Autonomous action in Saguenay for locked out-e-s

Here is the press release of an autonomous action that took place yesterday in Saguenay supports more than 300 Locked-out workers at various car dealerships and garages in Saguenay / Lac-St-Jean. The lockout has been going on since February 2013.

SAGUENAY, 22 July 2013 // In the early afternoon, of citizens of Saguenay have carried out an action in solidarity with the workers locked out at dealerships in the region, there is more than that 4 month. After going inside to pass the message to customers to delay their purchases, demonstrators blocked the entrance to one of the concessionaires until the police arrived. By this lockout, the employers try to impose a cut of almost 100 jobs, a decrease in working conditions and more and more subcontracting - a decrease in the quality of service. In this conflict which is getting bogged down with judicialization, we will not stand idly by the injustice that strikes them.

While 450 families are thrown to the sidewalk, dealers continue to make a profit. Lockouts have their hands tied by dozens of injunctions, contempt and tickets - the balance of power is clearly on the employers' side. Each client who crosses a picket line is complicit in the bad faith of this party who refuses any negotiation. As our banner said : Our lives are worth more than their profits!

We are determined to stay by their side, no matter the cost, until victory. in parallel, downstream, this morning, an autonomous group of several dozen people made a hard block in solidarity with the workers of Mapei on strike for more than a year. Against all these attacks on the conditions of our social class, we will be beasts of hope!

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