then cupe steps in and tries to organize the new contractor workers and too bad so sad for the employees/members who have been displaced who have paid union dues for anywheres up to 30 years to cupe.if you are going to take on a fight take on a fight and do not kick people when they are down and put your hands in their back pockets looking for the change.
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Here is how our CUPE local handled the sensitive issue of contracting out. In our collective agreement they agreed to contracting out, so long as no existing employee loses their job due to lack of work.
So all the employer has to do is make the lives of existing employees completely miserable, wait for them to quit, then hire a contractor to do the work instead. Meanwhile the employees who remain get paid half of what the contractors get paid, and get to show them where everything is, and how to do the work.
Way to protect our jobs CUPE, you worthless crooks!
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