Another waste of CUPE money ?

What do you think about these cupe national provincial divisions? What purpose do they actually provide? Honestly, all these divisions separate the national union from the members. This is another blocker and another avenue for cupe to get a little more of your monthly dues and another sector that protects the national interest from getting it’s hands dirty. Locals do not have to belong yet; but there is a large selling job when a new local is formed and becomes part of cupe national. If a group of provincial locals or one large local would like to open it’s own division, it is not permitted under the cupe national constitution. What happened to democracy. Cupe has no problem with unions under their umbrella having associations that discipline and dictate their own code of conduct. Every aspect of the cupe divisions are replicas of the national union structure and agenda. The only possible benefit would be to a very small local who belongs to a divisional group who still has a strike fund to help with the first 9 days;but, if it is that small then the other large locals would probably contribute enough to look after any expenses that would be incurred. If members would do the calculation: for instance, if a union local had 1000 members and they put away 1.00 per member per month away for ten years, at the end of this period they would have approx. 120,000.00 dollars before accumulated interest to be used to assist the strikers; if they had a strike every ten years. Once again, you are probably getting scammed, if you do not require strike pay on a regular contract to contract basis. Try not to let your eyes wander too far away form the Ottawa nerve centre. Watchdog annie