April 23, 2014 - Vol. 3 No.
24
Build the Independent Politics
of the
Working Class!
All Out for May First --
International Day of Working Class Solidarity
Build
the
Independent
Politics
of
the
Working
Class!
• All
Out
for
May
First
--
International
Day
of
Working
Class
Solidarity
Public Servants Take a
Stand for Rights
• Unions
Sign
Solidarity
Pact
Government Legislates
Provincial Bargaining in Education
• Problems
Begin
to
Reveal
Themselves - Mira Katz
• The
Need
for
Democratic
Renewal
Comes
to
the
Fore - Enver Villamizar
Coming Events
• April
28
Day
of
Mourning
Build the Independent Politics of the
Working Class!
All Out for May First --
International Day of Working Class Solidarity
2012 May Day march,
Toronto
May First is a day for the working class internationally
to affirm its independent political demands and fight for its rights
and
the rights of all. In Ontario, actions are being held in
Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor. The government has announced
that it will also table its latest austerity budget
on May 1, setting the stage for a possible provincial election.
Since May Day 2013, the working people of Ontario have
made advances in blocking the austerity agenda and denying both the
Liberals or the PCs the ability to emerge as champion. They have
been defeated in three by-elections, forcing Hudak to publicly back
down on his "right-to-be-slave-labour laws" while the Liberals have not
been permitted for an instant to hide their anti-worker agenda in hopes
of appearing "fair" or "progressive."
May Day 2014 is an opportunity for the working people of
Ontario to to advance their own stands against nation-wrecking and for
manufacturing; to oppose
the illegitimate austerity agenda and its corollory the privatization
of public services and public assets; and say No! to attacks on
workers' wages and working conditions and the most vulnerable in
society, including injured workers -- all of which will no doubt be
pushed in the Liberals' budget.
Everyone is encouraged to join in the actions where they
are taking place, or call actions where they are not.
All
out
for
May
Day
2014!
Event Listings
Ottawa
Solidarity Against Austerity
Gather at McNabb Park -- 4:00 pm
March -- 5:00 pm
For information:
www.MayDayOttawa.ca
Toronto
Honour Our Communities! No
One Is Illegal!
Rally and March
-- 5:30 pm
Gather at Allan
Gardens
(Gerrard between Jarvis and
Sherbourne)
For information: maydaytoronto14@gmail.com
Hamilton
Defend the
Rights of All!
Rally and March --
3:00
pm
Assemble at
Max Aicher (MANA) plant gates, 855
Industrial Dr.
BBQ -- 5:00 pm
Local 1005 USW Union
Hall (350 Kenilworth Ave. N)
Organized
by:
Local
1005
USW
For
information: 905-547-1417 or
info@uswa1005.ca
Windsor
March for Our Rights
-- 4:30 pm
Art Gallery of
Windsor (Bruce and Riverside)
Labour Village
-- 6:00-8:00 pm
OSSTF District 9 Office
(547 Victoria Ave)
For
information:
may1windsor.wordpress.com
Public Servants Take a Stand for Rights
Unions Sign Solidarity Pact
At a press conference on April 16, the presidents of the
Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown
Employees of Ontario
(AMAPCEO), the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union (OPSEU) and the
Professional Engineers Government of Ontario (PEGO) signed a solidarity
pact
to stand together against the austerity attacks of the government.
Three other Ontario Public Service (OPS) bargaining agents, the
Association of Law Officers
of the Crown (ALOC), Ontario Crown Attorneys' Association (OCAA) and
the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) expressed their
support for the
pact in a media release.
The solidarity pact states:
"We, the undersigned labour unions
and associations that represent Ontario Public Service (OPS) employees,
pledge to join forces
and support this solidarity pact. Our convergence stems from the need
to protect public
services in Ontario, ensure good jobs, fair contracts, liveable wages
and decent benefits for
employees, retirees and our families.
"As professionals, our hard work touches the lives of all Ontarians on
a daily basis. We
are the ones that make the Ontario government work. In return, we ask
that our employer, the
Ontario government, show us the respect, dignity and fairness we have
earned and
deserve.
