With the full verdict issued yesterday in the unions’ legal challenge to Bill 42 restricting spending by third parties in an election, the judge chose to sidestep the question of the democratic rights of workers who do not support their union’s political views.
Two educators: Gloria Laurence, a CUPE member, and Wendy Weis, a member of BCTF, were parties to the court case to try to prevent their unions from spending their mandatory dues to attack a government they support.
See the full text of ICBA’s news release on this issue at www.mydues.ca.
ICBA President Philip Hochstein, in an op-ed in today’s Vancouver Sun, is calling on government to stand up for worker rights on use of union dues.
“Unlike every other democratic country in the world, and despite a Supreme Court ruling that forced union membership is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, British Columbia clings to labour laws that force workers to join unions, and then force those workers to contribute to the unions' political agendas, no matter how extreme.”
It is ludicrous to say that every single union member in BC supports the NDP, yet they’re all forced to watch their unions spend millions creating ads that say Gordon Campbell wants to kill their grandmas. This has to stop.
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14 years ago
I think its amazing that we live in such a backwards society, and politically and judicially, such a backwards province.
ReplyDeleteYou have groups like the BC Human Rights Tribunal banning books because people disagree with the content (not because the content promotes hatred, but simply because they disagree!), you have judges who put the rights of criminals ahead of the victims, and you have unions frittering away union dues on extremely partisan advertising.
And, let's be perfectly honest. The "Gordon Campbell Hates You" ads are not only extremely distasteful (that you can take with a grain of salt) but are actually very poorly done. They're poorly recorded (sound quality =
awful) and very poorly edited. It's one thing to have an extremely negative and partisan attack ad, but it's quite another to do a very poor job making it.
Why don't they get organized, use some hard work, and present a motion at their next meeting to stop this practice?
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