The Alberta Union of Public Employees (UPE) staged a wildcat strike to protest the Alberta government's outsourcing of services to private contractors. The strike also included a Marxist banner with the head of the union standing in front of a "Marxist" banner.
00:00:00.000Welcome to The Rant for October 26, 2020. I'm Cory Morgan, Chief Ranter from the Western Standard Online.
00:00:09.140Lots of items in the news today getting me worked up. I'll get through those headlines to help you get worked up with them too because I like to share my anger and misery and rantiness.
00:00:19.260And as I've said before in past rants, I find it therapeutic. It should be good for you too. Get it out of your system. There's always lots of things to go over.
00:00:27.320So the top news today, first thing greeting me in the morning. There was apparently a wildcat strike. Well, not apparently, it did happen.
00:00:34.680Healthcare support workers walked out all over the province and hospitals all over the place, thus delaying surgeries, procedures, and critical issues.
00:00:43.840It is a pandemic, but right now what's more important is having a temper tantrum over UCP plans, which they were elected to do,
00:00:51.740to start outsourcing services such as laundry and some food preparation and things to contractors rather than having government employees doing it in-house.
00:01:00.660What's neat out of this little union endeavor too is listening to them saying AUPE, oh, this was a purely organic thing.
00:01:09.880We didn't even know it was coming. It was just members on their own got up and did this.
00:01:13.860Meanwhile, as you can see in that picture, that's Guy Smith, the head of the AUPE, which is the Alberta Union of Public Employees,
00:01:21.300who happened to have his microphone and tripod set up and be there first thing this morning.
00:01:25.600For being surprised, he certainly was well prepared.
00:01:29.220The other thing that's striking in this spontaneous wildcat action across the province,
00:01:35.800you see that strike to bring down Kenny's sign there.
00:01:38.220I mean, for one, Kenny was democratically elected. Get over it. Win the next election. Put your socialists back in power.
00:01:44.000Until then, he's doing what we put him there to do, and that's called democracy.
00:01:48.660And I know democracy chafes against some people, particularly Marxists.
00:01:52.240And as you can see at the bottom of their banner, these are literal Marxists, not figurative ones,
00:01:57.280not people who just talk a little bit left-wing or even light socialism.
00:02:02.460No, these are outright Marxists at these walkouts, standing with Guy Smith right there.
00:02:09.340I mean, he's got no problem with it. He's happy to stand in front of a Marxist banner.
00:02:13.200You know, it's not Photoshopped. See, that's a different picture.
00:02:15.200This is what these guys are really displaying.
00:02:18.640It shouldn't be understated just how extreme Marxists are, and they are extreme.
00:02:22.960Karl Marx came up with a philosophy that killed hundreds of millions of people.
00:02:26.680When you talk about the starvation in the Ukraine, when you talk about what happened in China,
00:02:30.200when you talk about Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, everywhere.
00:02:33.400North Korea, where Marxists get into power, they slaughter millions of people.
00:02:38.900Karl Marx, the death toll from his philosophy put Hitler's to shame.
00:02:43.540I mean, I don't want to understate Hitler's murderous capacities.
00:02:47.580But we do have this weird double standard where it seems it's okay to celebrate communism and Marxism,
00:02:52.920which has killed hundreds of millions of people, yet, well, I'm glad we decry Nazism.
00:02:59.180But guys, they're both odious, murderous, shitty, extreme philosophies, and we shouldn't be giving these Marxists a pass.
00:03:07.080And when we see the Alberta Union of Public Employees' head standing in front of a Marxist banner, literally,
00:03:12.900we've got a problem, and he should be called out for that.
00:03:16.240But no, no, why? Because he is a friggin' Marxist, that's why.
00:03:19.700Now, this is the AUPE's new building, they're building in Edmonton.
00:03:22.920But $50 million or $49 so far and counting, great big giant building.
00:03:28.440There is good money in unionism, especially if you're at the top, you know.
00:03:34.320There's also a lot of corruption in unionism, but boy, they certainly drive nice cars when you get to the top of a union and so on.
00:03:40.620How much do you need to administer unions?
00:03:42.840Well, apparently the AUPE needs a $50 million building to do it, nice, modern-looking, shiny, wow, for a province that's going in austerity for everybody else.
00:03:53.020The unions themselves, not even talking about the members, the unions sure seem to have a lot of extra money.
00:03:58.480Now, let's talk about what they're talking about, what they're worked up about.
00:04:08.360Look, I respect somebody who does room cleaning, laundry, things like that.
