Oops, they did it again (Updated)

Since noticing that AUPE has their own count-up timer on their website, counting the number of days under lockout, we've been wondering what they would do for today.  Based on their counter, today would have been day 100.

So far, nothing much has been going on outside.  Aside from tending our raised bed garden, that is; despite the "private property, no trespassing" signs all over the place, like the one below, they've manipulated one of our members (in their efforts to divide and conquer, they have been nice to some members, aggressive with others) into allowing them to "help" tend the flowers and herbs, which requires trespassing.

Which means they are deliberately putting one of our vulnerable members (and an amazing survivor, which makes it rather more despicable) into a position where she is acting counter to an official statement from the co-op; someone they've been using to their advantage for pretty much the entire labour dispute.  It is painful to watch her being manipulated like this.

To be clear, this has nothing to do with the labour dispute, but with the safety of our members.  Those signs went up because someone allowed the picketers into the high rise, much to the alarm of other members.  The garden beds are Artspace private property and have nothing to do with SAIL; garden beds they still treat as their own playground, picking through them, leaning against the walls (at least they seem to have stopped actually sitting on them), including the walls along the driveway to the underground parking, completely ignoring the no trespassing signs right behind them.

Overall, though, it's been quiet today.  There are hardly any picketers, and aside from the trespassing and using some of our members for their own benefit, there's not much going on out there.

It was a curious thing, until some of us went back to the AUPE website.

And caught them re-writing history, again.

They've changed the start date of their counter.

Unfortunately, no one got a screen cap of the previous counter, but since they neglected to change the text, they now have this...

It's still different from our own (the difference may be whether or not the counter counts the immediate date, or perhaps because the strike started in the afternoon, and someone knew the exact, official time the strike started), but now they're saying that the SAIL staff (not SAIL, since that's the company name, so that's another error on their part) have been locked out for 111 days.

Now, if they'd stuck with the lock out date, today would have been day 100, but since they've moved to the starting date of the strike but forgot to fix the text, they are now falsely claiming that the staff have been locked out for this long.

Oops.

AUPE, caught trying to re-write history again.

Update:

Okay, seriously, you guys?

So AUPE has gone and changed their counter again.

And they STILL got it wrong.

Since they apparently need us to tell them this, let me try and give them a hand.

Here's the new screen cap.

I just had to include their cute little retro TV graphic, linking to their slick propaganda video.  I invite you to watch it.  Especially starting around 3:45.

Why, you ask?

Because it's a set up.  The woman in the wheelchair is Meagan; you can read about her here.

AUPE basically had that picketer hang around, then force a hug on Meagan.  She did not want that person approaching her, did not want a hug, and did not know she was being recorded for an AUPE video.  In fact, AUPE has been served legal notice to remove the video because she did not give permission for herself to be used as a prop for their propaganda video.

Obviously, AUPE has ignored it.

Then there is the changed counter text.  "SAIL has been on the line..."

No, SAIL has not.  Supports for Artspace Independent Living is the employer.  A company.

AUPE is basically saying that the employer has been picketing themselves.

And finally there's the little graphic below.  That's a link to the picketing schedule.

112 / 7 = 16.

It's been 16 weeks.  Not 14.

Okay, so the lock out has been about 14 weeks, but since the strike has never ended (it was only "suspended"), and the counter is now all about the length of time on the picket line, the two next to each other just makes it look like a contradiction.

How many times are they going to goof up a simple counter?