CAW Warns Parents & Coaches of Sport's Leagues

"Playing field mowers are scabs, CAW warns
Union says it may stop funding children's sports leagues if coaches, parents cut grass during strike"

That was the headline to a story in The Windsor Star, May 29 - by Frances Willick

I really wasn't going to mention this strike at all.
It's ugly and both sides have issues but this warning is very disturbing.

"The CAW may stop sponsoring children’s sports leagues if coaches and parents take to the baseball diamonds and soccer fields with lawn mowers during the city workers’ strike.

“We don’t have a habit of funding scab organizations,” said Gary Parent, secretary-treasurer of CAW Local 444.

Mowing the sports fields would be tantamount to being a scab, he said, and that sort of interference would “absolutely” affect the council’s sponsorship.

“That would be taken into deep consideration,” he said, adding the council would have to investigate to find out who was maintaining the fields."

Holding the city hostage and making threats like a regular school yard bully might not be the way to deal with this. I'm sure when the dust settles there will be people on both sides that won't forget what's happened and some hurt feelings will linger. We really don't need the bad publicity nor do we need another black eye when all eyes will be upon us soon. Realistically, Gary Parent has already announced his upcoming retirement (if memory serves me correctly), so he won't be the one to clean up the mess this war of words will leave behind.

Click here to read the original Star article.

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