ILWU endorses government-dictated contract, shuts down Canadian West Coast dockworkers' strike

The 13-day strike has demonstrated that dockworkers confront a battle on two fronts: against the union-NDP backed Liberal government, which enforces the demands of the corporate elite and seeks to smash any resistance that obstructs the ruling class agenda of war and austerity; and against the union bureaucracy, which serves the ruling class by suppressing the class struggle

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