June 12, 2013
Imagine your 16-year-old kid gets a student job at an amusement park for the summer and goes for so-called “training” last weekend.
He returns in the evening and informs you he had to swear allegiance to the local branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
He also shows you the oath that reads like this: “I solemnly swear and declare that I will support and obey the Status and Rules of the Union and those of the CUPE … I recognize as a union member that if I do not keep my solemn promise, I could be sanctioned.”
The union also gives your son a book written by a former local union leader who was sentenced to six months in jail for starting a riot and smashing down the doors of city hall in 1993.
This is not simply a horror tale to give you shivers in the summer but the sad reality some parents faced last Sunday night in Montreal.
The name of the amusement park is La Ronde and the former union leader is Jean Lapierre.
How should these parents react? Call the union to make a complaint, or denounce such goings-on in the media?
They didn’t do anything because they were too scared their kids would lose their jobs.
They felt the threat and the terror of the super powerful unions.
If a private company had sent the same kids to a church basement, without the parents’ consent, and asked them to swear allegiance to the Vatican, everyone would be thoroughly and rightly outraged.
Why should it be any different when it comes to unions?
Brainwashing a 16-year-old kid is unacceptable, no matter what ideology you are intoxicating him or her with.
There is good reason we cannot vote before the age of 18 in Canada; we do not tolerate the indoctrination of minors.
For some odd reason, many now find it normal and even banal when this is done by a union. Well, it’s absolutely not normal or acceptable.
A union should be devoted to the sole interests of its members, not the other way around.
If there has to be an oath, it should be the union leaders who swear allegiance to their members.
A motion was tabled Wednesday in the National Assembly in Quebec City to denounce this oath by MNA Gerard Deltell.
Unfortunately, it didn’t pass because Parti Quebecois MNAs, strong union allies, refused to join in.
This is the same PQ which, by the way, opposed the oath to the Queen for ages, making a mockery of the act every four years during the swearing ceremony. What a double standard!
Does the PQ consider the unions bigger and more important than the state itself? That union leaders are more sovereign than the Queen herself? With such follies being tolerated in today’s society, it is nothing less than our democracy, our respect for minors, and our freedom of association that are threatened.
Source: Toronto Sun
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| La Ronde in Montreal, Que. MICHEL DESBIENS/QMI Agency files |
He returns in the evening and informs you he had to swear allegiance to the local branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
He also shows you the oath that reads like this: “I solemnly swear and declare that I will support and obey the Status and Rules of the Union and those of the CUPE … I recognize as a union member that if I do not keep my solemn promise, I could be sanctioned.”
The union also gives your son a book written by a former local union leader who was sentenced to six months in jail for starting a riot and smashing down the doors of city hall in 1993.
This is not simply a horror tale to give you shivers in the summer but the sad reality some parents faced last Sunday night in Montreal.
The name of the amusement park is La Ronde and the former union leader is Jean Lapierre.
How should these parents react? Call the union to make a complaint, or denounce such goings-on in the media?
They didn’t do anything because they were too scared their kids would lose their jobs.
They felt the threat and the terror of the super powerful unions.
If a private company had sent the same kids to a church basement, without the parents’ consent, and asked them to swear allegiance to the Vatican, everyone would be thoroughly and rightly outraged.
Why should it be any different when it comes to unions?
Brainwashing a 16-year-old kid is unacceptable, no matter what ideology you are intoxicating him or her with.
There is good reason we cannot vote before the age of 18 in Canada; we do not tolerate the indoctrination of minors.
For some odd reason, many now find it normal and even banal when this is done by a union. Well, it’s absolutely not normal or acceptable.
A union should be devoted to the sole interests of its members, not the other way around.
If there has to be an oath, it should be the union leaders who swear allegiance to their members.
A motion was tabled Wednesday in the National Assembly in Quebec City to denounce this oath by MNA Gerard Deltell.
Unfortunately, it didn’t pass because Parti Quebecois MNAs, strong union allies, refused to join in.
This is the same PQ which, by the way, opposed the oath to the Queen for ages, making a mockery of the act every four years during the swearing ceremony. What a double standard!
Does the PQ consider the unions bigger and more important than the state itself? That union leaders are more sovereign than the Queen herself? With such follies being tolerated in today’s society, it is nothing less than our democracy, our respect for minors, and our freedom of association that are threatened.
Source: Toronto Sun
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