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December 17, 2013 - No. 150 2013 Photo Review One Class One ProgramJuly TML Daily is continuing its photo
review of workers, women and other collectives in action throughout
2013, to fight for the rights of all, defend social programs and public
right, and oppose imperialist aggression. July is the month the Montreal Maine and
Atlantic train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killing
47 people and injuring many more, also destroying the entire downtown
area. This brought to light the criminal deregulation regime authorized
by the Harper government and began to reveal the large number of
derailments which take place across the country as a result of the
increased exploitation of labour, speed-ups, relaxed safety standards,
etc. In July, working people in BC and Ontario
organized to intervene in provincial by-elections. In BC, the aim was
to prevent Christy Clark from taking a seat in the Legislature after BC
workers saw to it she lost her seat during the provincial election. In
Ontario, following the resignation of Premier McGuinty and various
of
his cabinet ministers, five seats were vacated. The call was given to
go all out to defeat the Liberals and PCs as the two parties
spearheading the austerity agenda and this campaign succeeds in two
ridings, Windsor-Tecumseh and London West. July 3
Homecare workers from Strathcona County gather at the Alberta Legislature to demand the government cancel its decision to hand over home care to a private company.   http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43085.htm#3 Steelworkers picket Max Aicher North America plant in Hamilton after being locked out June 30 for rejecting major concessions on wages and benefits.  http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2013/OP0243.HTM#3 July 5 Steelworkers from Lake Erie Works, locked out by U.S. Steel, picket Diane Finley's office to demand the Harper government hold monopolies to account.  Monthly picket against austerity agenda at Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak's constituency office in Beamsville.  July 6 Public forum during Westside-Kelowna by-election discusses issues facing voters and need for a pro-social direction for BC.   
July 7 Train derails and explodes in Lac-Mégantic due to criminal disregard of monopolies for peoples' well-being and government refusal to hold monopolies to account.       July 10 Picketer demands action to prevent future disasters during the belated visit to Lac-Mégantic of the President of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway.  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43084.htm#4 July 17 Steelworkers picket Lake Erie Works to oppose phony lockout by U.S. Steel.  Workers organize to make themselves a factor during five Ontario provincial by-elections. In Windsor-Tecumseh, activists go door to door calling on electors to defeat both the Liberals and PCs.  http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2013/OP0245.HTM#3 July 19 Steelworkers from Lake Erie Works, Local 8782 USW, carry daily pickets at Diane Finley's office in Simcoe after they are denied EI benefits during U.S. Steel's phony lockout. A delegation from Local 1005 USW participates.  July 20 Activists give the call to defeat the Liberals and PCs in the Etobicoke-Lakeshore by-election in Ontario.  http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2013/OP0245.HTM#5 July 23 Alberta Union of Provincial Employees hosts a barbeque in support of corrections workers fired after a wildcat strike at Fort Saskatchewan facility in April.  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43093.htm#5 July 25 Rally outside Council of the Federation meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake demands federal government take up its responsibility for public health care.                 http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43094.htm#1 During the Ontario by-elections, members of Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation District 9 distribute flyers calling on voters to defeat the Liberals and PCs. Left: at health care rally in Niagara-on-the-Lake; right: in London West.   United Nurses of Alberta holds picket outside University of Alberta Hospital to oppose cuts to nursing staff.  http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43093.htm#1 July 26 Cuba friendship groups across Canada organize celebrations of 60th anniversary of the storming of the Moncada barracks, Cuba's Day of National Rebellion. Toronto   Calgary; Vancouver   (Photos: Canadian Network on Cuba, Vancouver-Cuba Solidarity) July 29 Toronto march and vigil denounces the killing of youth Sammy Yatim by police.       July 30 Hamilton steelworkers join activists in Etobicoke-Lakeshore during Ontario by-elections. Tomorrow: Year End Photo Review August
2013
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