Eighty Jewish CUPE members have filed applications with the tribunal, claiming they have been made to feel “isolated, unwelcome, scared, silenced, discriminated against, threatened and harassed.” The lead complainant is Carrie Silverberg, an education assistant in a public school board and a CUPE member of 17 years standing, who is seeking $500,000 in damages.
Her application names CUPE Ontario, its president Fred Hahn, and Local 3906, which represents 3,500 workers at McMaster University in Hamilton.
The application points to
a tweet on Oct. 7 by CUPE 3906 as the terrorist attack was taking place that read: “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance” and
another on Oct. 8 by Hahn that praised “the power of resistance.”
Hahn apologized two weeks later but the application said it “lacked sincerity” and was just the latest in a long pattern of discrimination against Jewish union members.
The application states that Hahn has advised Jewish members that the Jewish people “stole” the land of Israel from Palestinians, and that he encourages and condones antisemitism.
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It virtually admits its behaviour has resulted in Jewish members feeling unwelcome and discriminated against.
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