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October 20, 2016
Steelworkers Confront Monopoly Front
of
Financial Oligarchy and Its Supranational Arrangements
CCAA Judge Rules Port of Algoma
Must Continue to Serve Essar Steel
Algoma Without Payment
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Steelworkers
Confront
Monopoly
Front
of
Financial Oligarchy and Its Supranational Arrangements
• CCAA Judge Rules Port of Algoma Must Continue to
Serve Essar Steel Algoma Without Payment
• Bedrock Industries Group Proposal to
Restructure U.S. Steel Canada
• Inter-Monopoly Battles Rage within Canada's
Steel Sector
Opposition to
Anti-Social Offensive
• Mass Mobilizations Defend Public Seniors'
Care on BC's Sunshine Coast
• Montreal Demonstration Calls for Higher
Minimum Wage and Changes
to Labour Laws
Steelworkers Confront Monopoly Front of
Financial Oligarchy and Its Supranational Arrangements
CCAA Judge Rules Port of Algoma Must Continue to Serve
Essar Steel Algoma Without Payment
Inter-monopoly fighting is a disaster
for Canadians and their economy
The inter-monopoly fight amongst Social Wealth
Controlling Funds (SWCFs)
for control of the Algoma Steel mill descended into greater chaos and
incoherence following a Toronto judge's ruling on Monday
October 17.
Justice Frank Newbould acting under the authority of the federal Companies'
Creditors
Arrangement
Act
(CCAA) declared the Port of Algoma "insolvent" but in the same breath
ordered the Port to continue handling Essar Steel Algoma cargo without
payment. According to CCAA documents, the Port of Algoma has been in
this situation since the steel mill entered bankruptcy protection one
year ago.
 Essar Global Funds, the
pre-bankruptcy SWCF that owned and controlled Essar Steel Algoma
currently owns 99 per cent of the Port of Algoma with the City of Sault
Ste. Marie owning one per cent. In making his ruling, Justice Newbould
claimed that the CCAA Debtors-In-Possession, Chief Restructuring
Officer and managers of Essar Steel Algoma presently under bankruptcy
protection are directing their own workers to handle cargo at the Port
and should be allowed to use the privately-owned property for free. In
a written statement the
judge says, "There is no management or direction given by [Port of
Algoma] to [Essar Steel Algoma]. The [Port of Algoma] has no
operating management at all. It is insolvent."
Contrary to the judge's assertion that the Port of
Algoma has no
operating management, its Chief Executive Officer Anshumali Dwivedi is
visible and active in Sault Ste. Marie. He instructed his lawyers to
argue in CCAA court, for the second time, that his company Essar Ports
is entitled to be paid under the cargo handling agreement with
the steel mill for moving goods through its property. If not, his
lawyers argued, then the Port should be allowed to cease operations
regarding Essar Steel Algoma and be relieved from its performance
obligations. In addition to this court activity, CEO Dwivedi appeared
at a reception and announcement at Algoma University on
October 14,
along with Navdeep Bains, the Liberal government Minister of
Innovation,
Science and Economic Development.
Concern was expressed in the courtroom by yet another
SWCF
called GIP Primus that a $20 million promissory note it owns from
money
loaned to Essar Ports is due and payable and not subject to the CCAA as
the port is not under bankruptcy protection. The lawyers argue that
charges incurred before the beginning of CCAA
are subject to a stop payment order but not those while under
bankruptcy protection. Justice Newbould would have none of it and
ordered for the second time that Essar Ports allow Essar Steel Algoma
to use its cargo handling services without payment.
"Not a whole lot has changed although the amount of
payments not
made to [Port of Algoma] is approaching the amount of the unpaid [port]
promissory note," the judge writes. "[Essar Ports] raises the same
argument again. It is not open to [the port] to do so. It has been
decided against [the port] and there was no appeal from that [previous]
decision. In any event, I am not persuaded that anything has changed
regarding how the port is operated," he adds.
Some argue that Essar Global Fund pulled a fast one
when it created
a separate business entity for the Port of Algoma in
September 2014
before entering CCAA the following year and should not be allowed to
demand payment for services and shut down Algoma Steel for non-payment.
Others would say that Essar Global Fund's move
is similar to the antics of U.S. Steel in declaring its ownership of
Stelco to be one of debt and not equity and jumping to the front of the
line for payment upon the CCAA bankruptcy sale of Stelco. In U.S.
