I walk with my postman and my mail carrier!

 

After having managed to hold two contingents last week during the 1^is May, therefore by ensuring a presence in each of the events that were taking place for the occasion, this morning again the Industrial Workers of the World of Montreal and Quebec took to the streets again. This time it’s in support of Canada Post union members who meet, just like their colleagues from the United States and France, in the crosshairs of the conservatives, of employers and the liberal right in general. Several hundred workers gathered this morning at Émilie-Gamelin Park to listen to speeches before moving east on Sainte-Catherine Street., extremely symbolic area since it is on this section of street that one of the last post offices to have survived the Harper government attacks is located. The procession finally reached the front of the Radio-Canada tower in support of its workers who are suffering, them too, government attacks to dismantle public services and replace them with subcontractors, non-union, with low salaries and without the slightest social benefits.

What is at stake here is not just the end of home mail delivery, which is already extremely harmful for seniors and people with disabilities, but also the public service in its entirety, since a drop in wages and working conditions in any sector of public services will have the effect of dragging down all other sectors in its wake, thus pushing several tens of thousands of workers into the arms of precariousness. Public services are not just a good belonging to all Canadians, as the corporatist centers already remind us, it is also and above all one of the last vestiges of a past where the working class managed to prove, that once organized it is capable of fighting for a better life and thus improving its daily life. Let's not let the attacks from the employers' class aim to send us back 100 years in terms of working conditions., because'to confront one or one of us is to confront all of us and that a victory for one or one of us, is a victory for all!