Windsor Salt Strike

Windsor Salt Workers Ratify Tentative Agreements After six months on strike, workers at Windsor Salt in Windsor, Ontario, have ratified collective agreements. Empower Yourself Now send its wholehearted congratulations to the workers and their unions for holding the line, upholding the dignity of labour and realizing their demands despite the difficulties they faced. Congratulations also …

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Salt Workers to Consider Second Tentative Agreement On August 24, the bargaining committees for Unifor Locals 240 and 1959 announced that they had reached a second tentative agreement with the owners of Windsor Salt, Stone Canyon Industries Holdings Inc. (SCIH), after in-person meetings with representatives of the company in Toronto. The workers have been on …

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Pathetic Attempt by Legacy Media to Incite Opinion Against Salt Workers Workers continue to oppose cowardly attempts by the legacy media to disinform Canadians and blame the salt workers for damaging the economy so as to justify some form of government intervention to end the strike. One report in the Calgary Herald titled, “Inside the …

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Workers’ Pension Funds Must Not Be Used to Finance Union-Busting On August 20, 2023, the Ontario Teachers’ Federation (OTF) will meet for its summer Board of Governors’ meeting in Toronto. A major issue of concern that will come up at the August meeting is the significant investments of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in …

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Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s Talk About Responsible Investing In its most recent Annual Responsible Investing and Climate Strategy Report, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) says that its purpose is to “invest to shape a better future.”[1] Its investments in and seat on the Board of Managers of Stone Canyon Industries Holdings Inc. (SCIH) and …

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Dirty Activity of Canada Steamship Lines in Salt Strike Using a court injunction it received allegedly to protect the environment and machines in and around the salt operations it owns in Windsor, Ontario, Stone Canyon Industries Holdings Inc. (SCIH) has been able to maintain a level of production at its Ojibway Mine complex during the …

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Salt Workers Deliberate and Gain More Confidence in Their No! to Union-Busting Following the rejection of the tentative agreement by miners at the Ojibway Salt Mine in Windsor, Ontario, the miners as well as production and clerical workers in the other two bargaining units of Windsor Salt are discussing the situation and how to make …

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Stone Canyon’s Destructive Activities with a Critical Canadian Resource As salt workers on strike at Windsor Salt in Windsor, Ontario reflect on events leading up to their strike, and the way the company’s owner Stone Canyon Industries Holdings Inc. has acted to prolong the strike, now in its sixth month, they are reaching the conclusion …

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Is Stone Canyon Hiding Its “Leadership”? A review of Stone Canyon Industries’ website reveals that the page which outlined those who run the company is no longer online. Although a link called “Our Leadership” exists on its main page, it does not go anywhere. In the past the link went to an outline of the …

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Stand as One with Windsor Salt Workers! Negotiate Don’t Dictate! – Empower Yourself Now – Rally in support of striking Windsor Salt Workers, June 29, 2023 On July 26, miners in the Windsor Salt Ojibway Mine complex in Windsor, Ontario voted to reject a tentative agreement between their bargaining committee and the employer that they were …

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