Steel's case the CCAA judge has allowed the fraud to pass while in the
Essar case the judge is siding with those now in control of Algoma
Steel. It reveals again that the CCAA is the Wild West where no rules
apply just the subjective consent or dissent of the presiding judge
according to which SWCF he is siding with at the time.
Justice Newbould made his feelings clear upon writing
that he does
not favour the pre-CCAA owner of the mill and port, Essar Global Fund,
in this bankruptcy proceeding: "Such an order [forcing the mill to pay
for cargo handling] would have the effect of giving [the port] complete
control of this entire proceeding. That may be the wishes of its Essar
parent who has in the past indicated an interest in acquiring all the
assets in the Companies' Creditors
Arrangement Act sales process.... It is not in the interests of
the majority of all the shareholders.... As well, [Port of Algoma] has
said it has no money and whatever it receives from [Essar Steel Algoma]
under the cargo handling agreement has gone straight to its lender GIP
Primus. In those circumstances nothing would be achieved for [the port]
in being able to stop [Essar Steel Algoma] personnel from operating the
[port] facilities.... We are dealing with attempts to have a debtor
survive to see another day under a new owner."
CCAA judges have assumed extraordinary powers. The judge
in U.S. Steel's Canadian bankruptcy protection has ordered the
cessation of benefit payments for Stelco retirees. In both the Stelco
and Algoma CCAA, the judges have allowed the companies to stop paying
into the pension funds and halt the payment of municipal taxes.
Steelworkers point out that CCAA legal fees for lawyers, documents and
court use exceed by far the payments that have been halted, and both
companies are carrying positive cash balances.
In the U.S. Steel case,
through a ruling of the CCAA judge, the
equity owner of U.S. Steel Canada, the parent company U.S. Steel, has
become the main creditor, and the Canadian subsidiary, the former
Stelco, has become the debtor. The survival of the debtor and its many
employees and retirees is not the desired end for the judge in the
U.S. Steel CCAA, but rather a $2.2 billion payoff to the main
declared
creditor U.S. Steel upon sale or liquidation of Stelco. Justice
Newbould feels compelled to sum up the situation regarding Essar Steel
Algoma with banality, writing, "There must be choices made as to who
gets paid and who does not. As the monitor says, these are often
tough choices but a balance must be made between the debtor and its
stakeholders and the party claiming payment."
The "tough choice" for the judge is not one of a new
direction for
the economy and its steel sector that favours the people. That would
entail restricting monopoly right and having a public authority seize
control of the steel sector in the broad interest of the people. The
"balance" of the judge does not include the steelworkers and other
Canadians and their economy on which all depend for their survival.
Workers and their allies should not allow these inter-monopoly
conflicts to cause problems in their lives and economy. Workers must
lead in putting a stop to this incoherence and chaos in the economy.
All Out to Organize and Fight for a New
Direction for the Economy!
Bedrock Industries Group Proposal to
Restructure U.S. Steel Canada
On September 21 it was announced that Bedrock
Industries has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ontario government to take
over productive assets of the former Stelco from current owner U.S.
Steel.[1]
According to reports, Bedrock intends to buy remaining assets of
U.S. Steel in Canada minus what it considers encumbrances, and then
sell those assets in a few years for more than it paid. The pro-social
encumbrances are the pension plans, the Other Post-Employment Benefits,
Cost-of-Living Allowances in steelworkers' collective agreements,
environmental remediation for polluted land, unsecured creditors
owed money by U.S. Steel, unpaid taxes, and any previous or current
promises of certain employment and production levels. The provincial
government and Bedrock would accomplish the removal of pro-social
encumbrances using the federal authority of the Companies'
Creditors Arrangement Act
and by extorting employees and retirees
with threats of a complete shutdown of steel production and loss of
jobs, pensions and benefits, and a campaign in the mass media to wreck
the independent thinking, opinion, actions with analysis and practical
politics of steelworkers and their allies.
In removing the pro-social
encumbrances, Bedrock and the government
want to separate the production of Stelco steel from any lingering
social obligations that were built up over time through the class
struggle for rights of the actual producers of steel value and their
communities. Certain of those pro-social encumbrances have been
integrated
into Canadian society through a national and provincial government of
laws including labour law, commercial law, environmental law, tax law
and pension law -- all of which the monopoly front of the financial
oligarchy now considers fair game.
