Non-union employees shouldn’t be displaced

Was Doug Workman running for election in Iqaluit West as an individual or as a representative of the Nunavut Employees Union?

I don’t think all union members agreed to have their money finance his campaign. After the controversy he caused during the municipal strike, with his tactics, I can’t believe he ran at all.

Is it a coincidence that the government jobs he would have so willingly eradicated were non-union positions?

The NEU was involved in the negotiations and in the creation of the government’s organizational charts before Nunavut was formed.

Yet now they are unhappy with their input. Granted, there have been some self-indulgent, ineffective individuals in the outgoing government, but getting rid of non-union members is ridiculous.

The problems begin with the lack of talented Nunavummiut becoming politically active, not upper management organization.

The number of professional Inuit is low due to the difficulty that naturally passive Inuit have in conforming to the aggressive methods of a European-based culture. Inuit just don’t want to be fully indoctrinated in Western culture and are struggling to find a balance.

To have an MLA representing a communist idea in our native government would just go against the grain of Inuit culture.

With only a few years left in the mandate for Inuit self-government, the focus should be on finding the balance between cultures and producing enough competent graduates to benefit all Nunavummiut, not just the paying members of an overly rich union organization.

(Name withheld by request)
Iqaluit