00:04:12.420Yeah, they've got to come across some gross body fluids.
00:04:14.540I mean, this picture doesn't quite show the gloves that a hotel worker surely wears, because God knows what you're going to run across on those sheets now and then.
00:04:34.100Outsourcing, this makes perfect sense.
00:04:35.420In fact, Alberta had this battle before.
00:04:38.660Klein did that, and then unions went postal then.
00:04:40.880And then once Notley slithered in with the NDP for one term, we got all these bloated employees back in there charging $30 an hour of full benefits, huge pensions, massive overtime compensation packages, things such as that for simple, regular services.
00:04:56.860Even though it's within the health system, there's still simple services that can be done far more easily with contractors and in a more cost-effective manner, still with treating employees well and making good dollars, but making dollars that fit the role.
00:05:17.400Now, look at what the union, anybody's eaten in a hospital recently, these are union government employees who make you that food, that rubber jello, that flavorless pap they call food.
00:05:31.140Right now, we've got, in fact, tens of thousands of them have laid off, very good food services workers out there in the private sector who will be more than overjoyed to provide better food, more efficiently, at a better price.
00:05:45.620So, yeah, it only makes sense to go there.
00:05:47.880And if we really want to dedicate or limit it, and they are limited.
00:05:50.740You know, some people seem to think there's no end to money.
00:05:53.800We only have so many health care dollars.
00:05:55.900Doctors, and you want them on the front line, you want them on the doctors, you want them on the RNs, you want them on the diagnostic equipment, you want them on the bricks and mortar.
00:06:18.600There's lots of people who will happily do it.
00:06:20.520Speaking of Marxism, you know, it's something we have in Canada, and they get upset when I bring it up all the time with our supply management systems, because I always call it a Soviet-style one.
00:06:30.760The reason I call it that is because that's exactly what it is.
00:06:33.160When the government actually outright controls the amount you can produce, the amount you can sell, you have to actually buy permission from the government in order to make a product and sell it and make a living at it.
00:06:44.880That's what we do with dairy and eggs and chicken, mostly to the benefit of Quebec.
00:06:47.940Well, Alberta jumped in and did it with oil companies.
00:06:51.620When the price went right down in the toilet, they felt, and I still disagree with that, I'm just happy they've lifted the oil production limits.
00:06:57.700They brought supply management into the energy sector so that they could throttle the amount the companies were allowed to produce in order to keep a domestic price higher.
00:07:05.860A ridiculous market interference on the part of a provincial government that's ostensibly conservative, and they are in the most part, I guess they're getting crapped on both sides.
00:07:14.800You know, they try to cut corners or fix things up in the health care system and get these spontaneous wildcat strikes.
00:07:20.940And, yeah, they try to do things for the oil field, and they get crapped on by guys like me who don't feel that the government should interfere with them.
00:07:26.180But, well, welcome to the big chair in government.
00:07:28.780Now, something that hit the news a lot the other week was an affair in Red Deer, you know, the anti-racists.
00:07:37.600I love that they cloaked themselves in anti-racists.
00:07:39.660So that means if you have any problems with us, it means you must be a racist.
00:07:42.460Just like anti-fascist, if you oppose us, you must be a fascist.
00:07:59.180You know, it's like they found this middle ground because Calgary and Edmonton, you know, we've always had our little clusters of extreme lunatics.
00:08:04.680There'd be some true, those white supremacists, all 12 or 15 or 20 of them that they got in Calgary out of, you know, 1.3 million people.
00:08:12.020And then they had this anti-racist action group, which has morphed into this anti-fascist.
00:08:17.300And now Black Lives Matter has been the popular, you know, flavor du jour.
00:08:39.880They were whining that the police weren't protecting them enough, yet these are the same people who were holding signs that say all cops are bastards and that we should abolish the police.
00:08:54.600Oh, guidance counselors, community policing.
00:08:56.820Yeah, we saw community policing in Wisconsin when Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people and blew the bicep off another one.
00:09:02.640That is grassroots, ground-level community policing.
00:09:05.380If that's really what you want, maybe we'll go there.
00:09:07.800I got a feeling that you vegan activists living downtown aren't going to do so well in such a community policing model if you really do come into clashes with other individuals.
00:09:18.800Just like, what's her name, Alyssa Milano had some kid nearby with a pellet gun, so she called the police to come in and help her.
00:09:57.620So the initial thing talking about this being a, you know, just a peaceful protest that had all these racists come in and attack them and destroy it.
