Sid Ryan tries to Dance
Rondi has reported on the execrable behaviour of the CUPE leader of late and Doc has followed up as well.It now seems Sid Ryan has had to backtrack from his more obvious anti-Semitic utterances:
CUPE Ontario's president yesterday said a Nazi reference he used to justify criticism of Israel was "a poor choice of analogy," after a trustee with the Toronto District School Board condemned such references in calling on his board to disavow the union's proposal to ban Israeli academics from the province's post-secondary schools.
It's nice to see him getting some blowback from the Toronto District School Board.
Ryan also tried to fob off the TDSB rebuke:
However he insisted the TDSB is "wasting their time" discussing Mr. Matlow's motion because "it has nothing to do with them, it is directed at universities."
The trustee has a good comment on this:
Mr. Matlow acknowledged it is not the school board's purview to debate Israel's action but said: "Mr. Ryan brought it here by trying to censor academics in a hateful way." He added: "We need to respond in an intelligent way and my motion is one response."
Moreover, as Doc points out in another post,
The current president of The University of Western Ontario wrote, to me, "... CUPE does not set policy at our University. Israeli academics will continue to be welcome at Western."
This would appear to suggest Ryan is wasting his time. And he is certainly involving the union in a non-union issue. And also applying a ridiculous double standard.
I feel privileged I never had to join a union in my workplace after reaching the age of about 20. Having to fund leaders like this, and union leadership attracts clowns like Ryan, would have left me with a pretty rotten feeling.
Labels: moral bankruptcy, Sid Ryan, unions
posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:22 AM
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