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.
