Video of the Day: dangerous actions

One of the things AUPE and their picketers do a lot is accuse Artspace members of abusing the picketers and trying to harm them.  Typically, someone in Artspace would describe how the picketers have been harassing, intimidating, threatening, etc. our members, and some spokesperson from AUPE would go, "oh, no, no, no!  We're just the most peaceful people ever!  It's the people in Artspace that have been [fill in the blank] our poor, hapless picketers!  We're not bullies, Artspace members are!"

And the drones would diligently nod their heads, repeat the lies, but make no effort to verify the truth.

Yeah.

Here we have more proof to the contrary.



This video was taken early on June 12, 2014.  The location is at the Northeast side of the high rise.  As described in this post, this is on Artspace private property.  The property line extends into the paved lane.

The video is just over 14 minutes long, but I do not know when they actually started to block the car, so we don't currently know just how much longer the person had been blocked.

The man in the car is an Artspace board member.  He's also the Artspace board representative to the SAIL board, so while he's not on the SAIL board, he's had the misfortune of having to attend the farcical negotiation process with AUPE.

The three women in front are among the few SAIL staff that bother to show up on the picket line, and one of them - the one on the far left - is not one of the regulars. She has another job elsewhere.

The man at the driver's side window is someone we've seen pretty consistently out here, and he is pretty much universally held in disgust for his actions on the picket line, but we had no idea who he was or what connection he had to anything.

Thanks to David Eggen, now we know his name is Jaime Urbina, and what he is.

Young Activist Committee?

So, this guy is some sort of mentor for youth?

Wow.

[Update: Oct. 25 - according to AUPE's documents for their annual convention, this committee is aimed at members aged 30 and under.]

Watch the video right to the end, where you can see him deliberately running in front of a moving vehicle, going out of his way to try and get himself hit.  The picketers, of course, blame the driver, not the idiot jumping in front of a moving vehicle.

He's also with David Eggen and Deb Arcand, posing for a photo on David Malka's Facebook page.

After the fiasco last month, David Eggen apparently went into damage control and tried to claim various things to excuse what he did, but the reality is (as can be seen on his endorsement page), he's quite thoroughly in bed with several people who have been key players in the siege against Artspace members.

Which brings me to the other guy at the car, David Malka.  He was the picket line captain for almost 2 months, and one of the most aggressive and abusive people there.  This is the guy who earned the nicknames Captain McCreepypants, Creeper and The Urinator.  Though no longer on the picket line, he continues to harass Artspace members and creep on them, including while volunteering at the Folk Festival, movie theatres and his personal Facebook page, along with AUPE's fake lawyer, William Rigutto, aka Avocatzo.

What's particularly of note is the guy in the blue shirt who wanders in and out of the video and takes part in the verbal abuse of our board member, which explains why I used the term "farcical" to describe the negotiation process.

That's Kevin Davediuk, the AUPE negotiator, oft quoted by the media.

Let that sink in for a moment.

The AUPE negotiator - the guy SAIL is supposed to be able to work out a collective agreement with - is here at Artspace, taking part in trespassing, excessive blocking and verbal harassment of an Artspace board member and board representative to SAIL.

Let's try and put this into a  first person perspective.

Imagine you have to privately talk to some people to work out a deal of some kind.

The other side is demanding things you can't give them, refuses to compromise, and no deal is reached.

So one of the people you've been talking to shows up at your home, in your driveway, along with a bunch of other aggressive people, traps you in your vehicle, watches while you are verbally harassed and abused for more than 15 minutes, and even takes part in the abuse.

Question:

Do you think this is someone you can go back to the table with and have a civil discussion?

Do you think you'd be able to work out any kind of deal with this person?

Do you think this is a person who could ever negotiate in good faith?

Yet this is the person that SAIL is supposed to negotiate a collective agreement with.




Updated with more video, Oct. 25.