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December 8, 2012 - No. 44 2012 Photo Review Year of Resistance and Organization
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The New Year is ushered in with a militant protest by 800 Rio Tinto workers in Alma, Quebec, brutally locked out on New Year's Eve, before their contract even expired 
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Protests against Rio Tinto Alcan, Alma  
January 3 Caterpillar Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) workers locked out December 31 picket plant in London, Ontario   January 3 White Birch workers and supporters demand reopening of Quebec City paper mill    January 4 More than 600 Alma workers demonstrate in front of Île Maligne Dam and office of Énergie Électrique against sale of electricity by Rio Tinto to Hydro-Quebec during lockout under its secret deal with Charest government      January
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Rally organized by University of Alberta students at Alberta Legislature in Edmonton calls for repatriation of Omar Khadr and closing of Guantanamo Bay torture centre  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42007.htm#4
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January 9Solidarity BBQ for Caterpillar EMD workers in London         Alma workers' signs express opposition to attacks on union through subcontracting   http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42001.htm January
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Rally of Alma workers and supporters January 12 New Brunswick chapter of Victims of Brookfield meets to elaborate its 2012 fight-back plan; Quebec counterpart does same on January 20  January 16 Alma workers on their picket lines  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42003.htm#2 Alberta health care workers overwhelmingly reject mediator's report; ballots are counted January 17 (left) and results are presented next day (right)   http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42005.htm#2 January 18 More than 1,300 of 1,650 Rio Tinto workers in Arvida vote at two general membership meetings in favour of $1 million interest-free loan to support locked-out Alma workers  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42008.htm#2 January 18 Student association executive of Cégep de Jonquière unanimously pass resolution supporting Alma workers and students visit picket lines  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42008.htm#2 January 18-19 EMD workers on the picket line in London; Caterpillar fences off plant while negotiations still ongoing         http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42004.htm#1 January 19-20    January 21 Day of action in support of locked-out Caterpillar EMD workers in London                                                      http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2012/OPF02020.HTM#1
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Public meeting in Burns Lake, BC following explosion at Babine Mill (left); BC Government and Service Employees' Union gives $10,000 cheque to workers affected by the disaster (right)   Students protest tuition hikes in Halifax  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42010.htm#2 January
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Information picket of workers at Waterford
and Edith Cavell Seniors' Homes, Edmonton
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Car caravan in support of
Alma workers
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