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Transport committee Correct. I think there's one other very important caveat. If we're going to have union bidding and unions are going to be able to take money in these funds called MERFs or STABs and use them to compete against the union-free, that strikes me as some sort of cartel-like restraint on trade that I'm shocked exists.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee No, not at all.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Absolutely.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee There are some that do.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Correct.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee It's the same tone that we take on our website. The LabourWatch website says, “If you want a union, join one. If you want to keep your union, work with the union to keep it there.” We want a level playing field that doesn't involve legislated discrimination.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Correct.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee I don't specifically have any knowledge of that being done. There are other ways that I've seen it in some municipalities. There are various schemes, and that's the difficulty. Those, of course, are all provincial and municipal jurisdictions; whatever scheme they want to have in place is their business.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Okay.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Every Canadian employee has a statutory right to join a union, sign a union card, not sign a union card, or cancel a union card. Multi-million dollar unions have very capable, talented professionals and lawyers who help employees who want to be unionized. But Mr. Coderre, our system is so biased against union-free workers that there is no one to help them understand their legal rights.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee No, but that's why we have that information there for people.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee We need to take away the legislated bias in favour of a minority of workers that accords inappropriate powers and a negative influence for taxpayers. Absolutely, sir.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee No. Mr. Coderre, with respect, please do not put words in my mouth.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer
Transport committee Okay. No. Just as I have a choice to be able to join a union, I should have an equal right to cancel a union card and decertify a union. My ability to work on a job site whether I'm unionized or union-free should be equal, and the facts are that it's not. There is a legislative discriminatory bias against people, and I just can't believe that in this country, in this era, we let that go on.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
John Mortimer