This was yelled out at our replacement workers, and printouts were handed out to our members.
Our replacement staff has been amazing. They have been providing superior care to our user members - some have even commented that they didn't know care could be this good! This in spite of the fact that they've been verbally abused for weeks, while being escorted in a security vehicle in and out of our property. The vehicle gets blocked for inordinate lengths of time; I believe the longest has been for 2 1/2 hours, though an hour is not at all unusual - and the replacement workers are working 12 hour shifts, unlike the 8 hour shifts our striking staff had been working. This has resulted in at least one user member not being able to go to work because no one was available to help her transfer out of bed.
Early in the strike, one of the striking care staff was heard to yell at a replacement worker, that her mother should have put a bag over her head when she was born.
More recently, a striking care staff worker was heard shouting up to a balcony, threatening the care worker she saw (not a replacement care worker) with "I'm going to take you out!"
On hearing our replacement workers being called "scabs" all the time, one of our members made this sign, which ended up being put up in the high rise main entrance, where the picketers could see it.
The AUPE "leader" at the time objected to it. Why?
He said it was "disrespectful."
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