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william burchill (williamb@ee.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Our story so far: UBC Food Services invites Mr. Tubesteak to hustle hotdogs
: on campus.

Campus Food Services wanted to do exactly the same thing one or two years 
ago and the administration turned them down. Why?

: CUPE, confused and concerned, condemned. 

Not confused, but certainly concerned and rightfully condemned.

: Too terrorized by tubesteaks?

It is called the thin edge of the wedge, or the slippery slope. Whatever 
you want to call it, it was yet another attempt by the administration to 
weaken the union.

: Cowardly, campus cognoscenti capitulate. High Noon for Hotdog Handlers!
: To paraphrase, tubesteakers were told to get out of town by sundown, Jan 31,
: or eat lead!

Live with it: CUPE won this round.

: Moral Bankruptcy: By caving in to a few whiners, UBC's administration has 
: displayed a politically expedient moral bankruptcy.  While hotdogs aren't
: worth defending, people's jobs and certain principles are. Why have they
: been trashed? (De-employed and dis-upheld if you prefer.) 

I resent my union being referred to as "a few whiners". If you wish to 
name-call then how about "a bunch of overpriveleged students, tiresomely 
parroting neo-conservative rubbish, while living off government largesse"
lost in their attempt to have hot-dogs dished up to them by non-union labour.

:      The tubesteakers created their own jobs without displacing others. They
: work for every penny they earn, and are cheerful and courteous. It's fun
: to go to their little carts, and students line up for them even in the rain.

If the administration wanted the campus community to have fun by lining 
up at little carts, then they could have had union people do it. Because 
they didn't, no union jobs were created. That means that they displaced 
other, unionized workers, from working.

: Many people believe hard work, innovation, job creation, and services to 
: students should be encouraged, or at least not outlawed. To the UBC
: Administration: Please show us that you agree, and invite the tubesteakers
: to remain. It may not be the easiest, but it is the right thing to do.

As I said further up the page: live with it; you lost this one.

cheers