Transport committee  You look for organizations that have a track record of delivering on or under budget, on or ahead of schedule, who have demonstrated an ability—especially in the world of construction—to deal with the reality that there will be change orders and unforeseen circumstances. You look

Transport committee  Without full competition, we don't have a race to excellence.

Transport committee  There is to the extent that federal legislation, both in the unionized government sector and private sector, allows discriminatory practices against union-free people in favour of unionized people. So collective agreement provisions that allow an employer and a union to agree to

Transport committee  The legislation allows the discrimination to take place. It takes place in no other country on earth but here.

Transport committee  I would totally disagree with that.

Transport committee  LabourWatch itself does not have any specific study of its own that would provide the information that I think you're asking me for. In my opening remarks, I endeavoured to refer to the studies of Gallup and studies of Hewitt looking at hundreds of thousands of employees over the

Transport committee  I would say it's largely because of the influence of what I call union-backed politicians, particularly at the city level. Unions like CUPE and others end up unduly influencing people's perspective on what to do, whether it's through money or through people who should be doing th

Transport committee  I recently did a CBC town hall debate in Hamilton with union leaders. Similar types of questions came up. I'm going to answer the question this way. We once had records and we don't any more. Now we have iPods, and goodness knows what we're going to have 20 years from now. Should

Transport committee  —change in the economic environment. As to this idea of what President Obama calls the right to work for less, I don't know a person who isn't figuring out how to make a dollar go further in life. But when I was the head of human resources for national employers like Future Shop

Transport committee  Unions have very comprehensive websites that explain to people how you get a union, organize a union, and keep a union. They have so much money to support that process. There's no need for us to duplicate their excellent services.

Transport committee  The comments that we've had back from working Canadians who have used our website are that in comparison to any union website with its anti-management, anti-capitalist rhetoric, they would call our website “neutral” or “balanced”. I will not call our website “neutral” or “balance

Transport committee  The way “duty of fair representation” complaints work is that an employer makes a decision in the workplace. The employee wishes to grieve the employer's decision. The union might not pursue the grievance, or it might drop the grievance, or it might negotiate a solution to the gr

Transport committee  Well, I have followed this City of Hamilton situation, which goes back to 2007. I've read about it, I've talked to people about it, and I once met with a vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Board about how this terrible thing could have happened to the City of Hamilton and its good

Transport committee  The Advance Cutting and Coring Ltd. case in 2001 took a look at Quebec's forced-unionization scheme, where every construction worker ultimately must join one of five unions or you don't pound nails or do construction work. The Supreme Court then took at look at the specific Quebe

Transport committee  We've got more and more competition in various parts of our economy in this country, and telecommunications would be a great example. I have to say, as a person in their fifties, that life is a lot better today with the telephone than it was when it was Ma Bell, Ma Bell, Ma Bell.