MONTREAL Some 420,000 public workers went on strike for the first time Nov. 6, demanding a new contract with the Quebec government. A majority of them are health and education workers united in a Common Front of four union federations. These are the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN),
Under conditions of a dramatic upsurge of workers’ struggles in Canada and internationally struggles that have increasingly taken the form of rank-and-file rebellions against the union bureaucracy the Trudeau government, and its union and NDP allies are acutely aware that they must create new mechanisms to suppress the class struggle.
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Although contracts for their 420,000 members expired more than seven months ago, Monday’s half-day strike was the first job action called by the Common Front inter-union alliance.
The mealy-mouthed statement, signed by Unifor, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and others, is aimed at confining protests to futile appeals to the Liberal government which is itself complicit in horrific Israeli war crimes to press for a “ceasefire.”