"Instead, the government is taking a mean-spirited approach to labour
negotiations and it
is seeking vindictive cuts, concessions and claw-backs.
"In a historic move, we pledge to work together to withstand these
aggressive
attacks.
"Today, we join forces in defence of all OPS employees. In signing our
solidarity pact,
we send a message to the government that OPS employees will not be a
scapegoat for the
government's financial situation; a crisis that we did not create. We
affirm our commitment to
act in a united fashion to defend and protect the rights of more than
57,000 OPS
employees.
"The undersigned agree to act together in respect to these areas of
common interest. To
ensure this, the parties will communicate and coordinate accordingly.
The parties agree to
respect this common approach throughout 2014.
(OPSEU Local 549)
"We pledge to work together to do the following:
- Defend the importance of keeping
Ontario's services public;
- Advance the social, economic and general welfare of all employees
in the OPS;
- Support each other in protecting the provisions of our collective
agreements;
- Protect the long-term viability of the OPS;
- Establish strong working relationships with all
OPS labour unions and associations;
- Act to defend and protect the civil rights and liberties of
employees and protect the rights and freedoms of trade unions in
Ontario."
AMAPCEO
President Gary Gannage
pointed out, "The employer is attacking not just AMAPCEO members,
retirees and their families, but the entire public service in Ontario.
The support of the
other public service unions and associations is a powerful message of
unity the government should pay attention to."
AMAPCEO has worked hard to keep its members as well as
the broader public informed of its fight for a just contract with the
Ontario government, their
employer. The fight these workers are waging is one not only for their
rights but for the rights of all workers in Ontario to have dignified
working and living
conditions.
By sticking to their demand for negotiation and no
dictate, and by defending the services they provide, members of the OPS
are exposing the fraud that the working people can rely on the Liberals
to affirm their rights, an empty promise Wynne repeats in hopes of
achieving a
majority through an electoral coup.
Government Legislates Provincial
Bargaining in Education
Problems Begin to Reveal Themselves
- Mira Katz -
Bill 122, the School
Boards Collective Bargaining Act,
2014 ("SBCBA"), passed third reading on Tuesday, April 8
and
received Royal Assent on
Wednesday, April 9.
The process to pass the legislation saw the Liberals and
NDP cooperate to ensure its passage as the PCs sought to delay it
claiming they wanted more public
input, while they sought to amend it to explicitly curtail teachers'
right to withdraw from voluntary extra-curricular activities.
After the legislation was
stalled in committee for two
days as a result of the PCs' filibustering, on April 2 the committee
passed 70 amendments
without any public discussion, according to official
transcripts of
the meetings dedicated to clause-by-clause consideration of the bill.
In other words, the
rationale and purpose of amendments to various clauses of the original
legislation seem to have been agreed to behind closed doors, mainly
between the Liberals and NDP, while the public and in particular,
teachers and education workers, were kept in the dark about the
significance of these changes.
In this way the Liberals sought pass the legislation as fast
as possible so the new arrangements they want for provincial-level
bargaining in the K-12
education sector are in place before everyone involved and affected
actually knows the new regime for determining
their wages and
working conditions. This is all the more significant given that in the
last round of negotiations the Liberals and PCs gave themselves the
power to flout the
normal laws pertaining to collective bargaining using Bill 115.
Of course the indecent haste to ram through the
legislation has left significant problems hidden from the light of
day. Only now
are they coming to light.
An analysis of the legislation released by the law firm
Hicks Morley, which says it acts for more than 40 school boards across
Ontario as well as their provincial associations on matters relating to
labour, employment
and education law, raises a number of issues which reveal various grey
areas within which the government can use its executive
regulatory
powers
to
decide
how
the
legislation
will
be
interpreted.
The Requirement for "Good Faith"
Writing for Hicks Morley in
a section entitled "Good
faith duty to cooperate with school board associations expressly
imposed on
the Crown (subsections 18(2) and 43(3))," Michael Hines points out:
"This is, from the perspective of school boards, the
most important amendment to the Bill. Formerly, the Bill obliged school
board associations (and councils
of associations established for support staff central bargaining) to
'co-operate in good faith with the Crown in preparing for and
conducting central bargaining.'
