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Union wants job back for drunk, armed, threatening worker
Last Updated Fri Nov 28 23:11:47 2003
MONCTON-- The union representing a Moncton city employee who came to work drunk, armed with a shotgun and looking for his supervisors is trying to get his job back.
George Pavlovszky is in jail after a conviction on a weapons charge following the April 10 incident. And he lost his job.
No one was hurt and he was quickly subdued.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has filed a grievance to have him reinstated.
It has no legal obligation to fight the case but "Mr. Pavlovszky paid the ultimate price in the workplace by being dismissed," said CUPE representative Susan Barton.
The city will fight, said spokesman Steven MacKinnon.
"Clearly in society I think we have to establish some thresholds of behavior. I would submit that Mr. Pavlovszky's behavior crossed that threshold and by quite a significant amount."
None of Pavlovszky's co-workers would talk, but MacKinnon says they don't want him back.
Written by CBC News Online staff
Copyright © 2002 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved

This article pretty much sums up my absolute disgust for most elements of labour and the political left. It's hilarious how the majority of the people I have met in my life that have espoused the beliefs of the left do things like what the union above is doing - things that are clearly wrong, insane, or both. They preach and preach about how their way is the only way to local, national, and global salvation, all the while doing things that are not only wrong, but at the same time completely against what they claim to stand for.

Comments[2] Posted on November 28, 2003 11:50:14 CST PM

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Well if we are going to get into the idea of good versus evil lets get started than. I'd like to point out that the supervisors at George place of employment gave a job that most certainly belonged to George to some little snot because of who he knew. Yes that seems very far to me. Work hard for that promotion and just watch it get handed off to someone who has hardly qualified! George was not looking for his job back when he returned to work he wanted his promotion that he deserved. I sure as hell would be pissed if I didn't get a raise that was rightly mine. No I wouldn't go to work drunk with guns but I would be a raging ball of foul language. You have to look at it from others point of view. He most likely sat on the anger of being passed over for a few days, and had a few drink. We all know that people don't generally right thesis while they are drunk, they kill people in their cars or get into bar fights. Hopefully Ying and Yang will find the supervisors and give them a good passing over. If they had done the right thing none of this would have happened now would it?

Comment from Stuck with a Stupid Supervisor on August 23, 2005 11:52:38 CST AM

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I normally wouldn't approve posts like the above, which are both anonymous and ignorant, but I felt I had to just to demonstrate how stupid some people can be.

Looking back at my earlier post, I feel bad about certain choices I made in terms of language and hasty generalizations, but at least what I wrote was in English and had some semblance of thought behind it.

I mean, seriously: "if [they] had done the right thing none of this would have happened"? Are you fucking joking?

Comment from Derek Burt on August 23, 2005 4:29:18 CST PM

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