Court Injunction Attacks De Havilland Workers
De Havilland workers stop vehicles going into
the plant
on July 27, 2021, the first day
of the strike, prior to the injunction.
The
Ontario Supreme Court issued an injunction on August 17 to make the De
Havilland workers' strike ineffective. The injunction permits scabs
into the plant to continue production until its final decommissioning
without coming to a satisfactory agreement with the workers. Their
union condemned the injunction, writing that Ontario Supreme Court
Justice Myers, "[sided] with the interests of wealthy corporate owners over
those of the community, the 700 workers and their families.
This injunction silences our members and stops workers from
picketing peacefully against De Havilland. After the company
bargained in bad faith, reneged on an agreement to continue
negotiations, and began using scabs at the Downsview plant,
the union launched a peaceful protest to pressure the
company to commit that Dash 8 manufacturing would remain
within a reasonable radius of the current Downsview site. [...] To
call this injunction an abomination is an understatement.
This is a new low for workers' rights in this province.
Limiting our members' picketing activities to just one
person walking the line for sixty seconds every five minutes
is preposterous."
The De Havilland
workers deserve the support of all unions and workers across
the province and country. With the support of the working
people and by rousing public opinion against the stomping of
workers' rights, fights such as this one can be won. It can
be done! It must be done!
Whose Plant? Our Plant!
Whose Economy? Our Economy!
This article was published in
August 25, 2021 - No. 74
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/WF2021/Articles/WO08742.HTM
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