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dipmicro · ‎12-20-2012

How will this exactly works for self-employed if he wants to collectively bargain and eventually go on strike ?

prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil · ‎12-23-2012

I will let the group continue lighting torches. I’ve got better things to do. We’re off to the shelter kitchen to help prepare for the Christmas dinner for the homeless and other families who need help. Then we are wrapping presents for the children of those families. Then we are having a meeting to acquire more money so that some families can make their rent and heating bills.

Y’all can discuss being satisfied and adapting to the status quo.

pigdog47 · ‎12-23-2012

Obviously, Tim Horton's workers in Edmonton have a legitimate grievance because they earn less $$$/hr than their compatriots in Fort McMurray!!! It's not fair!

almond_t · ‎12-23-2012

never got the memo -> if you're going to quote me (again) kindly don't cut off the relevant text (AGAIN)

It was 'Apparently Board Boss never got the memo'

'never got the memo' downplays the point of the post, which was 'Board Boss'.

Thank you.

Beware of kittens with red bows, bullies in bandannas, and whining broken records.

€ Lucifleur

~Lucifleur

pierrelebel · ‎12-23-2012

"We’re off to the shelter kitchen to help prepare for the Christmas dinner for the homeless and other families who need help. Then we are wrapping presents for the children of those families."

We all make choices in life. That was your choice. You feel good about it? Good.

Today, we drove to Toronto to have our annual Christmas get-together with the children and grandchildren. Instead of serving meal, we ate them. Instead of wrapping presents, we let the kids and grandkids unwrap the presents we had wrapped a few days ago.

That was our choice. That is how we decided to spend this Sunday and we feel good about it. 🙂

stevephinn2012 · ‎12-23-2012

Today, we drove to Toronto to have our annual Christmas get-together with the children and grandchildren. Instead of serving meal, we ate them. Instead of wrapping presents, we let the kids and grandkids unwrap the presents we had wrapped a few days ago.

That was our choice. That is how we decided to spend this Sunday and we feel good about it.

Hope you enjoyed your time with the family. We will do that tomorrow as in retai there is no such thing as a STAT holiday anymore.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🙂

almond_t · ‎12-23-2012

Pierre, you and your one-and-only goddess are truly blessed. What a wonderful day you must have had today. 🙂

Beware of kittens with red bows, bullies in bandannas, and whining broken records.

€ Lucifleur

~Lucifleur

i*m-stilll-here · ‎12-23-2012

"

Today, we drove to Toronto to have our annual Christmas get-together with the children and grandchildren. Instead of serving meal, we ate them.

You ate your children and grandchildren instead of a meal?

😮

stevephinn2012 · ‎12-23-2012

HAHAHAHA

pigdog47 · ‎12-23-2012

You ate your children and grandchildren instead of a meal?

😮

:^O:^O:^O Pierre may have the rare distinction of being eBay's one and only cannibalistic philatelist!

almond_t · ‎12-23-2012

kindly don't cut off the relevant text

In order for someone to insult me…….I would first have to value their opinion.

Thank you.

***

You're welcome.

But for the record, that's not an insult. It was, like I already stated, a request to 'kindly don't cut off the relevant text' ( i.e 'Board Boss') and lose the context if you're going to quote, and then make reference to my post.

Or anyone else's.

Beware of kittens with red bows, bullies in bandannas, and whining broken records.

€ Lucifleur

~Lucifleur

i*m-stilll-here · ‎12-24-2012

:^O:^O:^O Pierre may have the rare distinction of being eBay's one and only cannibalistic philatelist!

I Know!

I guess they were too tired after the drive to bother with preparations for a meal, but I'll bet he'll regret that come next Christmas and there are no children to spoil.

pierrelebel · ‎12-24-2012

"too tired after the drive..."

Actually that is pretty close to the thruth.... After driving to Richmond Hill and Toronto and back to Belleville, I may have been too tired to check my grammar and syntax (as I get older, I find long distance driving more taxing on my system).

Oh well, I expect most readers will understand the meaning of the message.

Merry Christmas and Joyeux Noel to all.

stevephinn2012 · ‎12-24-2012

Oh well, I expect most readers will understand the meaning of the message.

We all knew what you meant (well most of us-1 person checked with 3 friends-I think they were PSW workers--LOL but still couldnot figure it out) but friendly banter is better than the usual attacks on here.

dipmicro · ‎12-24-2012

GM moving Camaro production from Ontario to Michigan:

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/12/19/gm-canada-unlikely-to-build-new-chevrolet-camaro-in-oshawa/

CAW is up in arms. General Motors just recently signed a new collective agreement agreeing that we remain competitive. Agreeing that our costs were in line with the competition

We don't know the "exact reason" why GM made this business decision. But it well may be that Canadian unions have shown high level of aggression against employers who did not agree with new collective agreement and in my opinion GM simply did not want to risk confrontation, so they signed new agreement but continued searching for legal way to get out. They will maintain promised commitment of 16% in Ontario until 2016 or pay penalties, whatever is cheaper for them.

We don't know.

What we do know that CAW did not save these jobs by their "collective bargaining". What's even worse (for Canada) is this business owners chose to move from one unionized environment to another and I worked for company who supplied for GM and we know UAW are tough. We did not supply much to CAW plants, but what does that tell you about CAW ?

Nobody can say there were no warning signs: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/auto-makers-tell-union-wage-hikes-wont-happen/article4237437/

Merry Christmas everyone