City of Fredericton hires internationally known union-busting firm to put local 508 in their place

by André Faust (Feb 17, 2020)

It is a common phenomenon in Canada and in all industrial nations to bust unions by any means necessary.

One of the major union-busting firms is AFIMAC according to their web site they have been successful in undermining union negotiations for many businesses and corporations including many Fortune 500 corporations. The city of Fredericton has hired AFIMAC to sabotage the negotiations process with union local 508. The issue is when did AFIMAC get involved with advising the city on what strategies to use against the union and supply replacement workers during the lockout. If consultations between the city started during or before negotiating with the union, that would imply that the decision for a lockout was made long before the notice of strike was given by local 508. If this is the case then the council has come forth with unclean hands.

This would not be the first time that the city of Fredericton has used underhanded tactics. They were sued for unlawfully dismantling the occupy camp, A successful lawsuit was launched by activist Julian Renault, where the city had to pay 15,000$ in damages to the plaintiffs. Another red face incident is when the council held a secret meeting to send a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau for support for the Pipeline. The city of Fredericton in attempts to shut social activist blogger/journalist Charles Leblanc by haveing google shut down his blog that failed because within six hours a blog went into production.

One has to question the credibility of the council.

The conflict between the city and the union is over 850,000$ spread over 4 years. The cost for the professional services of AFIMAC may well surpass 850,000$. The longer the lockout the more expensive it will be for the taxpaying Frederictonians.

Atlantic Regional Representative Tony Tracy Banned from NS Legislature

Tony Tracy, Atlantic Regional Representative Canadian Labour Congress

Atlantic Regional Representative Tony Tracy was banned from the Nova Scotia legislature for 90 days for leading a protest chant  in the gallery of the Legislature of “Who’s House? Our House!”. The protesters were at the legislature in support of the 2,300 nurses who are on strike because of concerns for patient safety, currently, there is not enough nurses relative to the number of patients.

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President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Ken Georgetti, addresses the crowd April 3, 2014

President of the CLC, Ken Georgetti

President of the CLC, Ken Georgetti addresses crowd of NSGEU nurses who are on a legal strike, along with their supporters and other unions from the Nova Scotia labour movement.

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Income Inequality as a Function of Concentrated Corporate Power

By André Faust

Over the course of the last several hundred years, the way business has been carried out have evolved to a state where these mega corporations have become almost untouchable and have become a state within themselves. In addition some of the high end corporations have acquired wealth that exceeds the wealth of most developed countries and can directly affect the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by either productivity or reducing their productivity. Using their vast amount of wealth and control over the human and natural resources  they have become very successful in getting the world governments to represent the interest of the Corporate State not the citizens their respective countries which classical government use to do.