The Communist Party stands in full solidarity with Metro workers in the GTA on strike and fighting against precarious work and for livable wages. Metro, along with the other Canadian grocery monopolies, amass record profits by pushing down workers’ wages and price-gouging the public in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. Metro workers are taking a stand and we stand with them.
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The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) stands in full solidarity with the 1480 members of USW Local 7135, who are on strike at National Steel Car. The CPC(O) further reiterates its calls for improved workplace health and safety legislation, and for enforcement of the Westray Law which holds employers responsible under the Criminal Code for workplace injuries.
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The Communist Party stands in full solidarity with the 250 workers at Windsor Salt who have been on strike since February 17th. As the strike enters its 14th week, we demand the company bargain in good faith and immediately cease their tactics of intimidation, union busting and the use of scab labour.
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The Ford government’s new strikebreaking legislation aimed at education workers is an unprecedented assault on workers’ living standards and labour rights. The government is attempting to use brute force to crush the lowest paid education workers as part of their broader corporate agenda to drive down all workers’ wages in order to facilitate privatization and corporate profits. The broadest solidarity and escalating action is needed now to defeat this attack.
The strikes by 43,000 construction workers across Ontario is an indication that there is a growing restlessness among this section of the organized labour movement. The Communist Party stands in full solidarity with all workers currently on strike to maintain wages and living standards.
