Who runs CUPE

Who runs cupe and who controls it are two different questions. It is run like our governments the small people who are shop steward and small local executives run the organization and help the members from the initial contact right up to adjudication if need be. These are the people who take all the abuse and donate approx. a minimum of 1000 hours without any pay per year to the cause. These are the people who return your phone calls, meet with employers, and fight for service and justice; and they are also the same people cupe and the members toss out like a dirty shirt never to be thought about again once they have served their purpose or have spoken out against the grand puba. Now for the ones who control the organ. They are few in number, they are the top hogs at the national executive board and the reps. who dictate how things are going to be; and if you do not like it, they use their power and influence to stomp you out. They have egos bigger than president bush and they actually think they are running a country—what country we are not sure yet; but one thing is for sure, there is no accountability at this level and they will use all of your resources, being the resources you financed, to take you down when they want to. Just a thought for the day. Watchdog annie.

Canadian Union Of Public Employees Black List

Let us talk about black listing today. Everyone knows what it is but do not like to mention the subject because it should not exist in society today ; but good old cupe has a list and although it is a big secret file just mention someone’s name who has been an outspoken opponent of the powers to be in meetings and conventions and has attempted to enlighten the group and keep things honest. Trust me, they are on the list and will remain on the list until either they retire or die; and who knows, they may still remain on the list in case they come back to life. Righteousness and honesty are not in the vocabulary: they are a figment of one’s imagination in relation to taking the oath of sanctity in the cupe cult. Beware, you are either going to be black listed, a follower, or oblivious to what is; when it comes to this group. Think about it. Watchdog annie.

CUPE and Walmart

Did you ever go to a conference or a large meeting or open your mail box and see the demands from this group as to what you should buy and where you should shop and how you should spend the money you do not have. An example of this is when the dictators at national send out propaganda to the average poor members dictating to them not to shop at walmart or eat at mcdonalds because the shoes are made in china and the hamburg may come from the united states or they are not unionized. Well the truth of the matter is; walmart and mcdonalds ,like it or not, will hire people like us who are over 55 or 60 and give us benefits and work to supplement the little pensions we have. The other factor that comes into existence is the take home money we have to work with does not permit us to buy $200. shoes or $100 dresses/slacks. We can only afford $18. shoes and $20. slacks. When you are making $100,000. per year you can talk like that and spend like that. This is reality and this is how we have to live or barely exist. The one thing that does stick out in my mind is they never mention tim hortons: probably because they had just stopped there for a coffee 20 min. prior while they were practising their speech. Try not to spend that $8. a week you have left over after paying the bills all at one place.

Watchdog annie

Free Meals

Tid bit for today. Did you know that the national pres. and sec. treas. and the rest of the great number of players who sit on the national board along with the reps. that meet in Ottawa on a regular basis receive catered meals and free lunches at various events; but, when it comes to filling out their expense claims, they put in for the complete meal allowance at approx. 1 and ½ the normal rate of regular locals daily permitted amounts.They are ultimately scamming and no one is doing anything about it because they are all in on it. One may ask why the auditors at national do not pick up on it and this is because the claim is for a daily rate and how would they know if they received a free meal unless they were right there---oh, maybe they are right there doing the same?
I think today is the day I give you my name. from now on in just call me Watchdog Annie.

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.

What a waste of your money

Let us deviate from the norm today and steer off into one of the committees. Let us look at the green committee or the environmental committee. Well exactly what is it that they do other than have a group of members on expense accounts fly around the country and sometimes to foreign countries and look at programs referring to saving trees or clean water or clean and safe methods of obtaining electricity. This is wonderful in theory but what has it done, we have shut down numerous pulp mills, we have continued to support drinking out of brooks and lakes as long as we add the chemicals, and we have increased the number of nuclear waste sites in our country in support of a few jobs. The thing is you can not continue to talk out of both sides of your mouth just so you can continue to get elected into the big powerful positions ; or can you, because it seems to be working, members are still electing these politicians who say whatever to whoever as long as they are politically correct and it benefits them. We have to wake up and stand up.

Share your experiance

Everyone who has signed onto this site must have at least one horrific expierence with this group in your lifetime that you would like to share with the others. Please just give an overview of the specific incident and the end result. This site is about reality and not the fiction that is portrayed by cupe. People need to know the truth because after all it is the people who own this organ. and it is the people’s money that runs it; and if our children and our grandchildren are going to belong to a union body in the years to come, then they need to know the truth so they can watch and monitor organ. like this in an attempt to not have the same thing happen to them. A wise lady once said, sometimes you have to shut an organ. down in order to clean up the mess and start all over again. Of course she also went on to say, every outfit that has a big amount of money attached to it will become corrupt over time. These forms of organ.always attract the sorted types.