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Topic: If you're dead and there's a cemetery strike, is anyone inconvenienced?
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Doug
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Babbler # 44
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posted 25 July 2008 02:23 PM
This situation is probably the best argument for anti-scab legislation I've seen. Thought your job was to sell caskets? Today you're burying them. quote:
Office clerks and salespeople took over the graveyard shift at several cemeteries across the region yesterday to make sure no caskets were left unburied when gravediggers hit the picket lines.Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries rolled out its backup plan after 230 unionized workers at nine properties from Brampton to Oshawa walked off the job Wednesday night.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/467120
From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Apr 2001
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aka Mycroft
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Babbler # 6640
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posted 25 July 2008 02:51 PM
I think only the groundspeople are unionized. Sorry, I have to read this part again: quote:
Office clerks and salespeople took over the graveyard shift at several cemeteries across the region yesterday to make sure no caskets were left unburied when gravediggers hit the picket lines.
Question. If you work in a cemetery isn't it *always* the graveyard shift?
From: Toronto | Registered: Aug 2004
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M. Spector
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Babbler # 8273
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posted 25 July 2008 06:14 PM
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If you are looking for a rewarding career with a fast-paced and growing company that is a market leader, you should definitely consider Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and a great place to work.Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries is committed to helping families of all faiths, traditions and cultures create meaning around the death experience. We have been providing quality customer care to families in the Greater Toronto Area for 178 years, and today, with ten cemeteries, six crematoria and 12 mausolea, all serving the distinct needs of the communities in which they are located, our name sets a standard: a gold standard. Our success is a result of our dedicated team of professional employees who are committed to providing new and innovative products and services within the death care industry. - Source
These fat cats who daily get multi-thousands of dollars from the Toronto elite for every wealthy, aging boomer who passes away won't even pay their groundskeepers and gravediggers a decent wage or stop exposing them to toxic pesticides.They pay part-time wages (as low as $11 an hour) and no benefits instead of hiring full-time workers. And when their contract was about to run out on July 4, management began training non-unionized employees to scab for them. This is a small, weak union in a low-wage sector of the economy, up against a wealthy, highly profitable business that is out to break them. But don't let me be a party pooper. Carry on with the yuk-fest.
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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Polly Brandybuck
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Babbler # 7732
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posted 26 July 2008 06:23 PM
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Originally posted by 'lance:
....or at least hope to boycott these businesses as long as possible.
Ha, ya I hope I get to do that too. However, should I die, I don't want any resource wasting space taker upper spot in a golf course green cemetary to commemorate the fact that I once breathed and then I didn't anymore. Ashes make sense - but don't send them home with the relatives - just chuck them out or use them in pottery or compost or something. Mortal remains are just bits and pieces of skin and bone, and really just another reminder of how sad you were when (insert name of loved one) died. A morbid reminder that you get to be heartbroken and lonely, and when you get over the lonely, it's a reminder that you should feel damn guilty over getting over the lonely. An inner nagging that hits you whenever you drive on past the cemetary where you once vowed to make sure (insert the same damn name) never went without fresh flowers. Oops, thread drift.
From: To Infinity...and beyond! | Registered: Dec 2004
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'lance
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Babbler # 1064
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posted 26 July 2008 07:04 PM
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Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
Ha, ya I hope I get to do that too. However, should I die...
(emphasis added)Now, I'm not a doctor, philosopher or theologian, and no more than averagely morbid, but... sooner or later, I guarantee it. On the other hand -- if you work out how to avoid it altogether, and still maintain moderately good health with it (it's a terrible tale, the story of the Sibyl), I hope you'll clue us in. Immortality might be dreadful after all, but one would like the option. Even Jesus wanted just a little more time, to quote the great Time Waits. (thread drift, schmead drift) [ 26 July 2008: Message edited by: 'lance ]
From: that enchanted place on the top of the Forest | Registered: Jul 2001
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 27 July 2008 04:58 AM
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Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
Hmm, okay, when I die then, but I really shouldn't..not yet. I have parking tickets to pay.
Dude, that's the best reason TO die! I'm hoping that, if I decide not to declare bankruptcy once my student loans are 10 years old (five years from now!) that I'll have them for the next half century and die owing those bastards money. Actually, come to think of it, since I have no savings and only an insurance policy (which they can't touch since it's in the name of a beneficiary), if I'm ever diagnosed with a terminal illness, I'll see if I can't get a few credit cards to rack up before I croak, too. My last big fuck you to the corporate world. 
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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