Labour Unions' Everlasting Shame
In exchange for the privilege of earning a living, you will take whatever medication your employer tells you to. Says your union president.
Rita Smith’s article, If these 10 groups had done their jobs, the Truckers’ protest would not have been necessary, reminds us that labour unions are amongst the biggest villains of the past few years.
People pay dues to their unions in order to gain a collective voice. By standing together, shoulder-to-shoulder, unionized employees are in a stronger position to negotiate wages - and to fend off unreasonable employer demands.
Yet these same unions - which talk incessantly about human rights - failed to defend medical autonomy. Even if COVID vaccines actually worked, even if they did stop virus spread, there are many reasons why individuals in consultation with their doctor might decide not to take them. When employers pushed these vaccines on workers did labour unions push back? Did they defend that longstanding principle of My body, my choice? I’m afraid not.
In the words of former truck driver David Anderson, unions instead helped corporations and governments convert “the worker into a slave by removing the last vestige of choice.” In exchange for the privilege of earning a living, you will take whatever medication your employer tells you to. Says your union president.
David points to the FasterTogether.ca website, launched in May 2021. According to a press release from that time, it’s a “national volunteer-based initiative” dedicated to “Overcoming vaccine hesitancy to speed the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.”
Guess who’s co-chair of that campaign? Hassan Yussuff the bleeping president of the bleeping Canadian Labour Congress. The same press release informs us that all kinds of unions are publicly committed to fighting vaccine hesitancy, including:
Amalgamated Transit Union
Boilermakers International
Canada's Building Trades Unions
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Union of Operating Engineers
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers
Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Unifor
United Food and Commercial Workers
United Steel Workers
The leaders of these unions sold their membership down the river. At that point in time, governments were throwing around tons of money. They were essentially bribing all manner of organizations, enticing them to climb aboard the vaccine bandwagon.
One wonders how many pieces of silver ended up in union coffers.
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I see Unifor on this list. It represents 12,000 Canadian journalists and media workers in newspapers and at broadcasting outlets, and I was a Unifor member when I worked at the Toronto Star. The newsroom reps were always management toadies.
The concept Human Rights is a collectivist dream term as it elevates humanity over the individual. Properly, Individual Rights protect all people whereas the legitimizes leads to “for the greater good of all”, the theme sacrifices the minority to the majority or . .more probably, the whims of a leader.
Note also that we elect representatives not leaders. It is up to you and me to put them in the proper place. R