Steelworker union-rep crashes Harper rally in Hamilton

[jimbroski1]

you should have layed that boy out putting his hands on you not once but a few time he be sleeping with all reports watching then fill them in .

[MsMarieKelly]

Well done Wayne! Nice to see the working class standing up to the right wing corporate agenda. You are right. Harper (and the Liberals before) are selling off our country piece by piece to foreign corporate interests. As our decent middle class jobs get sold off and hard working Canadians end up on the street, corporations line their already ballooning pockets with the money they make from our human suffering. Shame on Harper and the conservatives and shame on us if we dont vote them out!

[ve3tru]

Hmm....harper wants to give tax breaks to large companies so this guy can keep his job at the steel mill, the liberals want to tax them out of business. Free trade is a red herring as all parties will quietly support it in one form or other.The problem is not free trade, but a political system based on corporations, that cuts through all parties.

[eastduchess]

I am getting weary at being subjected to these staged situations; this is becoming more prevalent these days and should be recognized for what it is - rude!

[624husker]

thank you Wayne Rae, the working class, working poor need more voices in Ottawa, congrat to making a difference, workers should be at all Harpers Rallys to ask the questions that matter.

Mike, Guelph

[AndreaMN]

think it is funny how union workers keep protecting union reps when they are guilty of being part of the problem of selling off their jobs to other countries, face it...they suck....this looks a bit staged with the microphones just so happening to being on hand,,,,this is BS staged ....what everyone is not getting is both the democrats and republicans have sold out their fellow Americans and it is time to CLEAN HOUSE

[SelfishGene99]

Way to go United Steelworkers! Harper has got to go and since he won't let anyone who is not a HarperCultZombie around him, I guess we have to do it the hard way.

Thanks for standing up for Canada.

[shawnmaestro]

i want to be Wayne Rae when i grow up. he's got a lot of integrity.

[panamavida]

Don't put your hands on me, haha, Nice Wayne. He's right though, enough of this selloff of Canadian manufacturing to China and India, offshoring an economic base such as manufacturing to countries that use near slave-wage is a betrayal to Canadians. It denegrates our societies and forces people to either work minimum wage jobs, or force them to leave their communities (and family) to gain proper employment.

[gravano2]

Good job Wayne , let the asshole try to live on 10.25 an hour himself . With a tank of gas about a day and a half's wage , and insurance another days wage .You need about 500.00 clear now a week to survive.

[1michelemichele1]

!!!

Thank you for standing up for all Canadians (even CPC supporters who don't realize you're speaking for their best interests, too)

...I'm ashamed to say I didn't know we've lost jobs to US Steel. There is so much of this sort of thing going on, it's difficult to keep track of it all.

[PaperKutZ]

Great Job Brother Rae! Made me proud bro!

[knarfnohj]

Cheap, scummy right-wing provocateurs are in every crowd. Get your hands off me. Don't put your hands on me.

[xpdncvideo]

These neo-con thugs will be out of their jobs soon, very soon.

[nikraptom]

Well done bro. This election should be about JOBS and PAY and how to have enough to raise a family, but it isn't -- not yet. Keep it real!

[bcandatree]

What a joke... HIS job is a Tim Horton's job... massively inflated by years and years of union bargaining. He leaves his job, 5 minutes later he would have a replacement. 25 minutes later, the new guy would be doing the job just as well as he did.

[iamjamiewest]

@bcandatree Uh no - even if it was a Tim Horton's job, none of us could do that job as well as a seasoned employee after 25 minutes. More importantly, you are missing the point - the importance of career jobs. Harper wants us to believe that minimum wage "McJobs" are sufficient to raise a family - they aren't. As Canadians, we should be ashamed of the erosion of good career jobs. Instead, people like you are high-fiving politicians and CEO's for rolling back wages. How does that benefit Canada?

[bcandatree]

@iamjamiewest You are correct... I was exaggerating about the 25 minutes and to be honest, I don't really know the complexity of his job. But that isn't going to stop me from speculating. The process to make steel was figured out in the 1800s so it has had about 160 years or so to be perfected and have its mass production process refined with the aid of productivity improving capital. I would guess that a brand new rookie could learn his current job in 1-3 months.

