And while Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde is calling for cooler heads to prevail, one union leader spoke directly. Public Service Union President Dean Flowers, who’s been the target of recent character attack ads, had a blunt message for those behind them: ‘Grow up.’ Flowers voiced his frustration during today’s meeting with government officials and has even taken the matter to the international stage, filing a complaint with Public Services International. Here’s what he had to say.
Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union
“I have made my position clear with the N.T.U.C.B. They have a legal and moral obligation under the reporting mechanism to do so. I have reported that matter to public services internation. This morning, I tasked the labor commissioner that under the reporting mechanism that matter needs to be addressed. She informed me that at the Labor Advisory Board, the union participates there and the union participates in the reporting standard. So I will be holding our delegates responsible because I think it is responsible that for the record these things be registered so that future leaders and unionist can realize that there is a mechanism to expose these types of tyrants who are clueless and who have abandoned the principles by which their parties have found. I am pretty sure the founders of their parties would not stand and accept these types of childish and immature behavior. I said it to them, grow the hell up, that is my message to the leadership, grow the hell up.”