However, no reciprocal obligation was owed by the Crown to school board
associations. This situation has now been remedied. The Crown will be
required
to 'co-operate in good faith with an employer bargaining agency in
preparing for and conducting central bargaining.'"
The law firm adds however: "The Crown owes no
similar obligation to teacher
federations or unions.
This, in our view, makes it clear that the Crown no longer occupies a
strictly neutral position as between employers and unions, but rather
has a special,
qualitatively different relationship with school boards within the
central bargaining process. Interestingly, neither the 'duty to
co-operate' placed upon school
board associations nor the reciprocal 'duty to co-operate' placed on
the Crown are enforceable as if they formed part of the Labour
Relations Act, 1995 ('LRA'),
begging the question as to the proper enforcement mechanism for these
duties." (OPF
emphasis.)
In a section entitled "Applicability of LRA to
the Crown (subsection 4(2))," the Hicks Morley report states that "the
LRA does not, according to its
own terms (subsection 4(2))
bind the Crown. This means that the Crown cannot, for example, be
held liable for any unfair labour practice under the LRA such as
interfering
with a trade union or an employer's association. In the original
draft of Bill 122, the LRA was made
applicable to
the Crown, but only 'to the extent necessary to enable the Crown to
exercise its rights and privileges' under the Bill. Once again, this
appeared to insulate the
Crown from possible liabilities under the LRA. This was criticized and
the SBCBA now makes the Crown also subject to the LRA to the extent
necessary 'to
perform the Crown's duties' thereunder.' It remains unclear as to
whether this goes so far as to expose the Crown to liabilities under
the LRA in respect
of, for example, 'bad faith bargaining.'" (OPF emphasis.)
Who Decides and How
Another issue in the new legislation concerns possible
restrictions
on
how
teachers' federations and unions are able to ratify a central
(provincial) tentative agreement. The Ontario Secondary School
Teachers' Federation, for
example, at its recent annual meeting adopted important changes to its
by-laws which now require a double majority vote for ratification of
terms negotiated at a central table. This means that a simple majority
of all members across the province affected by the agreement must
approve it as well as a simple majority
of affected bargaining units. The idea is to ensure that any agreement
negotiated provincially must be acceptable not just to a majority of
members -- which
could be used by the government and employers to try and fashion
agreements that would be accepted by districts and bargaining units
with the largest number of members, while ignoring the issues of
smaller districts and bargaining
units -- but also to a majority of the bargaining units, thereby
also
preserving
the
ability
of
local
bargaining
units
to
exercise
some
decision-making
power
at the provincial level. A similar double
majority vote of bargaining unit presidents or chief negotiators will
also now be required to obtain
approval of a central bargaining brief that has been endorsed by the
Federation's provincial executive.
Hicks Morley has raised the
question as to whether this
arrangement is legal for ratification votes governed by the LRA under
the (amended) SBCBA:
"The Bill required
ratification of a central memorandum
of settlement ('MOS') by central parties (and 'approval' by the Crown)
as well as ratification of
any local MOS by the local parties. However, it did not specify the
mechanism by which such ratification was to be achieved. The SBCBA
now
makes
it
clear
that
the
ratification
processes
for
trade
unions
and
employees
are as set out in sections 44 and 79 of the LRA, requiring
votes of more than 50 percent in favour as applied separately in
respect of central and local MOUs. Local parties have no ability to
'ratify' central items, so
the ratification vote of a central employee bargaining agency will
evidently involve the entire group of employees that will be affected
by the central MOU.
It does not appear that a federation or union could specify any form of
double majority in respect of a central ratification."
In terms of how this affects school boards, Hicks Morley
points out: "The SBCBA also now clarifies that the 'weighted majority'
voting process for the employer
bargaining agency specified in subsection 21(4) is to be followed in
its ratification process -- a matter previously left in doubt. Where
the
central bargaining
involves support staff bargaining and a council of trade unions, the
weight to be assigned to the votes of employees in each bargaining unit
may be determined
in the documents that establish the council."
