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- From: dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F)
- Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
- References: <93019.100252SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan19.174121.4480@mdivax1.uucp> <93020.174629SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:34:27 GMT
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- In article <93020.174629SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.174121.4480@mdivax1.uucp>, robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim
- >Robinson) says:
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- >
- >>Just out of curiousity, do you support doing away with the secret ballot
- >>that was used for union certification purposes? This was one of Harcourt's
- >
- >Automatic certification exists in Ontario. It seems to me a waste
- >of money to run a vote when almost 50% of the possible voters have
- >already committed themselves to vote for one side.
- >
- >However, you should ask someone else; I will not likely get asked
- >to participate in a union drive any time soon. And of all the things
- >I worry about, "intimidation" by a union comes very low on the list.
- >
- I am part of a Union which was certified three years ago in Ontario. It was
- interesting because our University has four faculties and while one faculty
- voted 100% in favour, another voted only 10% in favour. Is it fair that the
- one faculty which had 100% in favour should dominate the one which only had
- 10% in favour? At the time Ontario needed more than 50% support and the line
- was very close to the actual vote and thus secret ballot I think was
- important. I suspect from events since that there is a small group of Union
- members who perceive that they speak for the faculty when in fact they are
- not at all representative of the overall faculty. I also suspect this is
- true of Chamber of Commerce executives. However, I worry more about the
- Chambers of Commerce because they provide the capital to provide the jobs
- and they can move that capital between jurisdcitions very very quickly
- leaving the rest of the people without jobs and without any chance of moving
- quickly. Capital can move with a flick of a computer switch - people cannot.
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