Drive Test Strike! R-U Crazy?
The company managing Ontario's 55 road test locations Serco Drivetest DES Ltd, has been on strike now for 3 months! It seems their 250 full-time employees quietly joined the USW (Steelworkers) Union, local 9511, in the hopes that they could bully management into letting into the Union, the additional 280 part-time contract employees, entitling them also to full benefits. Let me ask you, my clients, did you get a raise this year? Are you entitled to job-security, and full benefits? Are you automatically under the protection and strong workers rites under the umbrella of such powerfull unions? Well I am not. What gives these people their sense of entitlement? When the economy is struggling out Canada's current recession, these 250 USW union members are holding this Province, and it's backlog of 300,000 applicants waiting for a road test hostage. Enough is Enough! I urge you to write to your MPP's, and write to Premier McGuinty as I have done. Urge them to step in, and put a quick sobering end to this political mish-mash nonsense. It is the Ontario Government's responsibility to oversee, and administer the Serco Drivetest company, to ensure we voting taxpayers, we 300,000 disgruntled voters, to provide what we have paid so much in taxes for: the right to take a driving test!!!
Too many seniors need to requalify for a driver's license after attaining the age of 80. Medical suspensions dealing with life-threatening medical conditions such as epilesy, and sleep aphnea, which demand an evaluating driving test, are now still driving untested! Hundreds, if not thousands of foreign drivers, and expired-licensed drivers are driving each day untested. Truck and Bus drivers in need of retesting are on our provicincial highways daily untested. This poses a huge safety and insurance risk to all of us. Are insurance companies going to give coverage to those killed and injured on our roadways to drivers with expired licenses? I think not! Any excuse to possibly deny coverage will be used against these motorists.
We Canadians are a passive people. Little has been said in the media, or done in protest to bring the plight of more than 300,000 affected individuals to the forefront. This must change! Premier McGuinty, this is YOUR responsibility to end the strike NOW! Your government oversees and administers these tests. At a time when your Ministry could be recouping a lost revenue of $800,000.00 daily, in this tough economic recession, to delay further is madness! Do not under estimate the disenfranchised seniors, commercial drivers, and soon-to-vote new drivers, we are watching while you continue to do nothing, we will not forget when it is our time at the polls to vote. It is your action NOW, or continued inaction that WILL be your political legacy!
c. Jeff C. Pope,
President, A Formula 1 Driving School, Maple, On.
cc. Premier McGuinty
cc. Frank Sorbara, MPP Vaughan
cc. Dr. Helena Jurzek, MPP Oak Ridges, Markham
cc. Frank Klees, MPP Aurora
the employees must yield to the wishes of ontarians and come back to work immediately.
Wouldn't we all want these requirements legislated into our own jobs. It's not realistic. Enough is enough, get them back to work, this is impacting our economy.
This has gone on long enough! For the safety of the public this strike should end NOW! Time for the government to get up off their hind ends and get into gear. Who wouldn't want all this to accompany their own jobs? There wouldn't be part time and full time if this was realistic. Time to act, McGuinty!
I guess our NON-VOTING young citizens are not a big enough reason for a resolution, eh To the spineless politicians who are not intervening: Put a stop to this faceless fascist-like fiasco of Serco DES, union belligerence and other global off-shore privatization and contracting. Truck drivers have been offered some sort of reprieve, now the rest of us have to wait???!!! I’m not in the young majority of the group that has affected, but I so feel their frustration. I, personally, need my DL for a new job that requires travel. I have finally waited 6 years to renew my DL and have to redo my road test. And my daughter needs to do her first road test. And now, through no fault of our own, we have to wait--still….how long???!! Shameful that a first-world country has to utilize second world values. MPPs…DO THE JOB THAT WE VOTED YOU FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE. And SEVERE Serco-DES’s contracted ASSS BEFORE their 2013 end!!
this is some bull shit i need my G2 so i can get a job cause their is no jobs in my small town of 6500 people i have to go else where which requires a vehicle but because of the strike i cant work its been three months now and its time to do something its affecting alot of people i got rent i gots pay!!!!!!!
I moved back "home" from Saskatchewan. I can not get my license changed over as I need an eye test. "I confess, I need glasses to drive." I came with the promise of a job, which I have now lost, because I do not have a valid license, my birthday was in September. So now I sit here on EI, instead of working. I am leaving Ontario for good this time, this province has gone to the dogs. Government here needs to look at what SK has done and make it fair for everyone.
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