Scope of Arbitration
In terms of the manner in which provincial bodies have
been given the power to usurp local decision-making the Hicks Morley
points out under the heading "Arbitration of central terms within local
agreements (section 42)":
"Bill 122 permitted central parties to seek arbitration
over disputes regarding central terms. However, the Bill restricted the
issue to 'the interpretation' of
the central clause and confined the remedy available to the 'obtaining
of a declaration' -- no substantive relief against individual boards or
unions could be
ordered. The SBCBA has changed this by providing central parties with
access to 'final and binding arbitration to resolve any difference
concerning the
interpretation, application or
administration of any central term of a collective agreement.' This
suggests that a central employee
bargaining agency can involve itself (and its corresponding central
employer bargaining agency) directly in the interpretation and application of
the
central
provisions of an individual school board's collective agreement. This
is reinforced by the fact that the new subsection 42(5)2 allows the
centrally appointed
arbitrator 'to interpret and apply local terms to the extent necessary
for the purpose of resolving a difference respecting any central terms
at issue in the
arbitration.' The revised section 42 no longer limits the arbitrator to
making declarations. Rather, subsection 42(5)4 will allow the
arbitrator to 'make orders
in respect of each of the collective agreements' that contain the
central term. The Crown is entitled to 'intervene' in such
arbitrations. Where a local school board
has obtained a decision of a local arbitrator involving a central term,
this decision is subject to displacement by a subsequent decision of a
centrally appointed
arbitrator, which will have to be applied on a going forward basis." (Emphasis in original.)
The Need for Democratic Renewal Comes to the Fore
- Enver Villamizar -
Bill 122, the School Boards Collective Bargaining
Act received Royal Assent on April 9 with more than 70 amendments
made
to the original
legislation. The amendments eliminated some of the broad arbitrary
powers the Minister of Education wanted to assume over negotiations,
particularly the
ability to unilaterally decide what issues would be negotiated
centrally, precluding them from local jurisdiction.
During the one-day public hearing convened by the
Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly, many education workers'
unions and school boards expressed their opposition to provisions of
Bill 122 that violated their rights. The Ontario
Secondary School Teachers' Federation, District 9, for instance, told
the Committee that
"wherever this legislation eliminates the right of one party, whether
it be the unions or the boards, to say no, it violates democratic
rights." Unions unanimously
addressed the Committee with their proposed amendments to limit the
ministerial prerogative and areas they wanted to see changed. They also
held their own
meetings with the various political parties and MPPs on the committee
to lobby for changes to the legislation, presenting them with specific
amendments they wanted adopted.
The fact that the unions
spoke with almost one voice on
the importance of eliminating the arbitrary powers the government
wanted to give itself speaks
volumes about the fact that the government has yet to back down from
its program to try and usurp power to impose austerity. It also shows
the legacy of the
fight of teachers and education workers against Bill 115: they continue
to refuse to accept dictate.
In the end, some of the proposed amendments were passed
by the Committee, while others were not. It was the parties which
decided, without any public
deliberation about what would or would not be changed and why. A
number of linchpins for the austerity agenda within the legislation
were left in. For example, the
government's "ability to pay" and "Ontario's economic conditions" --
the
regime the
government already applies to essential
services workers to impose austerity on them, and to
interest arbitration for settling local teacher contracts. These
conditions are now
extended to apply to province-wide teacher agreements, and to
non-teaching support staff for the first time.
Negating the essence of the fight of teachers and
education workers for legislation that does not facilitate the
imposition of the austerity agenda and the fact that this demand
of their unions was not respected, Education Minister Liz Sandals
simply declared: " ... Speaker, as you can see, the feedback
from our education partners has been respected, and it is reflected in
this bill through these amendments. This shows that we listened and
responded in a positive,
respectful way."
This experience reveals how the parties in the
Legislature do not function as mechanisms to represent the concerns of
the people, as purported, but rather act as representatives
of the economically powerful, in this case to defend the austerity
agenda. Neither the Liberals nor the NDP were prepared to accept the
essence of what the
teachers and education workers were demanding: that the government's
ability to impose austerity be eliminated. They decided what would or
would not be accepted.
