41 Replies to “Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Strike”

  2. Only been is Saskatchewan for three years.
    Got here just after the last election.
    So, I’m watching the parade of unions in the news and wondering how many there are and how long this can go on.
    Can the public sector unions tip an election?

  3. Dance,
    Yes, the unions could tip an election, but likely not in the way that the NDP will like. The misfortune that the Saskatchewan public unions have is that they are striking during a time of greater scrutiny on their deals than ever before. Add in the transparent attempt to strike to cause maximum disruption, and you will find that the tactic will backfire on the NDP, not the Sask Party. The unions have been used to great effect (see Hermanson, Elwin) but they will slowly lose their power if Mr. Wall manages to govern cleanly through the next two election cycles.

  4. Good for Premier Wall. Stick to your guns.
    dance, the unions and the NDP started planning the summer and fall of union attempts to make the Wall government look bad right after the last election when the Sask Party fixed the next election date. This is why they are buying air time for commercials denigrating the Wall government and ramping up the union actions.

  6. Public sector unions may hold sway over their membership in election years … may …. but they do not have the support they believe in the general public.
    That delusion of widespread public support is just union propaganda and one of the things the MSM likes to promote …. so people who get their information from the lamstream may think it could be true.
    Of course if half the jobs in the province are public sector dependent…..

  7. This letter was dated yesterday, yet I heard no mention of it on Gormley today. (Although a whole section was about this issue) Did I miss it or do we need to make sure he is aware of this?
    Speaking of Gormley, one nice side effect of the Cons majority and Sun TV is even Gormley seems to have sharper teeth these days!

  8. Derek,
    The repeat should be on newstalk right now, but I was pretty sure that he spent a bit of time in the first couple hours on it – especially leading up to the deadline.

  9. I am a farmer and I know the crop ins employee well. I have been in it for 20 years. They work hard and care about t heir customers. I beleive they didnt mean to steike durig the flood. It is always the most busiest time of the.uear (seeded acreage reports) I dont blame the crop ins employees.. They were without a contract for 2 years. Brad wall put it off now it is back firing on him. Get ur sh#t together wall.

  10. Has anyone noticed that Linginfelter has been strangely quiet on the Crop Insurance strike?
    Probably there are quite a few adjusters who are pretty upset by the strike as well, but they are muzzled by the fact that in Saskatchewan unions can fine any of their members who show up for work during a strike. Only in Saskatchewan.

  11. Thanks, Oxygentax, I’ll have to listen to the podcast, the live broadcast was somewhat in the background while working.
    As for where Saskatchewan is, if you know where BC or Ontario are, they are no where near either… Thank God (Sorry Robert W.)

  13. Linginfelter actually said he is not.going to sign and said mr wall dug his own hole by leaving them without a co tract for 2 years. I wonder what he does with his time.. Giving himself and his employees fat raises. Hes trying to be a hero now, when this all is happening because of his lazyness.

  16. Oh sure, now Mr. Wall finds his testicular fortitude. Too bad he couldn’t have demonstrated strong leadership in dealing with SWEEP to make the ewaste program open for all qualified Saskatchewan businesses. Pick and choose Mr. Wall, but pick and choose wisely!

  17. I am surprised that the results for Premier Walls action are higher on CKRM are actually higher than News Talk Radio.

  18. Hey Mars, make sure you tell Bymoen at your guys’ next meeting that I said hello. Guess what, your strategy of ganging up all the unions on Wall has failed miserably and has only made him more popular. And sorry, your scare tactics is NOT the “Saskatchewan way”. Hate to bust your bubble.

  20. THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR SASKATCHEWAN!
    GOODBYE UNIONS!
    THEY JUST SPIT ON THEIR OWN SHOES! HAHAHA!
    GOODBUY UNIONS! GOODBYE NDP!!

  21. I told my new Saskparty MLA’s rep, that what I’m looking for after the next election is to be the first province to introduce a Right to Work policy.

  22. mars – do you think it is just coincidence that several unions of public employees have had their negotiation go on ad nauseum? It is plain to see that there is a concerted effort under the Sask Federation of Labour that public sector union negotiations are to be dragged out so that union sentiment of the Wall government boils over come election time this fall.
    They are making demands that they know Wall won’t give in to. They have nothing to lose. They will get what they eventually settle for retroactive to the end of their last contract. In the meantime the plan is to drag it out and blast the government.
    Non-union folks in the province are not being fooled by the fools.