The encumbrances are in large measure features of
nation-building
that the working people have demanded over time to defend their rights
at the place of work and in their relations over a lifetime with their
employers and the state. The rights of the working class deal largely
with the exchange of its capacity to work with those who own and
control the forces of production. In exchange for their work-time,
workers claim some of the new value they produce in wages, benefits,
pensions and social programs.
The rights of the working class are directly connected
with the
management of the economy both in its parts and overall, and the
recognition that the actual producers who produce the social wealth
must have a say and control over the basic sectors of the economy, its
parts and the social value they produce. These rights include
assurances of
lifelong guarantees for their security and well-being in sickness and
in health, in childhood and retirement. Other pro-social encumbrances
such as those dealing with environmental remediation and the need to
respect the sovereignty of the peoples of world and settle
international issues peacefully without war have arisen from the
people's
recognition of the necessity to humanize the social and natural
environment and defend the general interests of society and all
humanity.
Those who own and control the social wealth the working
class
produces, such as U.S. Steel and Bedrock Industries, have developed
methods to negate the pro-social encumbrances that the working class
and society have put on the economy and country. They have formed a
monopoly front of the financial oligarchy to serve their narrow
private interests. Through their control of the mass media and official
politics, they wage constant ideological warfare to poison the people's
social consciousness. They have flooded the world with free trade
agreements and their militaries to impose supranational arrangements
that negate nation-building and facilitate empire-building and
interference in people's affairs up to and including predatory wars.
The monopoly front
comprised of global holding companies or Social Wealth Controlling
Funds (SWCFs)
and armed to the teeth with the U.S. imperialist military and its
aggressive coalitions such as NATO strives to free the world of all
pro-social encumbrances that developed during nation-building. These
encumbrances are seen as
a hindrance to monopoly right to grow their private global empires and
seize an ever greater portion of the social wealth the international
working class produces. The monopoly front of the financial oligarchy
and its SWCFs reject any encumbrances or rules of a traditional
company bound by national corporate, commercial or labour law.
It operates mainly through global SWCFs
unlike traditional corporations and in opposition to any governments of
laws that may insist on controlling their sovereign economy and
politics, which the monopoly front denounces as red tape, a cost to
taxpayers and a hindrance to development.
Those with knowledge of Bedrock's MOU reveal that a
subsidiary will be formed in Ontario that will act to shield Bedrock
from any claims arising from existing pro-social encumbrances or any
new ones that may develop.
U.S. Steel (USS), which itself is a SWCF
largely owned and
controlled by institutional shareholders such as JPMorgan, after their
takeover of Stelco in 2007, created a separate entity in Canada
called
U.S. Steel Canada (USSC) to shield their global assets from any claims
from existing Canadian encumbrances such as the
pension plans and the necessity for environmental remediation. USS used
USSC to concoct a story that any investment in Canada was to be
considered a USS loan to a separate business entity called USSC. This
loan amounting to $2.2 billion would be repayable to USS before
any of
the encumbrances would receive their claims upon the
sale or liquidation of USSC. The pro-social encumbrances would have no
right to claim U.S. Steel assets outside of Canada whereas in contrast
the monopoly front, which includes Bedrock, USS and all other entities
of the financial oligarchy, which both contend and compete for global
wealth and power, has the monopoly right to satisfy its claims
globally without restriction.
For the working class and Canadian society in general,
the question
arises as to what to do in the face of the monopoly front, their SWCFs
and the wrecking of all the previous arrangements and government of
laws created over the period of nation-building. The new situation
demands new methods of organizing and practical politics.
The old arrangements based on a national government of laws and its
political institutions have proven to be incapable of defending the
rights of the working class, the economy and general interests of
society in the face of the supranational arrangements of the monopoly
front. The case of Stelco during the last two decades proves this
conclusively.
The monopoly front
represented by U.S. Steel, Bedrock and the
political institutions of the financial oligarchy and its supranational
arrangements have gone behind the backs of the people affected to
concoct an MOU that dismisses the rights of workers and general
interests of society as unwanted and restrictive encumbrances. The
problem
confronting the working class and all those concerned with their
society is how to deprive the monopoly front and its supranational
arrangements of the vast economic and political power it has amassed,
which it uses to deprive the people of their rights, block the actual
producers from solving problems in the economy to secure its continuous
reproduction and their well-being, and deprive society of its right to
humanize the social and natural environment.