00:10:07.360Well, now that the police have reviewed the videos and everything, they've charged the head of that, Taylor McNally, she's the head of the Black Lives Matter group, or the organizer, chief organizer, with assault with a weapon.
00:12:39.180Let's, if you're going to whine about others using that precious logo, let's make sure there's hundreds more of that logo being changed and altered and going out there so we can laugh at you and your ridiculous though expensive organization.
00:13:05.560I think we're going to come down to a final few and we'll judge them because we're having a lot of fun with this and people are enjoying it.
00:13:10.340And there's some real creative things.
00:13:11.300So I'm going to run a quick slideshow of some of the submissions so far.
00:13:14.800Not every one of them, but a lot of them.
00:13:16.860And it's just good for a chuckle and see some of the things.
00:13:20.380So, yeah, here's the CBC logo made up in a collection of turds.
00:14:52.720And, actually, the Western Standard, if you go to westernstandardonline.com, Professor Wagner did write a piece on how the CBC actually literally was soft-selling and covering up for communists decades ago on our behalf.
00:15:05.200Again, these Marxists just slide in on things, whether unions or, well, the union CBC.
00:15:13.480So, the CBC now is looking for another $34 million on top of the, what, $1.6 billion or $1.3 billion or whatever they take in tax dollars per year, plus advertising dollars that they steal from private broadcasters.
00:15:25.180And I say steal because when you're already getting a check for a billion and some dollars and then you go out into the private market and sell advertising, competitors are screwed.
00:15:42.640So, they want even more money because they're having problems.
00:15:45.480And it's a pretty small print there, but the reason they're having problems is because nobody's watching them because their content is biased shit, to be blunt.
00:15:54.920So, those numbers showing on average with your city with CBC News, 12,000 are watching the CBC Evening News.
00:16:04.240That's, like in Calgary, that's less than 1%.
00:16:40.140There's some great Canadian producers and they're producing and we're seeing it in other networks and other stations.
00:16:44.000The CBC, unfortunately, is just putting out, well, it's funny, they broadcast a lot of American productions and then their news is god-awful biased crap.
00:16:52.800You saw that theme all the time showing the CBC's love affair, you know, as people worked on the logos with how the CBC feels about the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:17:12.420I'm fine with that as long as they're private.
00:17:15.300But as soon as you get tax dollars in, if you must have a state broadcaster, and we don't need one, but if we must, it should at least be the one that tries its very hardest to be unbiased.
00:17:28.900And the CBC, unfortunately, is among the most biased of them all.
00:17:32.900Their chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, Rosie Barton.
00:17:36.960I mean, there's that video that went out of her doing her walking interview with Justin Trudeau.
00:17:42.720I mean, it was, the flirting and cooing was brilliant between the two of them.
00:18:16.240Oh, she was just giggling and flirting throughout that interview.
00:18:19.360I mean, a job that would be lost if the CBC was privatized is whoever has to mop under Rosie's chair during a broadcast whenever she has to coo out Trudeau's name.
00:18:31.180I mean, this is just, there she is getting a selfie with her master.
00:18:36.500Speaking of masters, you know, this is something I've got to give the guy credit.
00:18:39.060I mean, Trudeau, for the most part, is an abject moron.
00:18:41.140We saw him dancing around India, embarrassing us and, you know, pulling off black face stunts and all sorts of foolish things.
00:19:05.260Jagmeet Singh said, no, we'll prop you up and let you cover up the corruption that Justin Trudeau has been doing as he funnels money to his family members who are incompetent and making a living on their own.
00:19:15.440Yes, I'm talking about Margaret and his brother.
00:19:18.240Trust fund people who just rely on the earnings of others.
00:19:21.360And, but again, hey, there was a pissing match in Parliament.
00:21:13.060Us peons down here who have to mask up, who are seeing our businesses closed, who are suffering, haven't seen loved ones, the ones who are following the rules, staying out of large groups, need leadership.
00:21:24.320We need to see these fuckers actually walking the walk if they're going to tell us what to do.
00:21:31.740When you see them hypocritically pulling that crap, they should be thrown out of office.
00:21:38.300That does show back into those Soviet days where, oh, we're going to starve the Ukrainians to live on a few potatoes a day, but the Politburo is driving Mercedes on the way into work.
00:22:14.500We'll also have our more newsy broadcast on Wednesday, and we're going to be doing Saskatchewan election coverage tonight for those who are watching this on the Monday night.
00:22:24.740And I will see you all on one of those future broadcasts.