A local union leader has vowed that a barricade will remain up at the Compass Minerals salt mine in Goderich, Ont., until contract negotiations resume.
“Nobody is coming through until we get back to the table as far as I can see,” said Gary Lynch, president of Unifor Local 16-0. “Unless they bring a tank down here, I ain’t going anywhere,”
More than 350 unionized workers at the mine have been on strike for about 10 weeks.
The picket line turned into a barricade Wednesday night, because the striking workers said they were frustrated by a lack of progress with management.
“They’re going by in their vehicles laughing at us because they have a contingency of workers doing our work. There’s no reason to get back to the table,” said Lynch.
1.) Its about Canada. Nobody pays attention to Canada, even the Canadian media doesn’t devote that much coverage to issues like this.
2.) This is a labour rights issue. Something that the corporate mainstream media is reluctant to cover in any detail.
Which is why Social Media is so important. Also Canadians are very helpful with getting things in the States to a wider audience, its up to us to return the favor.
Thanks for the support. 🙂
If anything running this blog has taught me, its that widely Canadian issues are ignored even if relatively popular blogs like this one regularly post about them.
Here’s hoping stories like this one and others get some more exposure.
Are there any resources like funds that can be donated to?
I haven’t seen anything yet, but if you want to keep up to date on this strike, follow these twitter accounts:
People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.
Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian
Specifically he was Parsi. Also raised Zeroastrian.
We joke about Steve’s patriotism as his strong suit, but his actual strength was his sense of moral right. His whole philosophy is summed up in the line “I don’t like bullies” in the first movie. Steve loves his country. He loves it enough to be at the front of the line trying to fix what he sees as moral wrong in it.
steve rogers is patriotic in the most real sense: he represents the concept at the core of the american ideal, the concept of freedom that is the reason our political system is designed to adapt and alter itself for constant improvement.
he is not loyal to any momentary leader or agenda, and when those leaders and agendas stand contrary to his core ideal of self-determination and freedom from oppression, he’ll speak up without hesitation.
honestly, i never would’ve thought captain america would be my favorite superhero, but he’s the activist i aspire to be.
Captain America is loyal to nothing but the dream.
The problem with Captain America’s image in the public mind is that people recite the first line of his byword and ignore the last part :
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
“This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world—
—No, you move.”
Steve Rogers is a radical and that’s why I love him.
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.
This is tomorrow!
Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.
Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow
Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.
For one day, please, avoid it.
One day does nothing. Avoid everything Amazon until they break.
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