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Call Forum 15-5-7

Industrial Union of Workers – IWW Montreal invites you to participate in a public forum addressing the struggle for a minimum wage 15$ /h, 5 week vacation and 7 paid sick days per year.

This will take place the 12 February 2016 the Popular Education Center in Little Burgundy and St. Henri, the 2515 Delisle, 18:00.

This forum will offer a panel where several people present different facets of this struggle, is the economic aspect, the experience of a worker at minimum wage, a feminist analysis and the experience of this struggle in the US. On the panel will be present-e-s :

minh Nguyen, researcher at IRIS
Morgane M-Parsons IWW Montreal
Daniel crawled the 15NOW (United States)
Jean-Pierre Center for Immigrant Workers-e-s (CTI)
Jacques Fontaine e-s-employed Union of the Old Port of Montreal
Kim Bouchard Action-Unemployment Movement

Following the panel, there will be a period of questions and interventions thirty minute. After a short break, group discussions will be held on the following themes :

Immigrant Workers-e-s
Women and Working Conditions
precarious workers
Housing and precarious work
Community and working conditions

This moment is an opportunity for everyone to propose actions to be taken in the coming months.

We are launching this campaign because the minimum working conditions do not allow us to live, barely survive. These claims are essential to any-worker or worker wanting a decent life, pay rent, be able to raise children and do not be caught-e by the throat as soon as unexpected happens.

If this does not solve the question of capitalist oppression on our lives, these claims will enable us, collectively, mobilize and get us the minimum that we must!

We would like to mention that this forum will be open to everyone.

“Because we are worth more than the minimum!”

Industrial Union of workers'.

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Pickets of 16 and 17 November

The 16 and 17 on November, several members of the Montreal branch of the Industrial Workers Union and Workers (SITT-IWW) participated in the picket lines of the common front. These two days marked the return of the rotating strike the common front on the island of Montreal. several wobblies, Solidarity's call-Country Committee, took the opportunity to show their solidarity to workers in education as well as those in health and social services.

The 16 November, a dozen members showed up on the picket lines at Cégep de Dawson to support the two striking unions, either the Dawson Teachers Union (DTU), member of the FNEEQ-CSN, and the Dawson Support Staff Union (DSSU), member of the FPSES-CSQ. The strikers were present in large numbers and it was with enthusiasm that they walked around the school building with trumpets and signs in hand. We received a warm welcome from the members, as well as performers.

The 17 November, fifteen wobs went to St-Luc hospital to picket with union members of the Union of Employees of the CHUM (Secher), member of the CSN, and the Alliance of Professional and Technical Health and Social Services Staff of the CHUM (APTS-CHUM). The Essential Services Act only allows health and social service workers to be on strike only during 10% of their schedule, it is alternately that dozens of union members full of energy landed on the picket line. There too, a great welcome awaited us.

These days, where we rubbed shoulders with members of unions belonging to three organizations with different political opinions than ours, shows us well, in my opinion, that it is on the ground that solidarities are created. That despite different ideologies, and tensions caused by a misunderstanding of the intentions of each group, on a picket line, we are all workers struggling against crappy living and working conditions.

Solidarity!

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Class struggle and protection of animals 

Note: Les views expressed in this article are those of the author-e and should not be considered as official statements of the IWW-SITT.

Recently, an article had reported the situation in which live horses pulling carriages of Montreal and had updated the abuse that lived them. To follow, a group for the protection of animals had therefore organized a demonstration against the carriages in Montreal. It was a peaceful demonstration that was intended in response to unhealthy conditions and establishments where these animals live.

Until there, it means that if the horses live in poor conditions, should not bear the fact that they are forced to work in these. On the other hand, the organizers had well have a nice message, people who were left in the window of the protester-e-s that day, these are not the owners of the teams that push drivers to leave the horses in the heatwave, is the boss of these workers, but the drivers and blankets and they themselves. Read more →

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Montreal Police, Militia capital !

To read this article in English, click here.

As the week against police brutality is coming and that a significant social movement approach, it seems important to recall some elements of analysis needed to understand the role of the police, of all body. More precisely, we wish to mention here the various reasons that lead us to oppose the police, whoever she is, from any source, and in all situations.

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Every week, every day spent in this company deadly extension further the list of injustices by a member of a police force. They are and they are private-are never to humiliate us, hurt us, we amputate, playing with our lives and those of our loved ones and our fellow-nes, even murder us if this is their pleasure.

Strangely, we find that the individual-e-s-e-s touched by these "blunders" repeatedly belong overwhelmingly to the working class, employé-e-s or not. bosses, bankers, traders and other dominant gangrene are spared this scourge. If the wage robs us every moment of our time, Police reminds us that even our own lives longer belong to us, and since they have the right to permanently deprive us.

Anyone who has participated so slightly in a social movement during its existence has probably faced-e, at one time or another, to police forces of repression. The riot police, groups tactical interventions, police stations and other law enforcement groups have sole vocation to break strikes, prevent contestation of the established order, suppress more or less violently political opponents. this violence, that of the State, still more arming police, equipping it with a neo-military technology and weapons "non-lethal", gives it the full capacity of "crowd control" virtually autonomously. There are trades, and trades, whose social utility is only to "break the protester", increasingly effective, ever faster, ever more inhumanity.

To ensure its reproduction and maintenance of its own domination, the ruling class uses two tools : ideology and violence. If ideology is diffused throughout society, and invites us to e-remain in the rank which is his, violence must bring in the right way deviant and opponents. The State, guarantor of this class of reproduction, ensures the monopoly of violence through its police. In other words, the social function of any police force is to ensure the continued domination of one class over another, or so 'soft' by simply applying the law, either by repression properly speaking. As a revolutionary union, we want to overthrow the ruling class, and therefore we strongly oppose to its dominant ideology, and its police.

Against police, build solidarity among each-e.

No justice, no peace.

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10 days that shook Quebec and this is just the beginning!

Friday 31 October, it's under the theme ofausterity, a horror story, that demonstrations took place in the cities of Sherbrooke, Rimouski, Jonquière, Baie-Comeau, The Tuque, the Magdalen Islands and Montreal. The protesters of the latter numbered 50 000 according to official figures. This feat was made possible thanks to buses from nearly 10 regions of Quebec that converged on the metropolis, thanks to the mobilization, not only students who still had more than 82 000 strikers, but also from various trade union centers and all community groups on the verge of war against the austerity measures decreed by the three levels of government and to which no political party of the opposition seems to be able to make the weight. This day of unprecedented mobilization since 2012 must be seen from two angles. First, as the culmination of several weeks of climbing and then as the starting point for an even bigger climb. Read more →

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News of the IWW!

If the court the last few months we have unfortunately not given to our blog all the attention it deserves, it is certainly not because we chômions! This small article is intended as a summary (not exhaustive) the activities of the Union for All and All for the last month.

internal training

Two trainings were given recently to the local of the Montreal chapter of the IWW. The first, as discussion workshop, led by a graduate of the Bar and a member of the Association of Progressive Lawyers Quebec, participant.es led them to think about the limits of legalism as union action fashion. The second, which took place in September was somehow sway the first, It is the Organizing Training 101, interactive training given over two days bringing participant.es to understand and integrate the steps leading to the creation of an organizing committee at his place of work in order to implement the solidarity unionism of the IWW.

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