Underscoring Doug Ford courting of labour, he made the announcement at a Unifor local in Milton, flanked by Jerry Dias, Canada’s most powerful private-sector union leader (Unifor), and Warren (Smokey) Thomas, influential president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
So gross. Fuck all of 'em.
"It's so disgusting to see a union leader like Jerry Dias praising right-wing ideologue Doug Ford for tossing a few paltry crumbs at the working class. Workers deserve so much more than this."
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/145570403888497
Seems Dias is the governments' go-to 'company man'
What They're Saying: USMCA
https://liberal.ca/what-theyre-saying-usmca/
"There are some incredible victories in this deal. Things we've been arguing and fighting for, for the last 24 years."
Alas, selling workers out to the bosses is a long Canadian tradition of politicians and labour-leaders.
https://facebook.com/JerryPDias/photos/with-foreign-affairs-minister-chr...
..podcast
"Jerry Dias Street" was a Dead End
Who asks that a street be named after themselves? Or gets one of their employees to ask?
Earlier this year a UNIFOR National Representative sent a letter to the Mayor of Oshawa asking that street be named after UNIFOR President Jerry Dias.
The members of Unifor in Oshawa were never informed of this egotistical effort, and when they found out they were enraged that Oshawa was being asked to honour a union leader who is associated with:
• Two-tier agreements that have newly hired workers starting at 65% of regular pay, and not getting equal pay until after 8 years.
• The elimination of defined benefit pensions.
• Five contracts in a row with no increases in pensions for retirees.
• Dividing the Canadian labour movement by raiding other unions and pulling out of the CLC.
• Cozying up to pro-corporate politicians like Trudeau, Wynne and Kellie Leitch and joining Chrystia Freeland’s NAFTA team.
Union members pointed out that it would be far better to honour people who had demonstrated real union principles like Bev McCloskey, founder of the Local 222 Women’s Committee who led the fight to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to end discrimination on the basis of sex, or Cliff Pilkey, former Local 222 President, City Councillor and NDP Member of the Provincial Parliament.
The Oshawa Council was bombarded with angry emails from members of Unifor Local 222, and as a result they turned down the request by a vote of 9-2.
Unifor keeps Canadian autoworkers in dark, opposes joint struggle with US workers as strike deadline approaches
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/wsbh-s15.html
"...That 'Canadian course' has seen decades of concessions contracts forced down the throats of an ever declining membership in the auto plants as competing nationalist bureaucrats in the UAW and CAW/Unifor have 'whip-sawed' jobs and wages back and forth across the border to the lowest bidder in a never-ending race to the bottom..."