  23. a different bob – you nailed it, even teachers are starting to ask why all these other union represented public employees have not had a contract in place either. Things are starting to stink, something rotten will be exposed.

  24. i am sick and tired of these union types that think the tax payers owe them a liveing.
    they want high wages and top pensions and have us work till we die to pay for it.
    guess what………i’m sick of it and i say fire the lot of them.
    stick to your guns Mr.Wall.

  25. Bee-man is an opportunistic, self-absorbed fascist with the conscience of a spoiled child who’s been in his position for far too long. I used to do media monitoring about 8 years ago, and I used to cringe whenever his florid face came before me. He doesn’t seem to have changed.
    Some SGEU rankers were told this would be the summer of discontent. Let nothing–especially not compassion–interfere with that agenda. This is all about bludgeoning the government.

  26. a different bob,exactly and the NDP and Sask Federation of Labour started planning this right after the last provincial election and when Premier Wall set an election date for 2011. This so-called labour dispute is a coordinated effort by the Marxists to undermine the Wall government.
    We need right to work legislation and other initiatives to break the stranglehold the unions have in this province. Unions are needed in some workplaces, but they have been running the province through their NDP Party maid servant.

  28. Simple rule:
    If you are a public sector union insisting on a monopoly to provide a service, you give up the right to strike.
    If you allow competition, strike as often as you want.
    (Many) Problem(s) solved.

  29. For all the understanding types bemoaning Wall forleaving the union with no contract for two years: the table has two sides, dudes.
    Public sector unions are an idea whose time has come and gone. The union poobahs are watching their cushy sinecures circling the bowl, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing something so fundamentaly EVIL as calling a strike in the middle of a f-ing 500 year flood.
    Its on the same moral level as looting. Wall has all the justification he needs to legislate them back to work and break that union for good.

  30. KevinB you read my mind. If you go to work for a monopoly you do not have the right to hold the public hostage through extortion. Individual rights trump mob demands.

  31. They didnt go on strike because of the flood. I knowe they were taking about it 2 months ago as I beleive this is the busiest time of year for keying seeded acreage reports. Which in a normal year wouldnt greatly affect a customer. Why would they strike in january when most people are laid off? Mr wall thinks they went on strike because of the flood but hes wrong–hes just trying to be a hero now but hes fooling all of u.

  32. Besides, all the other farmers in this province that did get something seeded do not get paid either until fall or early spring when we sell our grain. I dont know why wall thinks they need their money now or they will starve. Loojs to me wall doesn’t know how farming works. again–hes trying to be the”hero”. And he is just all upset about the peoples houses flooding-and he is mixing up crop ins with sgi.

  33. Exactly KevinB, a stroke of the pen gave the government unions that monopoly and a stroke of the pen can take away the right to strike as long as they have that monopoly.
    As you said, as soon as they allow competition they can strike as much as they want.

  38. Union accepts 5.5 over 3 years with an extra .25% in the 3rd year. Brad Wall looks like a strong decisive leader. Bob Bymoen…not so much.

  39. Aren’t most CI inspectors retired or off for the summer school teachers double dipping for extra cash? A few former Govt. employees on early retirement thrown in?
    As mars says, poor folks are laid off in the winter and need a raise so they don’t have to be dipping into their STF pension.

  40. B-man may soon start to figure it out. All the people he is using as pawns are beginning to find out.
    Let’s say you are a RN and you are dealing with the horse puckie being dealt to you. You may not be out but it sure affects your stress level. Now who is responsible for that? Brad Wall or union brothers and sisters that tend to be slackers at work?
    Never knew a union rep that was not a whiner and slacker.

  41. Mars is so typical of the bitter socialist who has remained cloistered in his basement since November of 2007 waiting for the inevitable privatization of nursing homes, conversion of hospitals to sterilization clinics for those receiving social assistance and transfer of provincial parks to large corporations to facilitate the storage of nuclear waste.
    He wails and moans as he hears reports on the radio of Saskatchewan’s prosperity and population growth and stares longingly at his autographed portraits of Tommy Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd. He has ventured outside only long enough to erect Nettie Wiebe election signs and attend the NDP sponsored free barbecue in Riversdale.
    Sorry Mars .. Saskatchewan has finally moved on from the days of zero growth, equalization payments and a general attitude of hopelessness and despair.
    Share in this province’s long-overdue economic boom or get out of the way. The days of Bob Bymoen and those of his ilk dictating government policy are gone forever.

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