Canada
Canada: Windsor city workers strike betrayed
By David Walsh, July 27, 2009
The 1,800 municipal workers in Windsor, Ontario, on strike for 101 days, were betrayed by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union and the entire union appa...
CUPE leadership isolating Toronto city workers’ strike
By Carl Bronski, July 27, 2009
As the bitter strike by 24,000 Toronto municipal workers enters its sixth week, there is a growing disquiet amongst the membership.
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...
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.
Quebec: La presse editorialist denounces Quebecers as “selfish”
By Louis Girard, July 18, 2009
The Quebec bourgeoisie and its propagandists are raising a hue and a cry over the Quebec government’s rapidly deteriorating fiscal position so as to prepare the political and ideological ground for ...
Canada: CUPE forces Windsor strikers to vote on concessionary offer
By Keith Jones, July 16, 2009
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has bowed before the City of Windsor’s demand that it submit the city’s latest concessionary contract proposals to municipal workers for a ratificatio...
Toronto’s Mayor lashes out against striking city workers
By Carl Bronski, July 13, 2009
David Miller, Toronto’s purported “pro-labor” mayor, released to the media Friday details of the city’s latest concessionary contract offers to 24,000 striking municipal workers.
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...
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...
More establishment lies against striking Toronto City workers
By Carl Bronski, July 1, 2009
Toronto’s political and corporate establishment are ratcheting up pressure on 24,000 municipal workers to accept across-the-board concessions on wages, benefits, seniority rights, and working condit...
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...
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
June 26, 2009
As they enter their 11th week on strike, two strikers talk to Jerry White of the World Socialist Web Site.
