So, does the UFCW deny disrupting the meeting?
UFCW Threatens Activists
Activists & Socialist newspaper threatened with lawsuit
Just days after asking the BC Supreme Court to censor a web site operated by Local 777 member and union democracy activist William Gammert, MFD has learned that the UFCW has threatened legal action against three Toronto activists over a report that appeared last fall in a newpaper published by the activist group Socialist Action.
In the story, Socialist Action alleged that representatives of Local 1000a, including its President, Kevin Corporon disrupted a meeting at which Steve Guiliano, a member of Local 1000a, was to speak on the subject of union reform. Late last year, Guiliano was evicted from the Ontario Federation of Labour convention for handing out copies of the SA newspaper to union delegates.
The UFCW's latest threat is directed at Guiliano, two members of Socialist Action and the newspaper that published the disturbing story. In their letter, UFCW lawyers allege that the story is "erroneous, unfair and ... seriously defamatory of the UFCW and its officials" and threatens legal action against all three activists and Social Action if the newspaper does not publish "an apology and full and fair retraction" in the next edition.
I don't think they're saying anything, except: "Don't talk about it or we'll sue you!"
What the UFCW is doing reminds me a lot of this famous lawsuit http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/index.html It's ironic isn't it? A union that wants to organize service industry workers using the same hamfisted tactic as McDonalds for silencing its critics. Maybe we should call them McUnion?
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Maybe we should call them McUnion?
BWAHAHAHAHA!
"Could I please have a FatCat burger, large lies, and a side order of grievy?"
Good golly! Get a load of these Teamsters http://www.teamster.net/read.php?f=1&i=75935&t=75935 . Who's that they're criticizing? Why if it isn't G. Dubya Bush, the President of the United States, himself. Look what they're saying about him, will ya: They're implying his election was a fraud, that he's connected to people involved in fraud and - as if that's not enought - that he's loud mouthed ignoramous (they use other words).
So far I haven't heard that G. Dubya is suing them or their web site or its administrator or their ISP or anything.
What about our own Federal head honcho...Jean Cretin? He gets trashed pretty much all the time. I bet he's not going to sue this web site because I called him a cretin and so far, I'm not aware that he's suing the legions of people who routinely spout unpleasantness at him.
Then there's the Mayor of our great city, Mel Megamouth Lastman...well, I won't even go there. He'd be suing pretty much the entire population of the GTA if got his shorts in a knot whenever somebody took his name in vain.
So where does McUnion get off suing working people who criticize its almighty leaders?!
I want to hear why the leaders of McUnion consider themselves to be above criticism and I'm not going to stop asking.
Something to mull over:
This is the web site of Youth for Socialist Action, an activist group that has been threatened with legal action by the UFCW over an article that appeared in its newspaper several months ago . This is the web site of UFCW Local 1000a , whose officials were the subject of the article. The young socialists are inspired by Che Guevara. Local 1000a is inspired by its President Kevin Corporon and the UFCW machine.
Guevara gave up his life in the fight against injustice. I doubt that Corporon could be persuaded to give up a fraction of his $130K a year salary for the same cause.
Who do you think is going to win this fight?
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Who do you think is going to win this fight?
Easy. Youth for Socialist Action. 