Tuesday, December 15, 2009


CANADIAN LABOUR-TORONTO:
SOLIDARITY RALLY WITH STREET HEALTH WORKERS:
Well, this is definitly more than slightly "last minute", in fact well past it. The demo mentioned below is probably going on at this very moment, but if you live down TO way you might be able to catch some of it. This notice came in late last night from the Ontario Coalition against Poverty (OCAP).
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Rally Tomorrow: GAETAN HEROUX FIRED - WORKERS FACE POSSIBLE LOCK OUT:‏
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WORKERS FACE POSSIBLE LOCK OUT
GAETAN HEROUX FIRED
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RALLY - TUESDAY DECEMBER 15 - NOON
Outside Street Health - 338 Dundas St.East
Solidarity Action to Defend Street Health Workers & Services
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Workers at Street Health in Toronto have been fighting for justice, fair working conditions and a first collective agreement, for over a year and a half. During this time pro-union workers have been pushed out, services understaffed/ and programs have been lost. The latest target is Gaetan Heroux and the PAID ID Project. After defending workers' right to organize and refusing to compromise his program, he has now been fired.
Currently the Street Health management has applied for a "No Board" - to put pressure on workers to take a crappy first collective agreement. It also means they could lock out workers and shut down the agency if they want. No one should be placed under such a threat and vital programs and services CANNOT be placed at risk.
Workers go back to bargaining on December 16th and 17th with management; stand in solidarity with them on Tuesday December 15th at 12 noon to demand:
• FAIR Contract NOW for Street Health Workers
• Give Gaetan his job back – Keep the Services at Street Health
• Board of Directors to Meet with the Friends of Street Health
Fighting for the Heart of Street Health - Friends of Street Health –friendsofstreethealth@gmail.com A coalition of former employees, allies and other supporters of Street Health

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a laugh. I regularly visit Sun International casinos and have been following this story in the press. Do some more research and update your blog with the latest facts. For starters the company’s profit isn’t as impressive as you imply – but check this out for yourself as I did. The figures are on their website. And then according to the media, yesterday a court found that the SACCAWU strikers were in fact drunk, had damaged property, issued death threats and beat up a non-striking worker, landing her in hospital. Apparently the security footage showed that the shop stewards were in fact the cause of all the trouble, rather than the poor victims of it. What about this worker who was beaten up? What about HER rights Molly, is she not also a worker with rights too??????


Jayson

mollymew said...

What are you commenting about ? It certainly isn't the article above.