All We Want Is The Opportunity.
This is to all the Greedy Corporations,CEO'S that treat people like shit. We are the hard working taxpayer and the backbone of a strong economy,NOT YOU !! The greed not only have destroyed lives but also have put the economy in the state that it is in now.
Organized Crime or Organized Labor
Seems to be very true,is this the sign of the times to come,more organized crime with the depletion of organized labour. Organized crime does seem easier to join.
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Gang violence appears to be on the rise in B.C. as gangs war over control of the lucrative drug trade, but there are few places where the increase has been more severe than in Prince George.
The northern forestry community has been plagued by a year of brawls, shootings, reports of torture and several murders as rival groups brazenly fight among themselves.
In late summer, a 19-year-old man was seriously injured in drive-by shooting in Prince George, 500 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
A few weeks later, a young couple believed to be connected to the drug trade - including a 19-year-old woman - were found shot to death.
Although the victims were gang members, Mayor Dan Rogers says every violent act ripples into the wider community.
"There are innocent victims all the time," says Rogers, recently elected as mayor after 12 years on city council.
"There are parents, there are relatives. It's just tragic."
While things have quieted since the grisly October slayings, the head of the RCMP's local gang unit says 2008 was the worst year he has ever seen.
"We never used to have this kind of violence in Prince George," says Sgt. Raj Sidhu, who's been with the Mounties there for 13 years. "It's pretty brutal what's happening."
The violence in the city follows a pattern established elsewhere in B.C.
A new gang crops up, a turf war breaks out, and eventually the violence ends when one group is either beaten down by rivals or rounded up by police.
The cycle has been a source of constant frustration for police forces combating violence among B.C.'s 129 identified gangs.
"There's always peaks and valleys, and that seems to just repeat itself," says Supt. Dan Malo, head of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force.
"We've certainly had an increase in gang-related murders (in 2008), but while it keeps moving around, it really becomes the same."
For example, the RCMP homicide team for the Lower Mainland - excluding Vancouver and Delta - says there were about 20 homicides connected to drugs and organized crime this year, compared with about 14 in 2007, and 20 in 2006. Gang-related killings tend to rise and fall with the overall homicide rate, the Mounties say.
Violence increases when gangs try to expand their influence into new areas, which is what appears to be happening in Prince George.
The latest spate of attacks in that city is related to a turf war between the Independent Soldiers, who appeared two years ago and have ties to a gang in Vancouver, and a smaller, unnamed group that arrived about a year ago.
While things have been quiet in the past couple of months, the head of the Prince George gang unit predicts the calm will be short-lived.
"I don't know for how long - it's always revenge and the greed to take over the drug trade," says Sidhu. "There's always that vacuum. You take out one group and someone else wants to come in."
Malo, while seeming resigned to the fact that gangs will be a perpetual problem in the province, says there remains reason to be hopeful.
He says the force has dramatically changed its tactics in recent years, starting with the formation of the integrated task force in 2005, followed by a so-called violence suppression team two years later.
The suppression team consists of several dozen uniformed officers who track gang members and try to intervene when violence erupts, or prevent it from happening in the first place.
The task force is also reaching out to future gang members with a provincewide initiative targeting at-risk youth through community involvement and education.
And there have been successes in actual enforcement.
A few weeks ago, the RCMP arrested nine people in Surrey and laid 26 charges related to drugs and weapons. It was part of a year-long investigation that the force held up as evidence its efforts were working.
"We've seen a tremendous amount of violence in the past couple of years, and hopefully we're going to be able to suppress that for a period of time," Malo says.
"Do I see that in the next two months? Maybe not. Do I see that in the next year or two? I definitely do."
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Gang violence appears to be on the rise in B.C. as gangs war over control of the lucrative drug trade, but there are few places where the increase has been more severe than in Prince George.
The northern forestry community has been plagued by a year of brawls, shootings, reports of torture and several murders as rival groups brazenly fight among themselves.
