Who says you can't fight City Hall?

CUPE Locals in cities around the Lower Mainland are gearing up for what could be a long, hot, stinky, and brutal strike.

This page says thank gawd: it's about f**king time somebody stood up to the NPA and their fellow travellers who mistake fellating real estate developers and right-wing posturing for actual governing. It's also time that a union in this province wiped the February 13, 2010 date stamp off their foreheads. The City of Vancouver can't hand out raises and huge bonuses to managers while expecting CUPE Local 15 members to accept concessions and wage freezes just because the Olympics are coming. This could explain why Mayor Sam Sullivan refuses to bargain.

As for the City's claim that their offer is in line with other public sector settlements around the province, let's not forget that those agreements were lubricated by Carole Taylor's signing bonus bribery. My CUPE Local fell for the easy money, and in return received wage increases that don't keep up with the cost of living, job classification gridlock, ongoing discrimination of our members, and no safeguards against contracting out. Having been to a few CUPE B.C. conventions, this page can say that it's the municipal locals that set the tone on the convention floor. Hopefully, CUPE 15 will be able to set a much louder tone by taking Sullivan and his right-wing minions to the wall the same way CAW 111 helped flush Vancouver of George Puil and the NPA following the 2001 transit strike.