Chicanery

Chicanery

The dictionary describes chicanery as follows: clever underhanded action to achieve an end. Synonymous with subterfuge.

Just when you thought you’d heard it all our president comes up with something new.  We want you all to recognize that NO Union has been formally charged with any of the crimes mentioned by our president, in the following story.

And now for the rest of the story:

When the Health Sector Bargaining Unit Review Act (Bill 29) was passed in the spring of 2018 what did the MGEU do?  Our president started her trip around the province to talk to MGEU members as well as CUPE and other Union members about the benefits of everyone coming to the MGEU.  Not only did she travel the province she was also buying ice cream and other treats for all these various Union members as well.  For those that remember, our Board of Directors then voted to give our president $3 million for the health care campaign.  Then we started hosting pizza and sandwich days for CUPE members at the HSC.  Obviously the $3 million allotted for the MGEU campaign was not sufficient and our president went back of the Board for an additional $2 million.  All was well, the MGEU was way out in front of every other Union in Manitoba.

Around about the middle of October 2018 it became clear that our Home Care staff would also be part of the votes.  It appears that another Union jumped on this and was out meeting with our Home Care members where they work and at their offices.  Next thing we hear is that this other Union is terrifying our Home Care members and if that wasn’t enough, they were also lying to them.  Listening to Home Care members it has become very obvious that these members are very unhappy with how the MGEU has represented them over the past 35 years or so.  Most, make no bones about wanting to leave the MGEU and potentially getting the recognition they feel they deserve as part of the Health Care Team.

We have heard from some of these same members that they had a meeting with our president on Monday this week.  They have reported back to the Blogging Consortium that they are very troubled with some of the things that were said at this meeting.  They were told that anything that any other Union tells them are lies.  She told them that she has been threatened and her children are all in fear for her life, (we’ve heard this before) and have suggested she step down as president of the MGEU.  (She won’t) She reports that she is being followed and harassed.  What a lot of us know for a fact is that when our president is losing, she will resort to these sorts of tactics.  We forgot to ask if she was crying while telling our members this nonsense, as this is just one more of the maneuvers she keeps in her arsenal.   We have truly never seen anyone that plays the sympathy card as well as she does.  If you are not reporting these sorts of things to the police, then either they are NOT true or you have no proof.  We understand that the Area 5 Director is with her at all times to be her body guard?   She has finally found a job for him after she prevented him from being moved to a CUPE local in the Southern Authority and she seconded him to work at the MGEU when there was no real purpose for that secondment.  His employer had an obligation to find him appropriate work after injuring himself on the job.   What most of the members may not realize is that this same individual has been traveling with her for years, while trying to intimidate our members with his camera.

What we do know is that all Unions in the province of Manitoba that represent Health Care Members are fighting for their place.  No one wants to lose members but at the end of the day it comes down to the wishes of those individuals voting.  Laying all this subterfuge at our members feet and asking them to ignore what any other Union has to say is so ignorant on the MGEU’s part we can barely speak.  Stop your nonsense Ms. president and start acting like the biggest and best Union in the province, anything else makes you look weak and afraid!