The parties use their decision-making power to ensure that the
neo-liberal
direction for society is not reversed. Meanwhile the people who have to
live under the laws
are reduced to spectators hoping that their rights will be recognized.
Organizations of teachers and education workers were beholden to the
parties on the committee
in the hopes that they would "see the light" or, out of concern for
their
electoral prospects, would see the advantage in making some concessions
to teachers
and education workers.
The more the party system disintegrates
under the weight
of the neo-liberal anti-social offensive and the dictate of the
monopolies, the more the flaws of
the unrepresentative party-dominated system come to the fore. Measures
are needed to enable the people to affirm their right to determine the
direction of the society and to have a say over their living and
working conditions. Instead, more and more governments hold fraudulent
"consultations" and "reviews" and talk about "accountability" to hide
that the
neo-liberal agenda is set and no changes will be accepted.
Canada's Constitution needs renewal so that citizens and
organizations which represent workers and people in various sectors of
the economy are able to draft and propose changes to legislation as a
basic right. They must also be able to select and elect candidates of
their own choosing, not just those which the parties put forward and
the media declare "legitimate." This would contribute to ensuring
governments are able to transform the popular will into the legal
will and defend it, something which is not the case today. As more and
more Canadians take a stand against the anti-social austerity agenda,
they increasingly
recognize the need to fight for their empowerment to deprive the
monopolies and the parties that represent their interests of the
ability to deprive the people of decision-making power.
Coming Events
April 28 Day of Mourning
April 28 marks the 30th anniversary of the National Day
of
Mourning for Workers Injured or Killed on the Job. This year also marks
the 40th anniversary of Uranium
miners in Elliott Lake going on an illegal wildcat strike to protest
their occupational health concerns on the job after a spike in cancer
cases. In the course of
their fight, they learned that the Ontario government knew that the
poor working conditions caused their illnesses, but had not informed
them of the dangers
or acted to improve their situation. As a result of the miners'
actions,
the Ontario government was forced to create the Ham Commission to
investigate and make
recommendations. Its hearings revealed the industry's scandalous
conditions, and its report eventually resulted in the Ontario Health
and Safety Act (OHSA). The Act did not cover the miners until
1984, so they
took matters in their own hands and worked through their internal
health and safety
committees to fight for improvements in the work environment.
Ontario Political Forum encourages everyone to
join memorials in their areas to show the sentiment of
Ontarians that it is the government
and employers that have a social responsibility to ensure that workers
have the highest possible health and safety standards so they can
return home safe and healthy
at the end of each day.
Mourn
for
the
dead,
Fight
for
the
living!
(All events on April 28
unless otherwise noted)
NORTH
EASTERN
ONTARIO
Kapuskasing
11:00 am
Riverside Park,
Riverside
Drive
Contact: USW Union Hall
(705) 335-2289
Kirkland
Lake
11:00 am
Miner's
Memorial,
Hwy
66
Kirkland
Lake
North
Bay
10:45 am
North
Bay
City
Hall,
200
McIntyre
Street East
Contact:
Dave
Vadnais,
dvadnais@opseu608.org
Sault Ste. Marie
11:00 am
The Grand Gardens
(formerly
USW Union Hall), 68 Dennis
Street
Contact: 705-759-4565
Sudbury
10:00 am
Laurentian
University,
Fraser
Auditorium
Guest
Speaker:
Leo
Gerard,
USW
International
President
Contact:
Jo-Ann
Marshall:
705-674-1223
Timmins
11:00 am
Miner's Memorial,
85
McIntyre Street
Contact: 705-365-7403
NORTH
WESTERN
ONTARIO
Atikokan
5:30 pm
Injured Workers
Monument,
Burns Street
Contact: Ken Brasseur,
Labour Council President, (807)
597-6155
Kenora
5:30 pm
Labour Council
Day of
Mourning Monument
Lake of the
Woods Cemetery (East gate)
Contact: Donna Wiebe,
Labour Council President,
807-468-7203
Thunder Bay
5:30 pm
Labour Council
Day of
Mourning Monument, Lakehead Labour
Centre,
929 Fort William Road
Contact: Day of Mourning
Committee email:
committee@domtbay.ca
Labour Council:
807-345-2621; Injured Workers Support Group:
807-622-8897
We request you bring one
red rose to place at the
Monument
For details, visit:
www.domthbay
EASTERN
ONTARIO
Cornwall
11:45 am
Day of Mourning
Monument
Site (west of the Clock Tower),
Lamoureux Park
Lunch will follow the
ceremony.
