CUPE pickets scab labour @ VSO opening concert

From workingtv.com - CUPE 15, in the 11th week of "Sam's Strike" in Vancouver picketed the Orpheum theatre Saturday night, September 29, as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) began its 2007-2008 season. VSO management got a Labour Relations Board exemption allowing it to operate the city owned Orpheum Theatre with scabs so symphony subscribers would not have to do without their concert.
Meanwhile CUPE members have been without paycheques and Vancouver residents have been without essential public services for over 70 days.

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[jcrt31]

I dropped by to revisit an old wound. The strike did nothing but cost an innocent arts organization hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thanks for the memories as an old "Orpheum" regular once said.

[jcrt31]

what everyone should know is that this cupe union broke the law by not allowing the vso musicians into the hall. The vso was granted entrance by the judge.The violence perpetrated on the vso musician caused the nmanagement to cancel several concerts which cost them 200.000 dollars.This is the third time they have done this to the vso and it has caused major finanacial problems over the years.

[rockerbiff]

Go CUPE fighting for a fair wage and decent treatment in the work place. IATSE crossed the picket line huh ? That's SAD....

[bob195555]

cupe, you've lost. Suck it up and go back to work. It's not all your fault, but clearly any respect or support you used to have in the public is now GONE.

[sonixelectronix]

Nobody is being greedy, or "gready" as you put it. Come work for the city and see how we are treated. Try working in a job that hasn't been reclassified in 25 years and see how you feel being classified a "clerk" and working as a surveyor. You don't know what you're talking about. Easy to talk when daddy and mommy take care of you.

[dtaguchi]

Unions were great when back in the day business owners treated their workers like hamsters and chimps. These days, with the labour laws in place, unions are obsolete. CUPE members: you want job security? Get up off your asses and MAKE yourselves irreplaceable. You want more pay? MAKE yourselves better and more valuable than you were before. I did. In the real world, one gets raises and promotions for exceptional work above and beyond the normal call of duty.

[beatmastert]

Don't forget my friend George is innocent until proven guilty. I understand George is about 5 foot nothing and 54 yeras old. Do I condone violence, no but no union member should cross another's picket line.

[vv7vv7]

It also doesn't point out the fact that although cupe chose to be out of work since July, the VSO musicians haven't worked since June the 11th, and are desperate to get back to work.

[vv7vv7]

This propoganda video also doesn't show them shoving an 80-year old lady on crutches (seriously, i saw it), physically getting in people's faces, and insulting ordinary citizens with vicious personal and racial insults.

It doesn't represent that the concert hall was FULL of enthusiastic people, enjoying one damn fine concert.

screw 'em.

[fernandes06]

Ridiculous!!

These are the same people who hurled insults at ordinary people helping clean up after the fireworks, the same people who threw nails, glass and concrete of soccer fields so that the soccer moms could not mow them for their kids, the same people who sabotaged the traffic lights and caused traffic chaos throughout the city - the same people who assaulted a VSO violin player!!