Friday, September 29, 2006

THE IRVINGS - Do they have a heart????


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Originally uploaded by Oldmaison.
She never had a clue about my blog!!!

Yesterday, I walk by this woman who was reading the Globe and Mail.

Many of readers believe that I take pictures without asking for permission.

This is my approach - Hi there! Do you know what a blogger is?

Close to 75% of the time the answer is -No! < Especially among the older adults >

I continue on and say- A blogger is someone who reports news but with an opinion. I’m the biggest Blogger in New Brunswick with over 130,000 visitors to my site. < At that moment, I noticed the expression on their face saying - My God? This guy has an ego problem...lol..

I continue by saying - Excuse my language but I’m also the biggest Bullshitter you have ever met in your life.

I usually get a good chuckle out of this one so therefore I gain the individual trust.

I wanted to take a picture so I can show the readers in my blog that many New Brunswick are turning away from the Irving papers and reading outside of the province newspapers.

Well, I took this picture and I received this email hours afterwards.

Word of mouth is the most importance in promoting my blog site.

Anyway, this is her sad story about the Irving Empire.

I remove her name.

Hi Charles

I was the girl you photographed reading the Globe and Mail today.

I just visited your blog for the first time and wanted to tell you what a
fantastic service you are doing to Atlantic Canada.

My father was employed by Irving after they bought out his family owned business.

After dedicating his services to their company at the expense of time spent with his family he had an accident on a job he was supervising and as a result was in a coma for several months. Irving illegally fired and replaced my father while he was still in coma and refused for several months after to pay out the disability payments they legally owed him.

They demaned he see a doctor of "their" choosing to prove our family doctor's claim that he was unfit for work (not that it mattered, they had already decided he was unfit for THEIR work) he was forced to travel BY CAB from our home in Moncton to "their" doctor in Fredericton.

It took months of court appeals and down and dirty dirt smearing to finally "win" the disability payments they legally owed him.

I had to share this story with you to illustrate a point I respect
you for making public.

Irving is a power drunk trainwreck.

They have no compassion for the environment, for free speech, of for the welfare of so many people whose lives they effect everyday.

Thank you for what you're doing Mr Leblanc and I wish you all the success in the world.

Sign

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW.
Great Information.
Hope Spinks and ed doherty haha ed doherty i imagine, blog this.
Someone must have stole this as i see it on canadas largest blog site.

Anonymous said...

I could also write the same kind of story because my husband was also imployed by the Irvings and was injured on the job but he was lucky and received WHSCC. WHSCC has been cut so many times since he first got injured (in the 80's) that its really gross. They are dirty, they have reps that lie in court for them and the WHSCC accomidate them instead of the injured worker. My husband was also fired before the 2 years was up and they got away with it. The Irvings keep his vacation pay and said that he had never returned to work. They are really dirty!!!

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Please put this in your comments, It was Frank McKenna who introduced
legislation that allowed employers the right to fire employees due to
sickness/injuries.

If the company has less then 100 employees the employees only have 1 year from their injury/sickness to get back to work or the Employer has the legal right to fire you.

If they employ more then 100 people then you have 2 years to get back to work.

Nowadays it takes sometimes longer then that to have a specialist diagnose you let alone operate and treat you.

Very unfair legislation and it certainly should be put to the challenge of the reality of this day with the new liberal
government.

Anonymous said...

Great digging.
I would like all the info you can get on this hazzard.Its important for the rest of us to learn how our children can become multi millionairs.
He also put into law allowing Irving to shoot the beaver.
The poor people who prayed to him have got to learn to keep their eyes open.You learn a lot at Deersdale.

Anonymous said...

Question: What do you get if you dump a bucket of Leaches into a tank of hungry Great White Sharks??

Thats simple "the Irving Empire."

Anonymous said...

There something wrong with our Government and the power hungry employers. The bigger the corporation is and the wealthier they are; the more they afford the legal help to put good people struggling out on little money. Fire or black ball them for as long as they wish, the Irvings have done that with many families.