Today, the "quiet" picket line was loud enough to disturb people half way down the street. Artspace members who have been traumatised all these months get to hear their abusers laughing and chattering outside. Anyone who has survived an abuse situation - especially psychological abuse - knows how damaging just knowing they are out there can be.
It's not really any better, no matter how good of a light they try to play on it.
Looks like saysandra is another of their Newspeak propagandists. She's been posting about us on her twitter a fair bit.
Yeah, because interfering with the vital care for disabled people and the elderly is SO much fun, we need to dance!
Oh, wait... it's "something to do." So... they're bored of hassling people? Well, they can always leave if they're bored. They won't get paid if they do that, though.
Of course, we have pictures, too. Like this one of the woman with the pony tail.
Except here, she's trespassing in someones parking spot, smoking.
I do believe the police had quite a chat with the picketers after getting this photo, as it was also the last day they set their tripod up in our pee patch.
Yeah, because inconveniencing more than 100 people by disrupting essential services is all part of wonderful an unwritten code.
Or, as one member put it, maybe it means the garbage truck drivers don't want to deal with people who think it's fun to harass people and traumatise the vulnerable.
Oh, and BTW...
Crossing a Picket Line
Non-striking employees and their union(s) may be reluctant to cross a picket line. There are no provisions in the Labour Relations Code that allow non-striking employees to refuse to cross a picket line. Unionized employees who refuse to cross the picket line may be participating in an illegal strike. See: [ Illegal Strikes & Lockouts, Chapter 30(e)]. Both unionized and non-unionized employees who refuse to cross the picket line may be subject to employer discipline.
She also posted this photo.
Holy smokes! It's a better photo than the other one that went up, and now it looks even more like vomit.
What an insult to German cooking.
Oh, wait. She only "claims" it's German. Because the cook is Filipino.
Right. The cook being Filipino has something to do with it.
Or...
... uh ...
Whatever.
The twitter feed that's supposedly run by the picketing SAIL staff, meanwhile, had this photo of the Labour Day potluck that they held at our home.
Love how they are using our raised bed garden as an extension of their table. They treat that thing like they own it.
Y'know, if you're doing to demand respect, maybe you should at least show some respect for what belongs to other people.
Just sayin'
Then there's this one, posted this morning.
It was time stamped 4:42am.
That's right. It seems that someone was out here, already picketing our home, at 4 friggin' 42 in the morning.
What the heck for?
Then they tried to slag our replacement workers.
There's one sliiiiight problem with this.
The high rise doesn't have a back lawn (and the back of the townhouses is gated for security).
There is an empty lot, there. It's private property, but the owners are, I believe, a company and are not in Edmonton.
Which means it is generally untended, overgrown and often used by the homeless in the community, who set up camps under the trees and in the tall grass. Other people have used it to deal or use drugs, and sometimes as a toilet. Sadly, it has also been the site of a vicious assault not too long ago. Not a good area.
Yesterday, someone (probably from the City) came by with a tractor and mowed it severely short.
That's where this picture was taken.
So for them to insinuate that 1) this was part of our "back lawn" is dishonest and then 2) disparage the replacement workers by suggesting the gloves came from them is pretty obnoxious and petty. They even claimed to have witnessed "used gloves being thrown in a recycling bin, unbagged."
Yeah, they're shovelling it hard.
Posted right under the photo above, it makes it sound like they saw replacement workers tossing used gloves improperly - you know, those gloves that apparently SAIL doesn't provide in the first place. Of course, they don't actually say what kind of gloves and who disposed of them. In fact, I would like to know just what recycling bin they are talking about. We have a big bin inside the garbage room, which they might be able to see if the door were open.
And since they had three people staked out in the back of the high rise, watching people's doors, windows and balconies, with one of them having a camera, it's possible that they were able to look down the hallway and see someone putting gloves in the bin.
However, if that were the bin they are talking about, they would also know that it's currently too full for anyone to have been able to add anything more to it.
Any other bins would be indoors, which they can't see.
So what are they talking about?
There's one fact they will never be able to get away from.
The replacement workers have been doing a MUCH better job than the picketing SAIL staff had been doing for at least 10 years. These are a fantastic bunch of people, who not only put up with abuse, harassment and stalking, but still manage to have a fantastic attitude while providing superior care.
And to think... if the SAIL staff hadn't decided to walk off the job, many of our user members would not have realized just how bad their care had been.
Plus, now that they've seen the true colours of the picketing SAIL staff, they appreciate care workers who truly do care, are good at their jobs, and appreciate having such easy work, that much more.
Oh, and yeah. As mentioned above...
At one point, they had three people watching the back of the high rise today. They had camp chairs set up on the sidewalk at the end of the cul de sac on 94th, and one of them had a camera.
Just imagine looking out your window, right now, and seeing three creepers sitting there, watching you, and taking pictures or video.
That's what we at Artspace still have to live with, at this oh-so-quiet picket line. That and they still verbally harass certain individuals as they go by, while sucking up to others.
And to think... AUPE is paying them to do this.
Union dues, hard at work!
Meanwhile, the picketers were heard to talk about how they're looking forward to tomorrow.
It seems they have something planned for us.
Because, remember, Kids!
It's FUN to terrorise a community. Especially if you can get paid to do it, too!
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