The BC SPCA has control of making policy but it seems to have little control in making its employees carry it out.

The Eccles Report (previous post) may be the employees giving the finger to management; BC SPCA management was asked by the City of Vancouver to provide a report on the AAS dogs, and it in turn asked its Vancouver Branch to inspect the dogs and write a report. But the report is useless. Who is being defied? We think it is the SPCA management being defied by some employees. And we think this defiance of new policy is mainly at branches that have pound contracts with unionized employees. We think we are glimpsing the smoke from the seething volcano of a colossal fight going on. Only if management wins will anything change on the ground.

This is not about union-bashing. This is about employees - unionized or not - who refuse to take orders and who work to undermine humane animal welfare policies because they think that they may lead to job losses. No one need lose their job, and in fact, the employees who really want to do animal welfare will welcome getting out of dog-disposal contracts that require them to kill dogs. Those who resist the BC SPCA's "New Directions" only prove that they not only don't mind contracts to "dispose of" dogs, but will fight to keep the contracts.

Related links:
http://www.animaladvocates.com/ron-polly.htm>
http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-union.htm>
http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-union-nv.htm>

All AAS pages are easily found here: http://www.animaladvocates.com/aas-alphabetical-listing.htm>