The working class and its allies can develop an
organized conscious
people's front to wage a determined battle to deprive U.S. Steel,
Bedrock, other SWCFs and the entire monopoly front and its
supranational arrangements of their power to negate the rights of
Canadians and wreck their economy, social programs, society and
national
government of laws.
Note
1. "The Bedrock Proposal
Is Not a Solution," Workers' Forum, September 29, 2016.
Inter-Monopoly Battles Rage within
Canada's Steel Sector
U.S. and other imperialists interfere
in Canada's affairs.
In
opposition, steelworkers organize themselves and mobilize their peers
and fellow Canadians to take control of their work and lives.
An extended battle between Essar Global Fund and Cliffs
Natural
Resources Inc. over the exploitation of iron ore in Minnesota and other
matters concerning their private interests has reached across the
border to Canada. One year ago, Essar Steel Algoma, an Essar Global
subsidiary steel mill in Canada, cited its inter-monopoly fight with
Cliffs as one of the reasons for entering bankruptcy protection under
the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
(CCAA). Essar said Cliffs was refusing to honour its agreement to
supply iron ore to Essar Steel Algoma without which the mill would have
to shut down. The steel mill in Sault Ste. Marie in Northern Ontario
sought
protection under CCAA in part to force Cliffs to live up to the
agreement to deliver iron ore as contracted. Essar Global has also been
targeted within the CCAA involving U.S. Steel in Hamilton and
Nanticoke.
In the U.S., Essar Global's subsidiary Essar Minnesota
entered bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code this past summer to rescue the long-delayed and over-budget iron
ore mining and refining project it is struggling to complete. When
operational, the project will be a direct competitor with the Minnesota
and Michigan mining assets owned and controlled by Cliffs. Essar
Minnesota controls lucrative
state leases, which are required to mine iron ore on state-owned
property. The company also received state grants to build the project.
Cliffs covets the leases as well as Essar's mining project under
construction and has enlisted various state and federal political
representatives in a
fight to seize them and eliminate Essar as a competitor. Its allies in
government have already forced Essar to pay back its state grants,
which was another reason Essar Minnesota sought Chapter 11
protection.
This inter-monopoly fight is one more disruptive
element wrecking
Canada's steel sector, which exposes the necessity for a new direction
for the economy. The narrow private interests of the monopolies to
defend and expand their own empires in contradiction with other empires
and the good of the economy as a whole, and in opposition to
the rights of the working class and the Canadian people are tearing the
economy apart.
The U.S. accounting
monopoly Ernst & Young is the court
appointed monitor overseeing the Essar Steel Algoma CCAA bankruptcy.
The monitor released its 19th report on October 3. This
report contains
news of an intensification of the battle between Cliffs Natural and
Essar Global. It appears that Cliffs is using allies within the
CCAA process in Canada to pursue its battle with Essar Global and
weaken its position in both Canada and the United States in hopes of
wiping out Essar Minnesota and seizing the iron ore mine under
construction and the state iron ore leases.
The CCAA judge has apparently agreed to Cliffs' request
to exclude
Essar Global from participating in Algoma Steel's restructuring. Essar
Global has also been denied participation in the bidding for U.S.
Steel's Canadian assets currently under CCAA protection. The agreement
for Cliffs to continue supplying iron ore to Algoma Steel under
CCAA contains provisions that directly attack Essar Global. The monitor
says Cliffs inserted a clause giving it the right to stop supplying
Essar Steel Algoma with iron ore if the Canadian steel mill develops
any sort of relations with Essar Global.
According to the monitor, the agreement for Cliffs to
supply iron ore pellets during the fourth quarter and into January 2017
contains direct reference to Essar Global prohibiting its participation
in the CCAA restructuring in any fashion even though Essar Global is
the owner of the assets under bankruptcy protection. The
monitor also reports that Cliffs' supply agreement is contingent upon
conditions that include an amendment to the CCAA Debtor-In-Possession
and stay provisions. To receive iron ore, Essar Steel Algoma had to
agree that it would not sell or transfer the iron ore to any Essar
Global subsidiary or the supply agreement for additional volume would
be annulled.