In late summer, a 19-year-old man was seriously injured in drive-by shooting in Prince George, 500 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
A few weeks later, a young couple believed to be connected to the drug trade - including a 19-year-old woman - were found shot to death.
Although the victims were gang members, Mayor Dan Rogers says every violent act ripples into the wider community.
"There are innocent victims all the time," says Rogers, recently elected as mayor after 12 years on city council.
"There are parents, there are relatives. It's just tragic."
While things have quieted since the grisly October slayings, the head of the RCMP's local gang unit says 2008 was the worst year he has ever seen.
"We never used to have this kind of violence in Prince George," says Sgt. Raj Sidhu, who's been with the Mounties there for 13 years. "It's pretty brutal what's happening."
The violence in the city follows a pattern established elsewhere in B.C.
A new gang crops up, a turf war breaks out, and eventually the violence ends when one group is either beaten down by rivals or rounded up by police.
The cycle has been a source of constant frustration for police forces combating violence among B.C.'s 129 identified gangs.
"There's always peaks and valleys, and that seems to just repeat itself," says Supt. Dan Malo, head of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force.
"We've certainly had an increase in gang-related murders (in 2008), but while it keeps moving around, it really becomes the same."
For example, the RCMP homicide team for the Lower Mainland - excluding Vancouver and Delta - says there were about 20 homicides connected to drugs and organized crime this year, compared with about 14 in 2007, and 20 in 2006. Gang-related killings tend to rise and fall with the overall homicide rate, the Mounties say.
Violence increases when gangs try to expand their influence into new areas, which is what appears to be happening in Prince George.
The latest spate of attacks in that city is related to a turf war between the Independent Soldiers, who appeared two years ago and have ties to a gang in Vancouver, and a smaller, unnamed group that arrived about a year ago.
While things have been quiet in the past couple of months, the head of the Prince George gang unit predicts the calm will be short-lived.
"I don't know for how long - it's always revenge and the greed to take over the drug trade," says Sidhu. "There's always that vacuum. You take out one group and someone else wants to come in."
Malo, while seeming resigned to the fact that gangs will be a perpetual problem in the province, says there remains reason to be hopeful.
He says the force has dramatically changed its tactics in recent years, starting with the formation of the integrated task force in 2005, followed by a so-called violence suppression team two years later.
The suppression team consists of several dozen uniformed officers who track gang members and try to intervene when violence erupts, or prevent it from happening in the first place.
The task force is also reaching out to future gang members with a provincewide initiative targeting at-risk youth through community involvement and education.
And there have been successes in actual enforcement.
A few weeks ago, the RCMP arrested nine people in Surrey and laid 26 charges related to drugs and weapons. It was part of a year-long investigation that the force held up as evidence its efforts were working.
"We've seen a tremendous amount of violence in the past couple of years, and hopefully we're going to be able to suppress that for a period of time," Malo says.
"Do I see that in the next two months? Maybe not. Do I see that in the next year or two? I definitely do."
Where's The Bottom?
Volatile with no end insight. Different experts have different opinions about the financial crisis.If you ask me the foundation is still crumbling. The loss of jobs continues and will continue having a domino effect. Most say the cause was with the housing crisis. But if you look beyond that it started years before with a continuation of good paying jobs that are lost forever.
Pretty much mostly union jobs that where being shipped overseas, not because the corporations weren't making profits, it was all in the name of GREED. The distribution of huge CEO paychecks where nothing short of pathetic. The wealth was spread around the top while the foundation was being ignored.
Even if you look back only a decade ago you can still recall how the hard working taxpayers complaints how the wages were not keeping up with the cost of living, landed on deaf ears of greedy Corporations and Governments alike. Taxpayers getting gouged from everything from the pumps to the TV.
When there was good paying jobs with some long term security it was easier to recover from most of the debt taxpayers would create for themselves, whether it was just a credit card debt or other loans. You could actually bare down and focus on paying them off before buying something else. Any type of long term debt needs some type of long term decent employment, not just your Wal Mart job.
