I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.
I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.
Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
Good council has no price.