[AUT] This is Class War

[eugene plawiuk <eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is Class War
By Eugene Plawiuk

The Only Labour Relations between Workers and Bosses is Class War!

It is time for the Labour Movement in Canada to grow a backbone and JUST
SAY NO! to working with or obeying Labour Relations Boards and their rulings.

In Alberta we have recently had rulings against unions, including a ruling
on Finning which found that when it out sources its work to the rat union
CLAC plant that this did not violate Labour Relations law. The fact that
Jim Dinning who hopes to replace Ralph as Premier of Alberta is on the
Finning Board probably influenced this decision against the IAM whose
members are having their jobs contracted out.

A disputes inquiry is being held into the Lakeside Packers strike,
effectively ending the strike for 60 days, but with no guarantee of binding
arbitration. After the union requested binding arbitration and the Minister
of Labour never responded.

While unions have representatives on the LRB so do the bosses and the
government picks who it wants as chair.

In this case the chair is a management lawyer representing the anti-union
Construction Industry Merit Shops who have sweetheart contracts with CLAC.
He was appointed by the Klein Government after they fired the pro-labour
Chair when they didn't like one of his rulings in favour of the union.

There is no fair or level playing field for workers in Alberta labour
relations. The game is rigged in favour of the bosses.

And now we have Telus getting support from the Canadian Industrial Labour
Relations Board and the Supreme Court of B.C. If this isn't enough to ring
the clarion bell of class war I don't know what will.

Read the whole article at:
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/07/this-is-class-war.html


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