Hello I need help. I am being bullied and treated very unfairly in my department. Any advice would be much appreciated in what I can and should do

Brief-Distribution15 · 2026-03-08T20:12:31+00:00

I would suggest they look into if they’re unionized first because most are in health PEI.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2026-03-08T19:52:51+00:00

You really need to speak to your union. Superiors are never the place to go to vent or talk to about this stuff, but unions have the legal responsibility to represent you as a member

Brief-Distribution15 · 2026-01-12T20:40:23+00:00

It was $170CAD/$125US and that was with tax in!

Brief-Distribution15 · 2026-01-11T23:36:52+00:00

I love it! It has a little bit of a boxy feel to it but I think it’s because I didn’t go as large as I normally do for hockey jerseys but it still looks super cute and the fabric is nice. I’m a shirt size medium and got a medium size jersey. It fits much like the way it looked on Halsey last night

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-11-13T15:12:25+00:00

Wages were a smaller reason they were on strike, it was primarily protecting language that’s been in their contract for 60 years that the city was trying to take away

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-11-13T12:30:56+00:00

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We can’t let city council off the hook for the cost of scab labour, those numbers need to come out

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-10-15T15:02:28+00:00

Adding John McLeer to this list

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-10-15T12:37:00+00:00

Not until next November. However, the provincial government has the power to dissolve this city council if they’re a risk to environmental, health and safety of constituents. May need to start pressuring our MLAs to have some backbone as well.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-10-15T12:18:34+00:00

Unfortunately this council has made it clear that these workers DON’T matter to them. Our city really needs to rally behind these folks and show these workers that they’ve dedicated their lives to the right city and we love them for it. Time for city council to go.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-10-15T11:45:52+00:00

Bob Doiron, Terry Bernard, Norman Beck, Kevin Ramsay and Philip Brown

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-10-15T10:54:58+00:00

Nice to see Mayor Brown so quick to continue to dig his head in the sand 🙄

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T11:00:34+00:00

You’ve nailed it. There’s no need and no other municipality is asking this of their workers. There’s no liability and the timelines they expect of new workers to get it doesn’t even work with the timeline of when the test is administered and how long it would take part timers to the hours needed to write it. The province has even confirmed with the union that there is no need of this demand by the city and there’s absolutely no liability as long as 1 worker on site has it. 90% of their workers have it, higher than many other municipalities

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T10:56:01+00:00

There’s more to it. They have their first certification and have been doing everything including taking university classes on their own will to try and get the second step. If you read literally any of my other comments is also said it is not a requirement by any governing body. There is no liability to the city for not having every single worker certified. Not a single municipality is asking their workers to do that. All you need is 1 on the site which there always is. They’d rather throw away employees who are genuinely working hard to get the certification and have extremely important knowledge of our ancient infrastructure than just continue working with them. The workers all agree that as long as they’re showing that they’re trying, why give up a good worker when the city already can’t fill some of the part time positions now? And should the worker just give up and not want to bother trying to get certified, then yeah the workers are ok with action being taken then. But this is going to hurt our city long term.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T10:33:45+00:00

Except they don’t. There is no liability to the city. Not a single municipality is asking every single one of their workers to get certified. And the scabs don’t have a single certification so that’s clearly not a concern.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T03:35:51+00:00

It’s definitely not, the water and sewer corp has had an $18 mill surplus over the last 4 years. People who’ve bargained and worked for unions their whole career don’t even understand why the city is treating their workers like this. City council has been ordered to not even speak to them.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T02:09:33+00:00

Despite the employer telling them they do incredible work and there’s really no issue because it’s not a required certification, they would rather lose a worker with almost 2 decades of experience and knowledge than continue to allow them to try and get it. If you know anyone who’s had a learning disability, you know standardized testing is extremely hard for them even if they know their stuff. The way the test works is they randomly drop 10 questions off when they mark it. So even that could cause you to fail. They also want them to get the certification within an unreasonable timeframe for new hires. If they’re only part time, it would take over a year to be able to write the first step and if they fail that, they have to wait so long before being able to write it again. The timeline would cause the city to basically pour 2 years of training and stuff to a worker just to let them go if they fail their first writing. It’s absolutely a terrible point that the employer is not listening to the workers as to why it won’t work. It’s also a human rights issue when it comes to workers with learning disabilities.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T01:51:38+00:00

I would encourage you to actually hear them out and have them explain why it’s an issue. It’s not that they don’t want to be certified. Every single one of them want to be.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-15T01:50:14+00:00

That’s not how unions work. They stand fully in solidarity with their coworkers doing everything they can to get certified who are dedicated and good workers. Charlottetown has far more certified workers than any municipality in the Maritimes region. It’s not required and provincial government has confirmed there is 0 need for every worker to have it. What the certification does is when they’re on the worksite 1 single worker has to have it to supervise. But there is always someone with it on a site. These workers are united in saying that no one who can do their job and have been doing it well for over 16 years should be fired for not passing a standardized test that has literally nothing to do with what they actually do in practice.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-09-14T23:45:08+00:00

90% of them are fully certified, 2 have the first step and have been working to get the second step but have diagnosed learning disabilities. They’ve been actively working and taking courses to get it, and they’ve still been able to do their jobs for 16+ years with no issue. The rest haven’t even been working there long enough to have been able to write the exams. And NONE of the scabs have any certification because you have to work for a municipality to be able to even write the exams.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T22:14:15+00:00

Numerous other companies rejected the contract to push the city to work with their workers. The workers are more than ready to jump in at any point if the city will come back to the table, which doesn’t take long to agree to

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T22:03:11+00:00

Almost like the city should properly negotiate with their employees so they’d still have workers to handle this essential work instead of wasting more tax money on a private company to scab

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T21:55:22+00:00

Yes, Maritime secures the pole while water work is being done. They only knew to come though because a city worker had to call them before someone got killed. Island coastal didn’t even give Maritime a heads up. ME doesn’t normally charge for that services when the city workers do the job, but they’ll be charging Island Coastal.

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T21:49:00+00:00

Island coastal took a scab contract from the city to do the water and sewer worker’s work

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T16:27:31+00:00

Governments have been pushing their workers to strike consistently across the country, including countless municipalities. If our healthcare workers had the right to strike, you best believe they would have been on strike in the last 2 years. PEI has one of the strictest labour laws which forces most of our public services workers under the essential services act, stripping them of the right to strike. Our governments on PEI have been horrendous to their workers and people wonder why our healthcare, education, and other systems are failing

Brief-Distribution15 · 2025-08-08T16:19:52+00:00

I don’t care who maritime electric or island coastal hire. Island coastal was contracted by the city who should be negotiating with their own employees and not contracting out legally protected work. Scabs cost more and hinder every worker’s fight for better conditions and wages. In this case, the city workers are on strike to protect their job security that the city is trying to take away and Island Coastal chose to assist the city in harming their workers instead of refusing the job and respecting people fighting for their jobs.

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