Key Union Struggles — building the fightback

Tuesday January 18, 2010

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Ryerson University Student Campus Centre

As the economic crisis continues, governments and employers are bringing in
austerity measures, lowering our living standards and working conditions. A number of unionized workplaces are particular targets, and have the potential to become key centres of resistance. Listen to and engage with representatives from:
–Local 1005 Hamilton Steelworkers (facing a lockout and concession demands at US Steel);
–City of Toronto Municipal Workers from Local 416 (bargaining with the new Ford administration in Toronto);
–Canadian Union of Postal Workers (dealing with concession-laden bargaining talks).

We will:
–Explore what key labour struggles tell us about the general strategy of business and governments;
–Look at their potential for building resistance across the labour movement and working class as whole;
—Consider the strategies and political approaches needed to win;
–Build for the January 29th/30th Workers’ Assembly Labour Conference
(http://www.workersassembly.ca/callout2011/)

Participate in smaller group discussions, providing a space to analyze, strategize and build.

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Krystalline Kraus

krystalline kraus is an intrepid explorer and reporter from Toronto, Canada. A veteran activist and journalist for rabble.ca, she needs no aviator goggles, gas mask or red cape but proceeds fearlessly...