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Well, at least one person is upset. Just who that is we don't know. But he/she sent us a typed note attached to a copy of a letter from city administrator George Duncan. The tipster complains that Duncan is interfering in internal union business via the letter.
According to Duncan's Oct. 27 letter, the big cheese was choked that union reps - in this case the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 718 - had apparently asked their members not to partake in department "strategic teams." Not fair, says The Dunkster. Those teams were set up because an employee survey asked for them and now the union wants to pull its members out of the exercise. Union reps are "paranoid" about management's intents and are either "ill-informed or deliberately misleading the staff," Duncan wrote.
You'd bet that would set the union reps on fire. Apparently, it hasn't. Calls from The Review haven't been returned, suggesting to us that, to them at least, the letter is no biggie.
But to be fair, maybe the union is wary about talking with the media and inflaming already damaged relations. Or maybe they're worried about messing with Duncan who has shed some weight recently and is looking rather beefy. He's looking so buff one wonders whether he's gunning for a cameo on American Gladiators.
***Anyone out there missing a leg? No, that's no typo. It's true. Local Mounties found a prosthetic leg. It was spotted near the corner of Francis Road and Schaefer Gate (just west of No. 3 Road). Anyone missing it can claim it at the RCMP detachment between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday to Friday.
***Got some gossip? Share it with Lulu by leaving a message with The Review's editorial department at 606-8730.
