CUPE President Fred Hahn says union leadership is recommending the general membership for support staff workers vote to accept a contract in the coming weeks.
An Ontario union leader is expressing regret after he shared a video on Facebook during the Paris Olympic Games that has caused discord in his union and been called hurtful by Jewish members.Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, said in a Facebook post on Sunday that he understands that a video he reposted on his Facebook feed recently has caused pain among some people who viewed it.
The video, reposted to Facebook by Hahn on Aug. 11, shows an Olympic diver on a diving board. The diver, who has a Star of David on his arm, jumps off the board and somersaults in the air. As he heads to the water, he apparently turns into a bomb. Instead of a splash, there are clouds of dust, mayhem and destruction on the ground. Bleeding children are carried away.
In his post Sunday, Hahn says "our collective focus" should be on the "unfolding genocide" in Gaza, not on him or his social media posts. "This apology is NOT accepted. It is disingenuous and forced. A true apology would not have been followed with a long justification for the video," the statement says.
"Our local will no longer stand silent while allowing Fred's views to be presumed as representing our own. Though Fred is free to have his beliefs on the ongoing conflict, the responsibility he holds regarding the way in which he expresses those views, impacts all CUPE members," Jovanovic said in the email.
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