DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this letter do not represent Dabbler.ca but that of the individual. Dabbler.ca has no beef with C.U.P.E. but Morten has. This is his personal rant.

I write this letter in frustration. Not because you are on strike – every worker is entitled to stand up for their rights – but because you are lashing out at people that have nothing to do with your situation. I am the council president of a building with 220 units situated in Metrotown. Not one of my over 500 neighbors votes in Vancouver elections and none of them have any say in your labour dispute. Yet they are effected by your strike. Because of your indiscriminate shutdown of the waste transfer stations, our building is drowning in a mountain of garbage. And since we are not involved in your labour dispute, we can do nothing to fix the situation. You are holding our building and many others with it hostage even though we are irrelevant to your counterpart – the City of Vancouver.

By blocking the transfer stations, you are making enemies of people who would otherwise support you wholeheartedly. What you are doing to the people who live in municipalities adjacent to Vancouver is wrong if not immoral. You have no right to impinge on our services – we didn’t create your problem and we can’t fix it. By blocking our garbage disposal, you are forcing people like myself to clean up the mess while you claim the throne and become King of the Hill of Putrid Waste.

Take a long hard look at whom you are punishing here. Right now, you are acting like the kid who pours milk in his classmate’s bag because his mom didn’t pack the right thing for lunch. Grow up!

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Strata Council President