It's even been announced on their website.
No splashy ads this time, and no free Fat Franks, thankfully.
They are planning a potluck, though. From 11-3 on Monday, AUPE picketers will be using our home for their party.
Our home.
But they've never had any respect for our homes, or private property.
Sure, they're working on their new public image of how quiet it supposedly is on the picket line. They've even published an "interview" on their facebook page of someone from the twitterverse who came here and was all shocked about how people weren't crapping on the sidewalks and stuff.
Funny how there was someone there to interview a person who supposedly showed up at random to check things out for themselves.
Obviously, not someone who was well informed and didn't know that AUPE has been putting on a public show. Someone who never got to see what they're like, say, out back of the high rise. Someone who apparently thinks that, just because they saw their current behaviour, after having been forced to back off from their previous tactics, the past somehow just didn't happen, and everything is hunky-dorey.
Of course, no one *in* Artspace had any notion this person was coming here and they never got a chance to talk to people who live here about the effects AUPE's actions have had on our community; the people who have been targeted for abuse for months, and who's health has been damaged.
Even the title of the audio file, A visitor to SAIL, is bogus. The visitor never saw SAIL, because the picketers aren't *at* SAIL. They are at Artspace. Our home.
But then, AUPE has always tried to mix that up to excuse the fact that they are still picketing our private homes.
And, of course, they don't get to see what's still going on, even if things are supposedly so "peaceful" right now.
Like this morning, when the picketers demonstrated that they don't need bull horns to be heard all down the street. They were blocking the replacement workers again, and sounded like they were having quite the grand ol' time while they did it, with some ridiculously loud and weird cackling.
For a group that is demanding "respect" they sure don't seem to respect anyone or anything else.
Including that "private property" sign they're standing next to. They keep creeping farther and farther into our parking lot.
Also, what they are doing here is not actually legal. This is how it was explained to us by the police.
The purpose of a picket line is to inform. Once they are done informing, the person being blocked has the right to leave. They cannot continue to block you.
This includes the security vehicle.
They have the right to block for a "reasonable" length of time - the time it takes to inform. Once the driver says they are informed, they can start moving forward.
The picketers are supposed to move.
The police warned us that they will complain about being hit, but if they don't move out of the way, charges could be laid against the picketers.
If, on the other hand, all they are doing is yelling insults, like when they were busily telling the replacement workers that they were garbage and pieces of shit, among other things, there is NO requirement to sit there and take it.
As you can see in the photo above, the picketers are making no effort to inform anyone of anything. They pretty much never do.
Problem is, obviously, this is not enforced.
It's also rather hard to start moving forward when people are actually leaning on the vehicle.
Or perhaps "lounging" would be a better description.
They certainly aren't allowed to block people just because they are ticked, like in these images...
This image is from some video taken when the picketers decided to block a couple of people for 20 minutes. They made it clear that the person was being punished for their pictures being put on the internet. They made no attempt to inform and the only communication was to insult, such as the moment this image was screen capped from, where she is calling the people inside the van "bullies."
That's right. They block two people - leaving the security vehicle they were blocking moments before, and inside the parking space, well into private property - for 20 minutes out of sheer spite, and she says it's the people in the vehicle who are the bullies.
Not too swift, that one.
As near as can be made out, considering they were yelling on top of each other at the time, the person on the far right is yelling "get out."
Sooo... they are blocking the vehicle from moving, and telling them to leave at the same time?
Not the swiftest, either.
What it basically amounts to is that virtually every time they have blocked a vehicle for this entire strike has been illegal.
Including when the security vehicle is being blocked.
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