Cliffs, knowing that other iron ore from farther away
and at short
notice would be prohibitively expensive made additional demands that an
impartial observer would say unduly interferes in the restructuring
process and borders on extortion. The monitor writes, "Cliffs'
obligation to supply the additional volume is further conditional upon
there
being no agreement to sell all or a material part of the business or
assets of Algoma to an Essar Global Entity having been approved by the
Ontario Court and no CCAA plan having been sanctioned by the Ontario
Court under which, upon implementation, an Essar Global Entity would
retain or obtain a material equity interest in Algoma."
With these conditions attached to the supply of iron
ore, Cliffs
directly interferes in a bankruptcy process in Canada, in which the
U.S. monopoly is not directly involved as a bidder or major creditor.
The monitor does not denounce this interference in the restructuring
process and the open extortion and attack on Essar Global nor the
possibility that the ugly affair is a plot connected with an attempt to
weaken Essar Global and take control of the competitor's iron ore mine
in Minnesota, which is under construction.
The continuing fight between
these two monopolies has spread into
Canada and is one more reason that Canadians must organize themselves
and mobilize their fellow Canadians for a new direction for the economy
away from and in opposition to monopoly right, control and disruption.
Canadians need control over their economic affairs so
that they can solve problems and move forward.
The men and women Canadian steelworkers and salaried
employees
active in the industry are organizing themselves and mobilizing their
peers and fellow Canadians to put an end to the inter-monopoly fighting
and wrecking of their steel sector. They demand control over the work
they do and the value they produce for the good of
themselves, the economy and society. They demand the control necessary
to open a new direction for the economy to solve its problems free from
the inter-monopoly feuding, empire-building and intrigue of the big
companies. Workers and their allies uphold a broad vision of
nation-building to serve the well-being of the producers, their
communities, the economy and general interests of society in opposition
to the narrow vision of the monopoly empire builders based on their
private interests.
Opposition to Anti-Social Offensive
Mass Mobilizations Defend Public Seniors' Care on BC's
Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast townhall meeting, September 12, 2016.
Workers, seniors and community members are loudly
voicing their
opposition to the privatization of seniors' care on the Sunshine Coast,
British Columbia. Seniors' residential care on the Sunshine Coast has
for more than 30 years been provided at two public homes in
Sechelt,
Shorncliffe and Totem Lodge. On June 1, the
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) announced that the two homes
would be replaced in 2018 by a private, for-profit residence
operated
by Trellis Group. Trellis Group was awarded the contract for three of
six proposed new or expanded seniors' care facilities in the region.
This would double the number of seniors' care homes in
BC under the private control of Trellis.
Mass community meetings
continue to be held, the first organized by
Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons on June 29. At
that
meeting more than 100 people were turned away from
the 250-person
capacity hall. Representatives of Trellis and the Vancouver Island
Health Authority refused to attend and
answer the concerns of seniors, their families and health care workers.
Prior to that meeting the Hospital Employees'
Union (HEU) which represents many of the Shorncliffe and Totem workers,
conducted a phone survey in which 74 per cent of the 767
respondents
said that seniors' care should remain public. A
petition initiated by Simons calling on the government to stop the
privatization plan and the attacks on the workers had more
than 8,000
signatures by September.
Under intense community pressure, the Health Authority
held a townhall meeting on September 12 which more than 500
people tried to attend
despite the room reaching capacity. Trellis also held an "open house"
on September 19 to speak "one on one" with community members about
their plans. This event was closely
managed, with only 50 people permitted into the Legion at a time
which
forced dozens of people to stand outside and wait their turn. Despite
this, workers and the community used the occasion to make their stand
clear once again. Workers, seniors and their families continue to speak
out against this attack on the quality of care for seniors
and on the rights of the workers that would result from the
privatization of seniors' care.
Townhall meeting in Sechelt, September 19, 2016.
At the end of September, Protect Public Health
Care-Sunshine Coast was formed by organizations in action such as the
Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of BC (COSCO), the Sunshine
Coast Labour Council, Alliance 4 Democracy Sunshine Coast, the BC
Nurses' Union and the Hospital Employees' Union. Workers, seniors and
community members are going everywhere, talking to everyone and not
giving the Health Authority a moment's peace.
