Week 16 of Windsor Salt Strike: Workers Face Disinformation Campaign As the strike at Windsor Salt enters its 16th week, word about the strike and its significance is spreading. The company, governments, and the media are doing their best to disinform everyone about what is at stake. They try to paint the resistance of the …
June 3 Windsor Salt Workers Solidarity BBQ! On Saturday June 3, Striking Windsor Salt workers in Windsor, Ontario are inviting all friends and families to Solidarity BBQs at the mine and evaporation plant picket lines to appreciate the stand of the entire community against attacks on the standards and practices that generations of salt workers …
“Teachers Have Your Back” – OECTA President Elect Speaks at Windsor Salt Picket Line On May 31 Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) provincial President-Elect, René Jansen in de Wal, visited Windsor Salt’s picket line in Windsor, Ontario along with local leaders of OECTA where he was joined by other teacher affiliate union members who …
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June 1 Injured Workers’ Day “I Want All of the People Who Have Been Disrespected, Ignored, and Hidden Away to Be Seen, to Be Counted, and to Be Heard!” – Liz Garant-Yaremcio The following presentation was made by Liz Garant-Yaremcio at the May Day 2023 Workers’ Roundtable held in Windsor, Ontario on April 30, 2023. …
Workers Oppose Blatant Union Busting in Alberta – Peggy Morton – On April 13, four hundred workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 at the Wapasu Creek Lodge, a massive 5,174-room work camp north of Fort McMurray, were issued layoff notices after voting 95 per cent to reject the employer Civeo’s demands …
Salt Workers Strengthen their Resolve to Stand Against Union-Busting The strike at Windsor Salt in Windsor, Ontario is now entering its 15th week with all indications that negotiations between the company and the unions — Unifor Locals 1959 and 240 — are not progressing. Windsor Salt’s owners continue to come and go as they please, …
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Windsor-Essex Teachers Step Up Their Support for Striking Salt Workers Two motions were passed unanimously on May 24 at the annual meeting of the Teachers’ Bargaining Unit of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, District 9 (OSSTF D9) in Windsor Essex, which show the growing support for the salt workers amongst teachers, whose pension funds …
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Rename Victoria Day Patriots’ Day – Let Us Celebrate the People’s Patriots and End the Ignominy of Monarchical-Patriotic Legends An assembly of some 6,000 Quebec patriots, the Assembly of the Six Counties, was held October 23-24, 1837 despite public assemblies being banned by the British colonial government. On May 22, 2023, the Communist Party of …
The Monarchy – A Block to the Progress of Society – Workers’ Weekly – Ever since Thomas Hobbes wrote his treatise on state power Leviathan in 1651, the monarchy has been promoted as a guarantee of stability, using the logic that without a person of state to which all look up, a figure of unity …
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Interview: Campaign for Peace on the Korean Peninsula In this video, Laura Chesnik of EYN interviews the Secretary-General, of the Korea Peace Appeal Campaign, Sooyoung Hwang, about the project launched in 2020 to involve as many people as possible in demanding: an end the Korean War and to establish a peace agreement, the creation of …
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