Kingston
12:00 noon
USW Union Hall, Greenridge
Plaza, 105 Sutherland Drive,
Suite 7
Lunch: (hot dogs and beans)
Cost: $5 for single ticket or $50 for a sheet of 10
tickets
Contact: Kingston and District Labour Council:
905-548-4952
Perth
12:00 noon
Crystal Palace (across from
the library)
Contact: Danny Whitmore: 613-283-4834
Smiths Falls
7:00 pm
Memorial Park (Cenotaph)
Contact: Danny Whitmore: 613-283-4834
Ottawa
12:30 pm
Vincent Massey
Park
(Entrance on Heron Road at
Riverside Drive)
Speakers: Ken Georgetti,
President, Canadian Labour
Congress
Sean McKenny, President,
Ottawa & District Labour
Council
Fundraising BBQ will
follow the ceremony
Contact: Ottawa and
District Labour Council: 613-233-7820
Renfrew
12:00 noon
O'Brien Park
Contact: Marian Fraser:
613-432-6528
Pembroke
6:00 pm
Pembroke Marina
Contact: Marian Fraser:
613-432-6528
CENTRAL
ONTARIO
Barrie
Sunday, April 27, 2014, 11:00 am
Barrie City Hall,
flag-lowering ceremony
Oshawa
12:00 noon
Day of Mourning
Parkette,
Oshawa City Hall (corner of
King Street and Centre Street)
Reception to follow at
USW Hall, 125 Albert Street
Cobourg
4:15 pm
Lucas Point Park
(behind
the
Belden Plant), Willmott
Street
Orangeville
12:15 pm
Flagpole in front
of
Orangeville Town Hall, 87 Broadway
Contact: Primrose Short:
519-941-3074
Brampton
11:00 am
Brampton Monument Site,
Brampton Flower City, 8870
McLaughlin Road
Contact: Patrick
Williams: 905-866-4275
Peterborough
11:00 am
Peterborough City
Hall,
500
George Street North
Followed by lunch at the
Black Horse Pub, 452 George
Street North
Lindsay
Sunday April 27, 2014, 12:30 pm
Victoria Park,
210 Kent
Street West
Bracebridge
12:00 noon
Bracebridge
Sportsplex,
110
Clearbrook Trail
at The Day
of Mourning Memorial Bench
Woodbridge
11:00 am
Woodbridge
Memorial
Arena,
5020 Highway #7 (at Islington)
Contact: Toronto &
York Region Labour Council:
416-441-3663
Toronto
12:00 noon
Larry Sefton
Park, Bay
&
Hagerman Streets (behind
City Hall)
Contact: Toronto &
York Region Labour Council:
416-441-3663
SOUTH
CENTRAL
ONTARIO
Brantford
5:00 pm
Fordview Park
Speaker: Wally Lucente,
Office of the Worker Advisor
Proclamation: Mayor
Chris Friel
Contact: Gary MacDonald,
President, Brantford and
District Labour Council: 519-753-9142
Guelph
5:30 pm
Goldie Mills Park
(corner of
Cardigan &
Norwich)
Speakers: Mayor Karen
Farbridge and Speakers from Labour
and Community
Refreshments to follow
ceremony. Live Music.
Contact: Laura Maclure:
519-400-4655
Hamilton
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
McMaster
University,
MUSC
Room 308-309
Contact: Jim McAndrew:
905-525-9140 x 26257 or
safety@unifor5555.ca
5:00 pm
Hamilton City Hall
Commemoration in City
Council Chambers, 71 Main Street
West
Candlelit procession to
the Workers' Monument for the
laying of wreaths,
Reception follows in City Hall
Contact: Hamilton and
District Labour Council:
905-547-2944 or hdlc@cogeco.net
Oakville
6:00 pm
Oakville
Public
Library,
120
Navy
Street
Contact:
Tim
Batke,
Vice
President,
ODLC:
905-334-8228
Milton
11:00 am
Chris Hadfield
Park
(corner
of Steeles and
Martin)
Aboriginal Blessing;
Refreshments to follow.
