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Unions and Public Sector Service Don’t Mix

Published March 4, 2013 by Mischa Popoff Filed Under: Bureaucratic Incompetence, Justice Denied


bcfmwu_headerIf you need hard evidence that unions and public service don’t mix, consider that one of the people allegedly responsible for the sinking of the Queen of the North in 2006 is only now going to finally face justice. And you can thank the B.C. Ferry Marine Workers Union for the delay.

Karl Lilgert was eventually fired for his role in this disaster, but only after his union blindly defended him and the co-worker with whom he supposedly had sex with on the bridge the night of the disaster.

Unlike Lilgert, who will face a jury of his peers, quartermaster Karen Bricker gets off scot-free.

Two full years after the disaster Jackie Miller, a spokeswoman for the union, still insisted that neither Lilgert nor Bricker were actually responsible for what happened, claiming they were

“two victims, just like the two people that went down with the ship.”

Yup, that’s what she actually said.

She actually compared Gerald Foisy and Shirley Rosette, the two passengers whose bodies were never recovered, directly with the man and woman responsible for their deaths.  That’s obscene.

Like Lilgert, Bricker was also eventually fired, but in any non-unionized line of work both would have been fired immediately. Instead, they both sat at home collecting full salaries and benefits until finally the union relented. The size of their severance packages was never disclosed.

I used to joke that as long as a public-service employee doesn’t have sex or kill anyone at work, he’ll have a job for life. Turns out I was wrong. You CAN have sex with anyone you want at work, kill a few people, and still retain your job! At least for a while… if you have the right union.

This is what happens when a political organization (a union) decides it’s above the law and no one in government has the guts to stand up to them. Sound familiar? It’s precisely what’s happening in the nationwide “Idle No More” movement in which a handful of those claiming to represent the proud First Nations people of this country are threatening to shut down the Canadian economy and bring the nation to its knees.

Theresa Spence could serve serious time for embezzlement but for the accident of her birth. She makes just under $70,000 a year, tax free, as chief of the Attawapiskat Indian reserve, she pays her boyfriend $850 a day, also tax free, to be Attawapiskat’s town manager, and between the two of them they can’t seem to account for the better part of a whopping $90 million – I repeat $90 million – that her reserve has received through public and private payments since 2006.

But, like a spoiled member of a public-service union to whom the rules don’t apply, Spence has decided to go on a fake hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of her people who, thanks to the extravagance of Spence and her boyfriend, are forced to live in homes that should be condemned.

Spence is being aided and abetted by a handful of other radical chiefs across the land that could all benefit from a lesson in Economics 101.

Business-minded chiefs who could teach graduate level Economics, like Robert Louie of the Westbank First Nations and Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band, don’t have time to join this radical collective.

They’re too busy creating jobs for their people.

Message to Spence: there are no homes worthy of being condemned on the Louis’ reserves.

Lilgert’s upcoming trial illustrates why Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the father of the modern welfare state, didn’t allow unions in the federal government. Spence’s actions, meanwhile, illustrate why the Northwest Mounted Police were founded back in 1873 (upgraded into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920).

In both cases the goal was to uphold the law for all regardless of their race, creed, religion or political affiliation.

And in both cases, Clarence Louie’s sage words of advice apply:

“Quit your sniffling.”

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  • Mischa Popoff

    Mischa Popoff is a public speaker and author of the book "Is It Organic?". He currently works as a policy advisor at The Heartland Institute, and a research associate with The Frontier Centre for Public Policy; both are pro-freedom, free-market conservative think-tanks. He is currently running for the BC Conservative Party in Boundary-Smilkameen.

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Tags: B.C. Ferry Marine Workers Union, captain Karl Lilgert, Gerald Foisy and Shirley Rosette, Jackie Miller, public service unions, quartermaster Karen Bricker, Queen of the North disaster, union activism

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Comments

  1. The Hammer says

    March 5, 2013 at 7:21 am

    You should see the public service unions in Ontario. They are hiring black bloc activists to do their dirty work. Private service unions have got on board too. A led by by Syd Ryan, head of the Ontario Federation of Labour. When Sid was head of CUPE Ontario he tried to get Ontario Universities to ban Israeli professors from teaching by making threats with his CUPE locals at various universities.

    Sid’s most recent protest: http://www.genuinewitty.com/2013/03/03/how-the-unions-are-using-the-anarchist-thugs-to-muscle-porter-airlines-feat-sid-ryan-tony-depaulo-ken-lewenza/

    Public service unions also fund groups like OCAP-Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. OCAP leads violent protests and love storming city hall. Of course, all their solutions involve hiring bloated bureaucracy.

    http://www.genuinewitty.com/2013/02/16/ocap-gets-its-stupid-on-at-city-hall-feat-no-one-is-illegal-toronto-district-school-board/

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  2. Ron Thomas says

    March 18, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    Chris, the Queen of the North was likely an insurance job, with CEO Hawn parachuting out with very generous retirement package. A GPS positioning chip was installed a month before the sinking, which could over ride the auto pilot , causing the ship to move on or off coarse. Go to http://www.abeldanger.net and look up Queen of the North. Field Macconnell and David Hawking are a pair of very smart guys exposing alot of corruption happening in the world today. David is the BC Reform member for White Rock BC. Cheers….Ron.

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  3. Ron Thomas says

    March 18, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    Chris….did my comment fail? It was important..Could you please acknowledge receipt , or I will re-write. Ron

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    • Christopher di Armani says

      March 18, 2013 at 7:06 pm

      It made it through fine… I’ve turned off “auto-approve” for comments though to cut down on comment spam. You should see it now. Thanks for the link, btw. Very informative.

      Reply

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