More CUPE foolishness

Did you check out national’s website lately? They are canvassing for some encyclopedia outfit for donations. What is this all about? Sometimes I question as to what other scams are they really involved in outside of supposedly looking after union business for their members and I also question as to what kind of kick backs they are receiving. Do not forget they give exclusive rights to certain companies for selling tee shirts and flags and sweaters,etc. and they promote certain companies to deal with when we look for outside legal advice or purchase flyers,etc.. National has a policy that they can only accept I think it is up to 100.00 in gifts from companies;but I do not think it specifies how many times a year they can accept these gifts or from how many companies. The point being is: if you go to dinner and accept gifts from companies sooner or later you are going to be placed in a situation that may be delicate in nature and you will have to either fire the company you are doing business with or keep them and some people will sway towards keeping them versus firing them due to their personal relationships and what they have received from these companies in perks. As far as I am concerned there should be no gift receiving in any form and national should be only doing the business our members hire them to do / union business ---- end of discussion. Watchdog annie.