Contact: Jo-Ann Newell,
(647) 983-5076; Alma Gildea, (905)
878-9838
Please RSVP to Jo-Ann
Newell, Unifor 414
Waterloo
10:25 am
Waterloo City
Hall (at
the
Workers Monument), 100 Regina
Street South
Contact: Waterloo
Regional Labour Council: 519-743-8301
NIAGARA
REGION
Fort Erie
9:30 am
Town Hall, Hwy
#3, at
the
Monument
Port Colborne
9:00 am
HH Knoll Park at
the
Monument, Sugarloaf Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake
9:00 am
Centennial Park
Arena,
Four
Mile Creek Road, Virgil
Niagara Falls
10:15 am
City Hall, 4310
Queen
Street
Welland
11:00 am
Merritt Park
Monument,
King
Street
Port Robinson
11:00 am
Esquire Explosion
Site,
125
South Street North
St. Catharines
11:00 am
The Workers'
Monument,
Government Road beneath St.
Catharines' Skyway
12:00 noon
Merrit Park
Monument,
St.
Paul Street West at Burgoyne
Bridge
Thorold
2:00 pm
Monument at
Niagara
Region
Headquarters, 2201 St.
David's Road
Contact: Bruce Allen:
905-934-7233
SOUTH
WESTERN
ONTARIO
Chatham-Kent
4:00 pm
Workers' Memorial
Rock
and
Bench across from Thames-Lea
Mall
Reception after Ceremony
at Unifor 127, 280 Merritt
Avenue
Contact: Bill Steep:
519-627-5234
Kincardine/Tiverton
10:30 am
Bruce Power
Corporate
Training Centre, Building 10,
Tiverton
Contact: Kevin MacKay:
519-396-1848, kmackay@bmts.com
Owen Sound
10:45 am
City Hall, 808 -
2nd
Avenue
East
Contact: Linda Dow
Sitch: local004@ona.org
Brad Drake:
campaign@unitedwaybg.com or 519-376-1560
Hanover
11:00 a.m.
Heritage Square
Contact: Hazel
Pratt-Paige: 519-379-4300
Goderich
April 27, 2014, 1:00 pm
Location:
Workers'
Monument,
top of North Harbour Road
(across from the Historic Gaol)
London
10:00 am
Tolpuddle
Co-operative
Common Room, 380 Adelaide Street
North
Guest Speakers: Patti Dalton, President, LDLC
Len Elliott, Local 102,
Executive Board Member of OPSEU
Steve Holmes, ATU, WHSC
Volunteer Award Recipient
Light Lunch to follow
the ceremony
Contact: London and
District Labour Council:
519-432-3188 or ldlc@execulink.com
Ingersoll
5:00 pm
Dewan Park
(corner of
Charles & Thames)
Contact: Broderick
Carey, President: 519-421-5938
Sarnia
6:00 pm
Flag Court,
Centennial
Park
Guest Speakers: John
Millholland, Health & Safety,
Shell Canada, Unifor 848
Sandra Kinart, Victims
of Chemical Valley
Contact: Penny
Jakubowski: 519-542-2375, sdlc@bellnet.ca
St. Thomas
5:15 pm
Pinafore Park,
Elm
Street,
(at the Monument)
Speaker: David Kerr,
President, St. Thomas and District
Labour Council
Contact: David Kerr:
519-318-3861
Stratford
10:30 am
Upper Queens
Park,
Bandshell, Queens Park Drive
Contact: Kim Kent,
stdlcnew@sympatico.ca
Windsor
5:00 pm
Begins at St.
Augustine,
5145 Wyandotte Street East at
Westminster
6:00 pm March to the
Injured Workers' Monument in Reaume
Park/Coventry Gardens
Riverside Drive at
Pillette
Contact: Tracie Edward:
519-257-9942
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