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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.

lock-outSAGUENAY, 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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complete blockage of the Mapei plant in Laval

Picket hard this morning at the Mapei factory.

Early this morning, sixty workers and workers are gone-e-s lend a hand to the workers and workers of the Mapei plant in Laval, on strike since 4 May 2012.

Specializing in the production of adhesives and chemical products for construction, Mapei is a multinational having 59 production facilities in more than 28 pays. Or, Lavaloise its subsidiary is grappling with a labor dispute that has lasted for more than a year. in addition 2012, to oppose the employer who was trampled negotiations about the collective agreement that expired in December 2011, the 115 Workers of the factory, syndicated-e-s to the CSN, went on strike. Since that time 14 months so, not only the collective agreement is still not renegotiated, Moreover, the bosses of the factory flatly started licensié of employee-s with a view to transferring the means of production to Ontario. This layoff wave has reached its appogé in August 2012 with the closure of 2 departments causing putting unemployed 43 additional workers. Remains today as 25 of the 115 Mapei workers and workers to lead the fight.

The transfer of machinery to Ontario is accentuating, production being maintained by managers and foremen to bypass the anti-scab legislation, which once again, proves we are useless and obsolete. Short, the bad faith of the employers therefore urged members of various leftist groups, including the Industrial Union of Workers and Workers (SITT-IWW), the Internationalist Workers Group (GIO) and Popular Autonomous Association of Montreal (APAM) to appear before the Mapei factory to hold a picket line hard and disrupt production. After two hours of blocking, New truck deliveries had been returned and executives were still, for the majority, held outside the building, the factory management had to resign and close the plant for the day.

Workers present for morning symbolic picket said they were very happy to receive this unexpected show of solidarity on the part of activists from left. Once again, this action proves that it is not in the courts and in the bosses office that fights are won, but rather by workers' solidarity, mobilization and direct action. An attack against one or one of us is an attack against all of us!

You will find right here a short video on the action this morning which also shows the attitude of the trade union and permanent permanent CSN in relation to solidarity and direct action.

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A year lockout for the King of the Cock-Roast

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"The worker class and the ruling class have nothing in common. "Thus begins the Preamble to the Industrial Union of Workers (ITS - IWW). For proof of this, we must not look away. Here in Sherbrooke, local rotisserie is locked out since last year. And this, without "any explanation for workers, for some people, count 42 years, 33 years 30 years of service!"Says M. Lacrité, Central CSN Estrie council.

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