🚀 go-pugleaf

babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie Abbott) wrote:

>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?

Because it would cost money instead of make money?

>: 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.

Unfortunately for students, it didn't.

>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.

Living off government largesse?  Who do you think pays CUPE members?
The government, and students (whether they're government supported or
not).

>:      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.

Somehow eating dogs charbroiled on a Lada, and served by a bored CUPE
member wouldn't have the same flavour. And it would have cost just as
much, if not more.

>: 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.

Keep laughing, but you haven't heard the last of us - maybe next time
it'll be your job that's lost.