The closing of public seniors' residences and their
replacement
with private residences has become common in British Columbia. In a
number of communities, public pressure has reversed some privatization
schemes while in others the problem continues and is increasing
overall. The VCHA in trying to justify handing over seniors' care to
private interests says there is no alternative and meeting the
increasing need for seniors' care with a public system cannot be done.
This has also been rejected by residents who point out that in Powell
River, another community on the Sunshine Coast, a new public seniors'
home was recently built to replace an older facility.
Although it is on the mainland, the towns and villages
on the
Sunshine Coast are accessible only by ferry from North Vancouver or by
air. Seniors' care for the community consists of the two residences in
Sechelt, the largest of the two communities in the area, with a
population of about 8,500. The population of the regional district
that
is served by the seniors' residences is about 26,000, most of whom
live
outside of Sechelt and the next-largest town, Gibsons, which has a
population of just over 4,000. More than 200 workers will
lose their
jobs if Shorncliffe and Totem Lodge are closed. As is usually the case
when a private operator opens a seniors' residence,
some of the fired workers will be invited to reapply for their jobs
with lower wages, fewer benefits and without their union.
Privatization and attendant
job losses will have serious
detrimental effects on the Sunshine Coast and its economy as many of
those who lose their jobs as a result of privatization will also lose
their homes and have to move elsewhere due to the lack of other
employment in the area and its remoteness.
The arrogance of the VCHA has also aroused residents'
anger. Many
people have objected to the surprise manner of the June 1
announcement
of privatizing seniors' care, the refusal to attend meetings and what
were described as lies told by Health Authority at the
September 12 townhall. At that meeting VCHA CEO Mary
Ackenhusen claimed that there was broad consultation with community
officials before the decision was made. Several local elected
representatives including Simons, the Mayor of Sechelt and the Chair of
the Regional Hospital Board all clarified that no one had so much as
spoken to them, and they learned of the plans from local media. There
has
also been broad condemnation of the way decisions were made without
seniors, families, workers and communities having any say.
The VCHA has dismissed the serious concerns about the
inferior
quality of care in private seniors' residences, including from cuts to
wages and staff in order to maximize profits and the disruption
entailed in the privatizing process. Lauren Tindall, Sunshine Coast
Director for the VCHA told CBC's On the Coast that she hoped
fired
workers would "allow that continuing relationship with the seniors they
are currently providing care for and will continue to provide care for"
by applying for jobs with the private owner. This is not the first time
that Health Authority spokespersons have implied that if the workers
truly care for the residents they will not harm them by turning
down lower wages and benefits or making waves now. Such disrespect for
the workers and the seniors serves only to increase the determination
of the workers and the community to put an end to the VCHA plan.
For updates, visit the Facebook
page for Protect Public Health Care-Sunshine Coast.
To sign the Hospital Employees' Union petition against seniors'
care privatization in BC, click here.
Montreal Demonstration Calls for Higher Minimum Wage
and Changes to Labour Laws
More than 1,000 people demonstrated in Montreal on
October 15 to
demand a higher minimum wage and changes to labour laws that benefit
workers. More than 30 organizations sponsored the event including
unions and community groups. Demonstrators said that a minimum wage of
at least $15 per hour is
required to meet the needs of workers and their families.
It is estimated that one
million workers in Quebec earn less
than $15 per hour at this time. This includes the hundreds of
thousands
of workers with difficult conditions and irregular hours, on short-term
and temporary contracts, and without unions, but also increasing
numbers of unionized workers, particularly those working in private
home care. Many women and national minority workers are forced into
these positions.
A spokesperson for the Organization of Filipino Women
in Quebec, PINAY, Jasmin de la Calzada told Workers' Forum
about the situation they are facing on the job. Calzada noted that the
large number of Filipino women in domestic jobs and working as live-in
caregivers face very difficult conditions. This is particularly true in
the
case of migrant workers, many of whom must send part of their
already-insufficient wages to the Philippines to support their
families.
In addition to demands for increased wages,
demonstrators called
for changes to labour laws that would guarantee paid sick leave to all
workers along with other benefits. The event received messages of
support from workers' organizations in British Columbia and Alberta who
are fighting for similar demands.
  
 
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