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December 4, 2014 -
No. 102
2014 Photo Review
All Out for People's
Empowerment!
April
TML Daily
is continuing its month by month photo review of
actions carried out by
collectives of working people in 2014. In April, workers
commemorated
those injured, killed
or made ill on the job, with the conviction that
workplace injuries, deaths and diseases can and
must be ended. This
year marked the 40th anniversary of the Elliot
Lake Uranium
miners'
strike, one of the first in the country waged
over the right to safe
and healthy working conditions. A forum was held
to commemorate the
occasion. Workers'
fight for rights also continued on the front of
justice for injured
workers and for security in retirement, to
resist the attacks by
governments imposing neo-liberal austerity in
the service of private
interests.
April 2014 also saw a Liberal majority
government established in Quebec
and the escalation of the fight against its
imposition of anti-social
measures with impunity.
At public forums in northern BC, participants
took up the social
responsibility to find a new direction for the
forest industry on which
many communities depend. In so doing they put on
the agenda the
empowerment of
the people to have a say in the direction of the
economy.
April 1-6
The
Canadian
Network
on
Cuba
organizes a cross-Canada tour by
acclaimed Cuban musician Gerardo Alfonso Morejón, to build
the links between the
peoples of Canada and Cuba.
Hamilton, April
1
Windsor, April 4
Vancouver, April 6
April 4
Ontario
workers
hold monthly picket outside PC Leader Tim
Hudak's office to oppose the
austerity agenda championed by both the
Liberals and PCs.
April 5
Monthly
picket
outside U.S. Embassy in Ottawa demands freedom
for all the Cuban Five
anti-terrorists, unjustly imprisoned in the
U.S.
April 7
The
Ontario Health
Coalition organizes a referendum to stop the
dismantling of community
hospitals and the transfer
of their services to private clinics. Nearly
56,000 people participate,
the vast majority voting against cuts and
privatization. In London activists
organize an action
outside Health Minister Deb Mathews office on
April 7, the day the
results are
announced.
 
April 11
Injured
workers
hold picket outside the Workplace Safety and
Insurance Board offices in
London, Ontario, demanding the provincial
government rescind
anti-social changes to the compensation system
for injured workers.
  
http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2014/OP0323.HTM#4
(Occupy
WSIB)
April
12-14
Activists
in
Northern BC hold highly successful
public forums on forestry, in Prince
George, Mackenzie and Williams
Lake, under the banner
"Renewing Our Woods: Keeping Our Forests
Public and
Sustainable."
Participants affirm the need for
people's empowerment to defend the
public interest against monopoly right.
Prince
George
Forest policy analyst Anthony
Britneff (left) and
environmentalist Vicky Husband
 
Leonard
Thomas,
Economic Development Officer, Nak'azdli
First Nation (left);
and Keith Akinson, Chief Executive
Officer, First Nation Forestry
Council.
 
http://www.cpcml.ca/BCW2014/BC0207.HTM#3
April
16-18
The
United
Steelworkers organize a forum to mark
40th
anniversary of the
Elliot Lake, Ontario miners' strike over
health and safety conditions at the
uranium mines. The forum
takes place in
the context of the Steelworkers'
"Stop the Killing, Enforce the Law"
campaign that
emphasizes
the
need
to
continue the fight for health and
safety
today.
 
  
 
http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2014/D44049.htm#4
(Photos: USW)
April 22
Alberta
health care
and
public sector workers hold noon-hour
picket in
defence of pensions outside
Misercordia
Hospital
in
Edmonton.
The action is part of workers' ongoing
mobilization to defend the
right to security in retirement against
the phony austerity agenda of
the provincial government.
 
 
 
 
April
23
Municipal
workers in
Montreal rally to
defend pensions and to demand the
city negotiate
with them in good faith. Their fight
is that of municipal
workers across Quebec against the
Couillard government's Bill 3,
which promotes the capital-centred
disinformation that workers' and
their pensions are an unsustainable
cost to the society
that must be reduced or eliminated.
April
23-26
Rallies
and pickets
against the Harper government's
self-serving electoral reforms take
place at MPs offices and other
locations in
cities across Canada.
Ottawa
 
  
 
Halifax
 
Toronto
Hamilton
Winnipeg
http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2014/W44017.HTM (Photos:
TML,
LauraGr,
T.
Whitfield,
M.
Elizabeth)
April
28
Workers
and their
families mark the Day of Mourning for those
killed,
injured or made sick on
the job.
Ottawa
 
Oshawa
 
Toronto
 
Barrie
Brampton
Hamilton
Brantford
Waterloo
 
North
Bay
Sudbury
Edmonton
April
30
More than
1,200
members of four Ontario Public Service unions
express their fighting
unity
against the Ontario government's austerity
agenda in a joint rally
at
Queen's Park. A pact for solidarity during
negotiations is
announced "to protect public services in
Ontario, ensure good jobs,
fair contracts, liveable wages and decent
benefits for employees,
retirees and our families."
 
Bottom left,
left to
right: ALOC President Sean Hanley; PEGO
President Ping Wu, AMAPCEO
President Gary Gannage
and OPSEU President Warren "Smokey" Thomas.
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