“I would probably be more public. I would take a firmer stance and say, “You guys, we all know it’ll be 17.5 per cent. Now get in there and negotiate.” – former Mayor Sam Sullivan expressing to the Vancouver Sun what he would have done differently in negotiations with city workers during the summer of 2007
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October 29, 2009 - 9:58 am | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross
During the series of civic labour negotiations across Metro Vancouver in the summer of 2007, the first municipalities to reach deals with their workers were Richmond and Surrey – two municipalities who have pulled out of the Greater Vancouver Labour Relations Bureau (GVLRB) and negotiate directly with the unions. The City of Vancouver, which is a part of the GVLRB, took 3 months to reach its settlements.
Revisionist historians deflect from their own record
October 29, 2009 - 9:34 am | 1 Comment Posted by Jonathan Ross
In what is poised to become an ongoing series here on CivicScene, I am going to correct the record with regards to – surprise, surprise – an assertion found on City Caucus.
As part of a post on Vancouver Councillor Geoff Meggs’s motion to pull Vancouver out of the Greater Vancouer Labour Relations Bureau (an issue that I will delve into later in the morning in an interview with the Councillor), Messrs. Fontaine and Klassen state the following:
“In the midst of the regional collective agreement discussions, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie decided to sell out his Metro Vancouver colleagues by offering CUPE a generous 17.5% pay package. Richmond was not a member of the Bureau at the time. Suddenly Brodie’s offer became the “base” that all other…municipalities had to negotiate from.”
The implication of such an assertion is that Vancouver was forced to look at such an amount ONLY AS A RESULT of Richmond’s deal.
That isn’t what Fontaine’s former boss Sam Sullivan recollects about the strike of 2007, however.
Tags: City of Richmond, City of Vancouver, CityCaucus, CUPE, Geoff Meggs, Greater Vancouver Labour Relations Bureau, Malcolm Brodie, Metro Vancouver, Sam Sullivan, Strike
Deciphering the truth
October 28, 2009 - 1:23 pm | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan RossAre stories of Vanouver Police officers running intimidation tactics on the homeless true? Hard to tell to what extent, if at all.
But details emerging from the mouths of tent dwellers about being pressured to leave the area don’t seem to be coming out of thin air (the part about being pushed up against vans and told to pick up their s–t and get out of town? Well that’s a different story).
I found this piece of the above-linked article very telling however:
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“Perhaps it was my silk dress or the new perfume I’ve been wearing lately. When I asked Suzanne Anton what her New Year’s resolution was, she replied, “To kiss a pretty girl!” and pecked me on the cheek.” – Writer Emily Barca describing her encounter with the lone NPA City Councillor on New Year’s Eve.
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