tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post4445543822026401535..comments2024-01-02T00:38:08.335-08:00Comments on Downtown Eastside Enquirer: CUPE Rally on Wed. Aug. 29thUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-62554533190781353362007-09-01T19:17:00.000-07:002007-09-01T19:17:00.000-07:00I like the term "CUPEdity" because it sounds like ...I like the term "CUPEdity" because it sounds like stupidity, a form of stupidity that CUPE has taken to new heights. <BR/><BR/>Like on August 28, the Vancouver Sun reported CUPE President Barry O'Neill announcing at a press conference that 'our members are hurting out there, as are taxpayers'. That's CUPEdity, this self-serving nonsense that CUPE expects people to be stupid enough to believe.reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-81103398460425104232007-08-31T15:52:00.000-07:002007-08-31T15:52:00.000-07:00It will do no good for those wiping table to quit ...It will do no good for those wiping table to quit in a huff simply because they get used as filler for CUPE theatrics.<BR/><BR/>Don't agonizize, organizize.<BR/><BR/>And look for fellows in the same predicament, perhaps those who frequent the Gathering Centre. Everywhere CUPE is one will find a similar example of CUPEdidty.<BR/><BR/>(That fine pun might be lost without an explanation, so here Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833622800266623295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-16698179033621377942007-08-31T12:22:00.000-07:002007-08-31T12:22:00.000-07:00Dag,Lucy Alderson, the teacher in the Carnegie Lea...Dag,<BR/><BR/>Lucy Alderson, the teacher in the Carnegie Learning Centre, a BCTF member who worked with CUPE members to get a homeless man barred from the Learning Centre for exercising his right to free speech, sent out a mass e-mail the day before the CUPE rally. Many of the people she sent it to are on welfare. She told them that she would be at the CUPE rally and she gave them the start reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-48838416139815685292007-08-29T21:54:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:54:00.000-07:00So, yeah, I'm missing the plot here. As I read it,...So, yeah, I'm missing the plot here. As I read it, welfare people are supposed to go out on the one day in 35 that they have some money, and with that day, rather than go shopping, they should support CUPE members striking for higher wages and more benefits. Missed it altogether.<BR/><BR/>As I understand it, CUPE strikers want nearly 20 per cent more per year over what they get now for the next Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.com