[MrTrueCanuck]

@bcandatree While you're admittedly busy exaggerating and speculating, let me dare add the process to make steel was conceived in the 13th century, not the 19th. Not that 6 centuries behind the facts is that bad or anything.

What are you, a Ronald Reagan fan? Not that it matters...Cheers.

[bcandatree]

@MrTrueCanuck Right... way to pounce on that. I said 'figured out' and you took that to mean 'invented'. I was referring to the mass production of steel which wasn't feasible until the mid 1800s. You know, in keeping with the thread of the conversation. I was talking about unionization and how it distorts the value placed on jobs with low complexity. Please, enjoy yourself on that tangent about when the process to make steel was invented and Ronald Reagan.

[MrTrueCanuck]

@bcandatree No no, the process was invented in the 13th century. There's no confusion. I mean, you confess to exaggerating and speculating, but you're outraged over facts?  On a topic you yourself smugly submitted ? Poor form. And it clearly casts doubts on the rest of your statements....Don't fret too much over the Reagan thing. It's apparently quite distressing.

[bcandatree]

@MrTrueCanuck No, not going to dispute my original point then? About the steelworker belittling the Tim Horton's employees for nothing more than not being unionized.

[MrTrueCanuck]

@bcandatree Why are you pretending I'm avoiding something we never discussed in the first place?

Apparently I'm to kowtow to every unknown whim and expectation of yours without notice. Please don't bust my knees, boss. But since you demand it, boss - I see no belittling at all. I see a person sympathizing

with their conditions, as he expressly identifies with - as you suddenly purport too -. Why exaggerate and distort? It's so unlike you....Cheers.

[bcandatree]

@MrTrueCanuck This happens so often while arguing with leftists that it doesn't surprise me anymore. Annoying? Not really. Because while you were strategically scoring points in your mind as to when the process to make steel was invented, I continued to point out the hypocrisy of this guy on the video. Hypocrisy like the fact that if he was laid off he probably would HAVE to work at TH while the people previously working there have moved on, having worked themselves through school.

[BoredomCorner]

@bcandatree Well I often get the far-right accusing everyone who disagrees with them, unemployed socialist whores and hippies, for no reason at all. Just yesterday, I saw someone claim that Trudeau was a communist (yeah right, in the middle of the cold war a communist would be PM for 15 years?), yet when I asked him if he knew what a communist was he just froze.

[MrTrueCanuck]

@bcandatree Stop whining about being wrong. it's not a productive gimmick. And stop reinventing what your imagined "point" was, under your imagiined scenario and your imagined "belittling". Dishonest, immoral

and unprincipled. There's a shocker, Harperite.....Cheers.

[bcandatree]

@bcandatree You have your topics of conversation, unrelated to this one, such as the belief that the process for making steel was invented in the 13th century (false). I have mine. So go right ahead and discuss amongst yourself. I just have a problem with this steelworker grandstanding at a CPC rally, insulting Tim Horton's staff who probably work harder than he does. And probably have more stringent requirements on performance than he does.

[BoredomCorner]

@bcandatree Oh really? I'd like to see you work in a steel mill.

[bcandatree]

@BoredomCorner OK... kind of a funny statement considering you have (a) never layed eyes on me and (b) have no idea what I am capable of doing either mental or physical. I know a lot of people who work at a steel plant literally 20 kms from my home. And I would call every single one of them out for belittling a Tim Horton's employee the way this guy does. There's just no point in this class warfare whose battle lines are drawn based on whether you work in a union or not. Nuf said.

[bcandatree]

@iamjamiewest that's what unions do... they take 'McJobs' that pay minimum wage and turn them into high wage positions. For example, why does the owner of a steel plan pay a guy $80k per year who has 20 years or 25 years on the job when a young guy, 18 or 19, could do the job for $40k per year. The answer is unionization.

[lepatechinois]

Don't let the bastards bring you down Wayne! Mr Harper, you don't speak for us.