Molly’sBlog 2011-12-14 12:30:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVES ATTACK UNIONS ONCE MORE: Well, this probably counts as non-news as nobody should be suprised that a Conservative Party wants to gut the power of organized workers…
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OECD on Inequality
Following concern expressed by the IMF, the Conference Board and of course thousands of protesters around the world, the OECD has just released an extensive 400 page report on the…
Open The Books for Everyone
Here’s a great piece from David Climenhaga contributing to rabble about fiscal openness. While it’s extremely unlikely that the Harperites will follow his advice, I fully agree that now is…
Bribing your audience: how much do contests matter to email open rates?
I sent out an email to ten or fifteen thousand of my closest union friends today, asking them to do an online survey about what the union’s priorities should be.
It’s not just unions any more: Time to consider fiscal openness for professional associations, private companies, think tanks, churches
The board of the Fraser Institute meets to discuss their next dubious call for lower taxes on billionaires and the corporations they own. Who finances them, anyway? Secretive organizations may…
Yeah, see? OC Transpo driver had a story too
So this OC Transpo driver is recorded yelling at a passenger to shut up. The video goes on YouTube and a short time later he’s fired. There’s much outrage focussed…
Air Canada arbitration: so what was that decision all about?
Air Canada was happy. The union was not. But then, this is Lisa Raitt's shop, we could have predicted that, right? So here is my understanding - as an outsider…
Garry Queale Says Video of Bus Driver Threatening Autistic Man Is "Inconclusive"
If you have yet to see the video of an OC Transpo bus driver yelling at and threatening an autistic man named Matthew Taronno, you need to see it. It's…
Too many non-union managers, not union members, drive up Alberta government costs
A typical Alberta civil servant, who apparently can’t be trusted to work alone, helps his manager doff his coat. Actual unionized Alberta public employees may not be exactly as illustrated,…
Dear commerical media quit using “union boss” to describe our leaders
I know y'all are into brevity and everything. I'm with you. But is the pain of adding three extra characters to your titles and content really so onerous that you…
Writing web content for union members: is it public voice or intimate voice?
Most of the how-to manuals on web writing focus on writing in public voice. They presume that the words will be the product of many pairs of eyes, the writer…
Lisa Raitt’s Three Principles of Labour Law
Posted below is a slightly longer version of my column in today’s Globe and Mail regarding the Harper government’s highly creative approach to making up labour law on the run.…
Peggy Nash announces candidacy for NDP leadership
Peggy Nash, the NDP incumbent for my riding of Parkdale-Highpark and the candidate I voted for, has just announced that she is running to be the next NDP leader. I…
Welcome to Toronto, mister president
Alrighty then. That’s another website to get redone then. Stuck my hand up once again at the wrong time and I am now overseeing the redesign/reengineering of calm.ca. In truth,…
Lisa Raitt sends labour relations back to the 1920s
When I first saw reference to this on Twitter I thought maybe it was some sort of hyperbole. Or that some progressive soul, like myself, prone to Swiftian rhetoric, had…
Small Business and the Attack on Unions
In case you had any doubts where the escalating attack on Canadian unions is coming from, check out the web site of the Canadian Labour Watch Association. The Labour Watch…
Air Canada vs CUPE: the company charges ‘bad faith’
It would be funny if I didn't think that the livelihoods of 6,000 or so people hung in the balance. But Air Canada has charged the union with bad faith…