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SharynS
Post Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:12 pm

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Location: the 'puter 		An historic protest brought together strange bedfellows in Port Alberni B.C. Members of Green Peace, Western Canada Wildlife Committee (WCWC), Lumber/Mill workers and Community Activists came out by the hundreds to stop the trucks from hauling away B.C.'s raw logs - and ultimately jobs - to foreign markets.

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That's It!
Post Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:44 pm

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Location: Western Canada 		I, for one, can't figure out why the Steelworkers Union are causing their own "special" financial advisors so many problems.

Check it out yourself: On April 13, 2005, the "United Steelworkers of America announced that it had signed a letter of intent with Tricap Management Limited (Tricap), Brascan Corporation's (NYSE/TSX: BNN) restructuring fund to work together on a C$1.35 billion plan to recapitalize Stelco Inc., and remove the Company from protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). Tricap would provide advisory services and, as required, financial assistance to the union in the development, negotiation and implementation of a plan of arrangement that is acceptable to the Steelworkers and removes Stelco from CCAA protection..."
I found this information on Brascan Corporation's Website: http://www.brascancorp.com/NewsRoom/2005/April13.html

In a photograph in the local Alberni Valley Times newspaper, it sure looked like Island Timberland logging trucks stopped in the protest. Isn't Island Timberlands owned by Tricap/Brascan? They sure are. What is going on? These two are supposed have a partnership agreement. I don't understand how the union could treat their partner so poorly. Is this for real?

And the plot thickens right here on Bill Cara's website: http://www.billcara.com/archives/2005/12/stelcos_ceo_was.html This is really getting interesting! The wicked webs we weave and unravel (sp?) on the web....I love the web!
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SharynS
Post Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:59 pm

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Location: the 'puter 		Maybe the tangled web was the "irony" Steelworkers Local 1-85 president Monty Mearns was referring to?

Oh it's a tangled woven web, no doubt. People will want to get to the bottom of it and they will. Everything just takes time and a couple googles.

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yankeebythewater
Post Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:50 pm

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Welcome To The New Googled Order . . . Mr. Green

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:24 pm

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Location: Western Canada 		A friend of mine suggested the following: "The deal was that the steelworkers would take over and sell out the forestry unions to make Brascan's holdings in BC worth more to them and in exchange the steelworkers would get the money for Stelco. I really believe the posting I made especially after travelling back to my old haunts back east last summer. The steelworkers have no interest in the forests, all they care about is their membership and the number one word in their name is Steelworkers."

This could be true...it certainly makes sense. The only thing I would think is different is the Steelworkers leadership actually care more about themselves than their members, otherwise, they would have never sought the partnership with Brascan/Tricap and got themselves into such an obvious conflict of interest.
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yankeebythewater
Post Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:38 pm

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hmm...Emerson has anything to do with any of this? Ain't that a wonderful thing, the ex-president ceo - holds firm in his riding. Yep, all makes sense to me. I have seen the light...

Aw heck, I forgot to mention those other pukes that are running the labor/government movement. Mr. Green X2

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:55 pm

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yankeebythewater wrote:
hmm...Emerson has anything to do with any of this? Ain't that a wonderful thing, the ex-president ceo - holds firm in his riding. Yep, all makes sense to me. I have seen the light...

Aw heck, I forgot to mention those other pukes that are running the labor/government movement. Mr. Green X2


David Emerson...that fits. Another Dave also comes to mind: Dave Haggard, although he was not succesful in his bid to get elected as a federal Liberal MP - (government elections are not as easy to rig...oops...I mean "control" as union elections)....Dave Haggard was the leader of the IWA union when it was rolled into the Steelworkers union.
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SharynS
Post Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:18 am

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Dave Haggard was the leader of the IWA union when it was rolled into the Steelworkers union.
There's more to that story than just; iwa became steelworkers and haggard became liberal. All in good time - one uncover'd deal at a time.

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:49 pm

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Location: Western Canada 		Today's (March 14, 2006) Alberni Valley Times newspaper has a photograph of a "[continuation of] last week's protest regarding raw log exports.". Last week, there were approx. 100 - 200 protesters. This time there were 5 protesters. The caption below the photograph says they were counting the number of trucks coming into and leaving the Alberni Valley. There is no information about the final count.

This all started in Youbou (Vancouver Island) in 1999. The NDP government removed the appurtenancy clause, via an order in coucil, from their tree farm licence agreement with Timber West, a large forest company. In doing so, the NDP removed the tie between logging and manufacturing. This allowed the forest company to shut down the Youbou sawmill forever and still retain the logging rights they held on public forest lands. The appurtenancy clause was the social tie between forest companies and the communities they logged in.

The IWA union (now Steelworkers) was there as it all unfolded - Youbou sawmill workers were IWA members. But rather than stand up for the people who's lives that were affected, the IWA union kept silent on the matter. Sickening isn't it! A new society was formed to fight the government's actions and inaction. It is called the Youbou Timberless Society: http://www.savebcjobs.com/about.htm

Now, six years later, the same union is standing up against raw log exports - What a farce! It must be union election time...Oh silly me...it is election time in the union! These protest will make it look the union is really taking a strong stand for people. I don't buy it.......most members don't buy it. But the union leadership has to justify how they managed to keep getting into ofice, time after time after time, yet no one admits to voting for them.
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