Workers Issues in the Canada
Canada: Worker resistance must be armed with a socialist strategy
By Socialist Equality Party (Canada), July 22, 2009
The Toronto and Windsor city worker strikes are part of growing working class resistance to big business’ drive to make the working class pay for the crisis of the profit system. But if this resista...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 21, 2009
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Canada: Windsor municipal workers reject new concessions contract
By David Walsh, July 18, 2009
Windsor, Ontario municipal workers, on strike since mid-April, overwhelmingly rejected the city’s “final offer” in voting July 16.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 14, 2009
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Canada: After strike ends, wholesale layoffs at Hamilton’s National Steel Car
By Carl Bronski, July 11, 2009
Only a week after workers at National Steel Car’s Hamilton plant were pressured by their union into ending a three month strike and accepting a concessions-filled contract, the company announced tha...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 7, 2009
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Toronto mayor risks public’s health in city workers strike
By a WSWS reporting team, July 4, 2009
Angry residents of the working-class neighbourhood of Christie Pits in west-central Toronto have filed an official complaint with the Ontario government charging that the city administration is violat...
What is behind the media’s venomous attack on striking Toronto city workers
By Keith Jones, June 30, 2009
The corporate dailies have never been known for their sympathy for workers’ struggles. But the press campaign against the striking City of Toronto workers is nonetheless extraordinary for its feroci...
Striking Toronto city workers: management is “after everything”
By a WSWS reporting team, June 25, 2009
Twenty-four thousand City of Toronto inside and outside workers are resisting a concerted drive on the part of the economic and political elite of Canada’s wealthiest city to impose major contract c...
Municipal workers resist concession demands in Windsor, Ontario
By Jerry White, June 25, 2009
Eighteen hundred city workers in Windsor, Ontario, have entered their 11th week on strike.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
June 23, 2009
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Toronto city workers strike against sweeping concession demands
By Keith Jones, June 23, 2009
More than 24,000 Toronto municipal workers launched strike action shortly after midnight Sunday to oppose the city’s sweeping concession demands.