You can have a Wal Mart on every street corner and that just won't make the cut. The way it has been for years having both spouses in a house hold to make ends meet has now grown to the point where you need other family members contributing also. So I guess if you had 5 or 6 members of one family all working at places like Wal Marts etc you might be alright. Guess you will have to get the kids a job instead of sending them to school.
Although far from over we can only hope to see the greedy rats on Wall ST go to jail and have to sell all the assets that they ripped off of the hard working taxpayers. Its surprising enough people are not out there with pitch forks. Now we are afraid to spend,which also can result with further job loses.
The only way to stop the bleeding is with the jobs that where taken away. Unfortunately its up to the greed that caused this and can only be fixed by the same people. Scarey thought.
Corporate Greed
Those greedy SOB's forgot that their companies where built on the backs of the hard working taxpayers. Now the taxpayers have to pay to rebuild them. So who's going to jail from the financial crisis and who's walking away rich? Maybe they should just let the whole thing crumble to bring the greedy down to our level.
Corporations should watch this video as they are bullies themselves. In the corporate world all they learn is How They Can Maximize Profits At All Costs. They have no morels or values with a total disregard for workers.If you can actually watch this without coming to tears or at least almost, then you aren't human.
Although this is just a video with teens and a few adults,corporations should have videos like this to watch on a regular bases.Then they can see if they are at all human. Maybe they don't even realize what they are doing and how they have treated people over the years.(Ha Ha). The assault on the middle class continues to grow just to maximize profits. I hope I live long enough to see the day corporate greed blows up in their faces.
With more job losses out here in west with the forest industry and job losses out east in with the autoworkers,there seems to be no end in site. They have lots of excuses and putting the blame on the state of the economy. They don't seem to mention how much of it is about stomping on unions.
Just in BC alone the marijuana grow operations employ more people than some of our main industries,with an estimated over 100,000 full and part time employees. Now that is just what they estimate but there is no way of really knowing as of yet. It just gives you an idea on how fast it has grown and how its been neglected over the years.Yes,Organized crime is on the rise,with other gangs moving in to try and have a piece of the drug trade. Corporate greed in the drug trade is still about the same thing.....more money for the shareholders.
Corporations should watch this video as they are bullies themselves. In the corporate world all they learn is How They Can Maximize Profits At All Costs. They have no morels or values with a total disregard for workers.If you can actually watch this without coming to tears or at least almost, then you aren't human.
Although this is just a video with teens and a few adults,corporations should have videos like this to watch on a regular bases.Then they can see if they are at all human. Maybe they don't even realize what they are doing and how they have treated people over the years.(Ha Ha). The assault on the middle class continues to grow just to maximize profits. I hope I live long enough to see the day corporate greed blows up in their faces.
With more job losses out here in west with the forest industry and job losses out east in with the autoworkers,there seems to be no end in site. They have lots of excuses and putting the blame on the state of the economy. They don't seem to mention how much of it is about stomping on unions.
Just in BC alone the marijuana grow operations employ more people than some of our main industries,with an estimated over 100,000 full and part time employees. Now that is just what they estimate but there is no way of really knowing as of yet. It just gives you an idea on how fast it has grown and how its been neglected over the years.Yes,Organized crime is on the rise,with other gangs moving in to try and have a piece of the drug trade. Corporate greed in the drug trade is still about the same thing.....more money for the shareholders.
Stop Union Busting!
