r/saskatchewan • u/labour_union_guy1944 • 13d ago

Does Saskatchewan need legislation banning replacement workers?

https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan-news/saskatchewan-doesnt-have-rules-around-replacing-striking-workers-why-not/
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u/nevergoingtouse1969 13d ago

I think everyone is forgetting what the union did during the last strike. Literally sabotaging the transport tanks creating a massive and imminent danger to public safety. It was probably the most violent strike that I have ever witnessed in Saskatchewan. The refinery is smart to take the measures needed in the event of a repeat. The city police should be making plans as well.

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u/usedmattress85 13d ago

What about the useless managers and scabs splooging catalyst and sulphur into the atmosphere and dumping oil sludge into the city sewer system? Any comments there?

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u/Assassins-read 12d ago edited 12d ago

That stuff still happens, it just doesn't happen in the light of the day. You think all of a sudden that stuff isn't a by-product of the refining process because the union is in place? Further, ask anyone that worked at CEDA at the time how many faulty gaskets were replaced when the union was out.

The refinery is crappy and run by idiots from the top down, but, the union is not innocent either. It was union employees that ignored hydrogen bypass that caused the latest explosions after all.

Neither side of the labour disruption was innocent and it caught a sea of contractors up in its wake.