The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), Canada’s largest construction union, is urging the McGuinty government to halt wiping out tens of thousands of jobs in Ontario horse racing industry at least until all the facts are known.
Through a release posted on RacingFuture.ca, LIUNA reccomends that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to order a stop to withdrawing slot machines from the province’s racetracks and threatening the future of tens of thousands of jobs in the horse racing and breeding industry until a full cost-benefit analysis of the move has been carried out and made public.
“Rural Ontario is a vital part of Ontario’s economic infrastructure – you can’t have prosperity in the cities if the government needlessly undermines the already fragile rural economy,” said Joseph Mancinelli, LIUNA’s International Vice President and Regional Manager for Central and Eastern Canada. The Region has more than 75,000 members.
“If the McGuinty government goes ahead with ending the successful 14-year partnership with the industry, it will be harming the lives and livelihoods of 55,000 hard working people involved in operating small farms, breeding, training, feeding, boarding, grooming, transporting and caring for the health of horses and working at the racetracks,” said Mancinelli.
“We strongly feel that before anything so drastic is allowed to happen, the people affected and the public are entitled to full transparency. The government should find out and fully share all the facts and figures – what the human and economic impact will be, how net government revenues will be impacted by the loss of all this economic activity, and how the government is planning to replace the jobs of the tens of thousands of people who will be thrown out of work,” Mancinelli said.
LIUNA’s more than half a million members across North America work in every aspect of the construction industry including residential and commercial building construction, sewer and watermain, road construction, bridge building, pipelines, railroads and utilities to name a few. LIUNA members also work in many types of factories and processing plants, stores, offices, hotels, restaurants, offices and the public sector.
Our voice is getting
Our voice is getting louder!!! Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!
Not very good at math Dwight
Not very good at math Dwight !
In Marty's article he stated that 60,000 was false,well add another 75,000 from LIUNA and the numbers from CAW . It won't be long getting to a half million. Put that in your calculator Dwight and see how you like us now .....
Keep up the fight everyone.... as the line in the country song goes ... " YOUV"E GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING or YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING "
Still don't understand why
Still don't understand why the Federal government isn't asking about their loss of revenue from the Goods And Service tax. Surely that will also be felt. It's not just the 60,000 that will be affected...all taxpayers of Ontario will feel the repercussions of this lack of vision by the Ontario Liberals. Good to have some strong support out there.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, CAW AND
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, CAW AND LIUNA, for your support in this conflict that is affecting thousands of workers and suppliers in the racing industry, imagine thousand s of these people out of work and on un-employment insurance or well- fare the economic impact it will have on the province, the gouvernment can not find jobs for the people on un-emploment know, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE (the gouvernment)TRYING TO KID???
Let's get some Thankyou's
Let's get some Thankyou's sent to the Union folks
I am an avid race fan and I
I am an avid race fan and I am so happy I can bet in Quebec again with the opening of the parlors- but if we are trying to gain public support, aligning ourselves with the unions is a very surefire way of turning off the general hard working middle class individual.
Now maybe with the voice of
Now maybe with the voice of CAW and LIUNA behind the Horse Racing Industry of Ontario, our voice will be heard. At least with strength in numbers, we can make the public more aware of what the Government is doing to our industry, and although Urbanites in Ontario think it doesn't or won't affect them, we can wake them up to the fact that the shortfall of net revenue caused by the loss of the 1.1 billion a year from the SAR will have to come from somewhere else if the Liberal Gov't is to prevent a growing deficit. That shortfall will come from either program cuts or INCREASED TAXES. Now who does it affect?