Is a Big Union Boss Using Compulsory Union Dues For HIS Own Political Views?
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Unifor to run anti-Conservative ad campaign despite concerns of member journalists
The union represents 12,000 journalists and media
workers. Some of them worry the union's political stance jeopardizes their
objectivity
MEAGAN CAMPBELL
Updated: August 19, 2019
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“We do not tell members how to vote, but I
will be speaking out against the Conservative Party,” Dias wrote in the
email. “Journalists, my own communications staff, even our Atlantic Regional
Director, Lana Payne, a former journalists (sic), have all explained to me why
our union’s partisan stance makes some of you uncomfortable. I hear you,” he
wrote....
Dias said he was protecting jobs, noting that
Conservative Party of Canada
Leader Andrew Scheer opposed federal funding to the news industry. The Liberals committed $600 million in the latest budget to
help the news industry over the next five years.
Adding to concerns about bias, Heritage
Minister Pablo Rodriguez named Unifor as one of eight panel members in May to
advise the government on how to deliver its commitments to the news
industry. The other panel members included the Media Council of Canada, News Media Canada and the Canadian Association
of Journalists.
Unifor members include columnists, editors
and news anchors at the Globe and Mail, Toronto
Star and Global TV and CTV stations. It also represents employees at the Winnipeg Free Press, London
Free Press and the Hamilton
Spectator (it does not represent employees at National Post)....
“We all know that what your union says publicly does
not impact your objectivity or your journalistic integrity as media workers,”
Dias wrote. “Paying dues to a union does not mean you have to agree with
everything your union does.”... (emphasis
added)
[read more at link below]
https://o.canada.com/news/unifor-union-to-run-anti-conservative-ad-campaign-despite-concerns-of-member-journalists/wcm/73130ab6-8f81-4872-9432-c7788e82f131
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May 26, 2019
A Canadian Union: Unifor is ‘the resistance’
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Unifor uses the word “democracy,” yet, it is funded by
compulsory union dues, as are other trade unions in Canada. Which raises the question,
Is Unifor ‘resistance’ being paid for by the compulsory union dues of its
members? Or is ‘the resistance’ cabal doing its “work” on its own free time and
using its own money? Another question is this, Unifor probably has members that
vote conservative or for various other political parties? Is it “democratic”
that ‘the resistance’ is taking a position that could be contrary to any number
of its members? After all, union members have a variety of views on all kinds
of issues, therefore is this position of ‘the resistance’ an affront to their
freedoms and should it be allowed in a supposedly free country?...
[read much more at link below]
http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-canadian-union-unifor-is-resistance.html
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June 11, 2019
Billions of Tax Dollars Given Away
Billions and millions of tax
dollars are given away
Extorted from taxpayers who
don’t have a say
Is this a country in the
hands of a political fool?
Does nonsense and hypocrisy
from his lips drool?
Billions are sent to
countries overseas
To pay for their abortions:
if you please!
What an obscene use of money
to kill the pre-born
Is this, disgusting, sick,
and definitely, a terrible wrong?
Millions of dollars are being handed to the unionized
media
And corporate chieftains also, will get some of this tax
monies utopia
The propaganda pushers will now have the peoples’ tax
dollars to fund their “news”
And the “journalists” unions can spend more money,
from forced union dues
Mandatory union dues, support and finance many non
work issues
Now “$600 million” of taxpayers’ dollars could be also
misused
Should there be a public inquiry into the dispersal of
union dues?
This is the memberships monies and can be subjected to
abuse
Millions of membership dollars have been given away
over the years
To numerous organizations, and various parties; from
union overseers
All this money given away comes from members
compulsory union dues
Is this really “democratic” and do the union members
get to freely choose?
Or are they just like all other taxpayers, prisoners
of a system
Where money is forcibly taken from them: Is this
freedom?
Has “democracy” been hijacked, when people have no
say?
As a leader of a country gives billions and millions
of taxpayers’ dollars away?...
[more info at link below]
http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-captured-of-canada.html
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Third-party advertisers start disclosing ad spending
as election nears
By Christian Paas-Lang, The Canadian Press — Jun 29 2019
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"We're all in," said Jerry Dias, national
president of Unifor, the country's largest private-sector union.
"We're entitled to spend $511,000 in the writ
period — we're going to spend $511,000" he added. "There is no
question, we will be very aggressive."... (emphasis added)
[read much more at link below]
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Stephen J. Gray
August 20, 2019.
