If you hold an election that is flawed by irregularities, people tend to lose faith in the result. So it is with a union vote.
It doesn’t appear the union met that high bar. The issue is not that only 35 per cent voted for such an important strike. In this country, we’ve elected prime ministers with similar numbers. In 2004, Paul Martin was elected with 36.7 per cent and Stephen Harper won in 2006 with 36 per cent. If we can elect the leaders of our country with 36 per cent of the vote, we can accept a nationwide strike being called with a 35-per-cent vote.
PSAC president Chris Aylward naturally disagreed with the board’s findings. PSAC argued that it communicated the change to members and purchased “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of online advertising that linked to pages mentioning the new deadline. But the board was not impressed. It said a lot of the information was not easily accessible.Article content
“The determination of accurate balloting dates should not be turned into something akin to a scavenger hunt, in which only those who are eagle-eyed enough to notice small, unannounced changes buried in emails have the information necessary to secure their right to vote,” it said. In other words, if you are a union holding an important strike vote, you must be open and transparent about it.
PSAC called a strike at a tough time for most Canadians, and is having difficulty garnering public support. The union has not done itself any favour with the way it handled the strike vote.Recommended from Editorial
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