Things That Are Happening Now Around The World
IUF News
Reality and Spin: Davos, LBOs and Job Destruction
Pakistan
Israel
Too many union jobs have already been lost forever. Unions sets standards in the workforce.The same thing is happening in Canada as it is in the United States more than ever before, the depletion of the middle class from the loss of union jobs.Governments supporting the big corporations instead of the hard working taxpayer.
stopunionbusting@gmail.com
IUF News
Reality and Spin: Davos, LBOs and Job Destruction
Pakistan
Israel
Too many union jobs have already been lost forever. Unions sets standards in the workforce.The same thing is happening in Canada as it is in the United States more than ever before, the depletion of the middle class from the loss of union jobs.Governments supporting the big corporations instead of the hard working taxpayer.
stopunionbusting@gmail.com
"In Solidarity"
Remember a trade union is suppose to represent those employees who want a collective bargaining representation with their employers over terms of employment.So a union should not claim the right to represent employees who do not want collective bargaining representation,or conduct activities that have nothing to do with terms of employment(e.g. political activities),they should try to deal with individual employers instead of an industry as a whole.Although the industry is weaker when divided,each should respect one's decision on wanting to unionize or not.Strength in numbers.
Either way people still should be treated with the same respect and dignity to be more productive for companies than ever before.The goal for corporations should be focused on customer relations and not just pure profits.
Seems corporations and governments like the use of a bureaucratic model,I think they like that when the employees become alienated,hostile,underutilized,frustrated and overstressed.Although you would think to be a truly successful organization,you need to bring the employees on board and create one unified team of employees and management that are aligned around the same customer-focused mission.
Take a different kind of view of the employees,and see them as a critical assets to the success of your company.You need to see them as important and highly valued.You need to see them as people,real human beings whose attitudes and feelings
of self worth are critical to your success.When you see the non-managerial employees in this way,it should become obvious that they are worth investing time and energy in,instead of the bureaucratic way to attempt to control people with rules,and often those rules get in the way of productivity.To reduce or eliminate the negative effects of bureaucracy,you’ll need the help and support of the employees who are not in management.Seems when ever cuts are made to reduce costs for what ever reason,the cuts come from the workers on the front line.Then another Ceo is added or gets a big raise and more work is added to the already shortened front line worker who is suppose to keep the same productivity as before.Companies should realize that if all their high priced Ceo's never showed up for work one day,things would still function as normal.But what would happen if all of a sudden the workers didn't show up for work......total kao's.Just to look at it in a different perspective.
So you would think to continue improvement of quality,service,or both.
Once your front line worker understands and believes that you want to treat them with a bit of respect you will discover that they will be your strongest supporters.
The positive reactions will filter throughout the company and can only be beneficial for all.If your people are unionized,and the union management is still in the dark ages,then you will likely get some resistance from the union management.
Once they understand that you are serious,with certain changes and you really want to achieve quality to the standards or services that produces customer satisfaction, they’ll get the message to the union that what you are doing is a positive step forward.Yeah it all sounds so simple except when greed gets in the way,trying to find that basic idea,to move away from bureaucracy and more toward quality and customer satisfaction seems almost impossible.
The big corporations like the Walmarts,Coco Cola etc.like the "maximize profits at all costs" moto.
Their not into turning any idea that would follow over to the worker to invent any kind of training solution.If there is a lot of misunderstanding and mistrust between your management and your workers,management must wise up and realize that profit is a by product of quality products or customer satisfaction.You don’t achieve quality or service by managing profits.You achieve quality or service by managing quality or service.
What Walmart has accomplished is pretty amazing to say the least.So why would they ever change their ways? They already make more money than most countries.You could think that maybe they would have a bit more pride,being in a position where they can create good steady employment with benefits and a brighter future for workers.Imagine how that would filter through society itself,everyone wins.Could Walmart ever go broke if that happened.....highly unlikely.Even if Walmart only made half the profits they do now would still be hard to comprehend and they would never go broke.Increasingly our economy is really based on service.Even if you’re not serving the customer,you’re probably serving someone who is.The governments and corporations like all the red tape BS of bureaucracy,it shows they are not really committed and can still have control to change the rules as they go for their benefit if need be.We can only imagine how things would be if all employees of a Walmart or Coco Cola corporation walked off the job and left their duties for the
over priced Ceo's,then they would start to earn their money for a change, it would look good on them.
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