Canadian Union Demands Time Off for Grieving “Spirit Friends”

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Won’t someone think of the ghosts? (via Blazing Cat Fur)

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) wants its members to be able to take paid grieving days for “aboriginal spirit friends.”

The Educational and Library Science group of the public servant union did not offer an explanation or definition of “aboriginal spirit friend,” but wants the term added to the list of family members workers can take days off to mourn.

Gilles Benoit of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, said he’s never heard the term before.

Maybe they’re the spirit friends of white people who like to wear fake native jewelery? Maybe they’re Quakers? Or maybe they’re just making up fake holidays at this point.

But that’s not the spookiest PSAC demand.

Other union demands: adding January 2nd, February 16th, May 1st to existing 10 paid statutory holidays

Four weeks paid vacation for new hires – up from three, five weeks paid vacation after eight years on the job

Destruction of negative employee performance reviews after one year

Maybe it would just be easier to hire their imaginary spirit friends?

  • Pete

    My family has always had pets, spent a fair amount of time camping and was religious. So I could say I am really connected to nature, religion and spirituality.

    I could find a lot of spirit friends, a whole phone book number of them.

    I hope the rest of you suckers like to work. :)

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    So, they also want the “Destruction of negative employee performance reviews after one year”? How could any employee — new hire or old hand — NOT have a negative employee performance review if all those demands are met? Why even show up for work? When would an employee actually “perform”? Why not add paid days off during lunar and solar eclipses, full and half moons, and the Ides of March? The birthdays of Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill (or their Canadian doppelgangers)?

  • ServosT

    I’d like one paid day off per month to grieve the passing of Western Civilization due to the insanity of the left. And a donut. I’d like a donut.

  • William Magoffin

    “Gilles Benoit of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, said he’s never heard the term before.”

    I’m not surprised. It seems very common for people to make up stuff related to the American Indian for their own benefit, just look up “Jamake Highwater” AKA Jay Marks and the fraud he committed to sell about 30 different books and receive federal grants to write them.

    • Pete

      Please give links. At the start of the day I will do multiple web searches.

      At the end of the day … not so much.

      Even with a web search out of 1,000 returns (10 pages with 10 items). there is a lot of dross.

      I should be able to leverage what you know. Reading the article is fine and I save good ones for later reference. But on top of that I want to see reader reaction and reader insights.

      But again there is a limit to how many searches I do in a day or can do.

      Remember that google is always scr_wing around with web search returns. So at some point web searches could be as biased as the evening news.

      So please link.

    • Pete

      Here is how to embed a hyperlink. I don’t know if you know how. I actually messed this up. I literally knew how to do this 20 years ago forgot, looked it up again, tried it and failed.

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      1) Take out the space between the “” and ”

      just look up Jamake HighwatertAKA Jay Marks and the fraud he committed

    • Pete

      Embedded hyperlinks are nice because writing flows better without clunky hrperlinks. And again, I had to link this up 2 weeks after #Failed the 1st time.

      http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp

      http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/_A_HREF.html

      Anyway I found an interesting link, but I don;t know if it is one of the ones you meant, a really good one or the best one.

      http://www.thefullwiki.org/Impostor

      People who “went native”
      - Grey Owl, an Englishman who wanted to be Ojibwa.
      - Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, an African American who claimed to be a Native American.
      - Iron Eyes Cody, an Italian American actor (the “crying Indian” in anti-litter commercials), who claimed to be a Native American.
      - Two Moon Meridas, herbalist and faux Amerindian.
      - Jamake Highwater (aka Gregory Markopoulos, Jay Marks), author.
      - Forrest Carter, author of The Education of Little Tree.
      - Carlos Castaneda, writer and self-styled anthropologist.

    • Pete

      This site is really interesting. It is solely devoted to one person/impostor.

      http://sustainedaction.org/

  • Pete

    From Wikipedia

    “Highwater was born Jay Marks, an Armenian adopted by a Greek family. Later he changed his name and claimed American Indian ancestry.”

    But it also says citation needed.

    Of course Highwater will not provide documentation showing he is a liar.