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When things seem squirrelly: an employer hires a security firm who goes looking for squirrels in all the wrong places.

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| March 01, 2001 | Paavo, Adriane | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's one of the strangest events in the Grain Services Union's (GSU) history. In late November, GSU discovered that Agricore was spying on Union social events and meetings in Manitoba. GSU Local 2900 held one of its annual meetings in a hotel in Swan River. During the meeting, a hotel staff person came in to say that someone had secretly put a tape recorder behind a room divider to try and record the meeting.

Union staff and members seized the tape recorder. With the help of the hotel staff, they learned that the man who planted it worked for the private security firm B. A. Evans & Associates Inc. of Winnipeg. Further research showed that B. A. Evans had been hired by …

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