Video of the Day: that's what's called "extortion"

Word through the grapevine is that AUPE intends to "turn up the heat" if things don't go their way by the end of September.

What does that mean?

Well, the last time they promised that, it was before the SAIL board had a chance to look at the mediator's recommendation.

Which is when they started going this.




For this entire labour dispute, AUPE has targeted the entire Artspace community, and even included some of our neighbours.  They have openly demanded that Artspace members turn on their board members - both the Artspace board and the SAIL board, even to the point of saying we should evict them. Which does more to show how ignorant they are of how co-ops work than make their point, but they've never been particularly interested in educating themselves.  Much easier to just make things up as they go along, I suppose.

The above video was taken on July 23.  That same day, AUPE's "Avocatzo" left this comment here on the blog.

Well, as expected, your SAIL board produced bogus, imaginary financial numbers today in order to "justify" an egregiously bad faith bargaining position. Maybe even to justify some form of fraud that has been masked by seven years of Mickey Mouse unaudited statements. An independent, objective mediator will soon issue a report agreeing with the Union position. And SAIL will reject it because they are in bad faith. And so, if you think that the Sunday Tea Party that you have been enduring over the last few weeks has been annoying, wait till you experience the full wrath of the working class. Karma is a bitch, baby. By the way, why don't you ask Chris and Roxanne why none of their numbers make any sense? 

Aside from the tiresome false and defamatory accusations against SAIL, whose board members have always been very open to questions from all Artspace members, we got threatened with "the full wrath of the working class..."  

How Marxist of him.  A rather petulant and ignorant threat to make against a community that completely overturns notions of class distinction; where all membership is equal, regardless of age, ability, income, race, gender, and so on.  It took AUPE to introduce classicism, racism and sexism into our community.

Then they did this.

Funny.  Avocatzo has stopped trying to post comments on the blog.  I wonder it's because his comments demonstrate that it is AUPE that is operating on bad faith, and not SAIL?  

So, according to AUPE's "avocat" (French for lawyer - and avocado - in case you're wondering), what AUPE has done to the Artspace community, to punish us all for SAIL not capitulating to their demands, is just a "Sunday Tea Party."  That we have yet to "experience the full wrath of the working class."

Which is, of course, extortion.