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2011 Picket-Line Press November 2011 Issue 5 Phone (613) 301-2988 - Email:[email protected] Follow Us On Facebook - www.facebook.com/OperationChristmasCheer Picket-line solidarity is one of the foundations of trade unionism where the smallest acts of kindness, encouragement, and support give members the strength needed to continue the fight for a fair settlement. Be Union – Buy Union – Support Union! Inside This Issue 1421 Union Families and 281 Children 1 Working to Defend the Next Generation 2 To YOU: From the locals YOU Helped 3 More Notes Of Thanks 4 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words 5 More Pictures : ) 6 A BIG THANK-YOU 7 Special Thanks - OCC Angels 8 1421 Union Families and 281 Children YOUR kindness , compassion , and action Felt Your Love Last Christmas! clearly had an impact and YOU helped to s pread the OPSEU 426 -Rockland, CAW 252 -Toronto, CEP 37X - Cheer this Christmas in record emails, meetings, phone Timmins, USW 526 -Toronto, USW 1-1000 -Pembroke, calls, and faxes! YOUR efforts made Christmas USW 7536 -Toronto, USW 1-500 -Brantford, USW much brighter for 1421 union families 1005 -Hamilton, USW AMCOR –Toronto and USW struggling to make ends meet. 281 children received a toy 8782 -Nanicoke thank you for YOUR support and Christmas morning because YOU cared enough to g et words of encouragement over the holidays. involved. YOUR empathy resulted in 900 smoked hams, 130 turkeys and 366 bags of groceries or ove r Each strike/lock-out has been prolonged and difficult. The 2600 non perishable food items being donated. solidarity , strength , and leadership of these 10 unions and their members, is commendable and inspirational! YOUR generosity broke every record we had to date by raising donations totaling $93,274 which resulted in Taking strike action and challenging an employer’s corporate 1450 grocery gift cards being handed-out to our Brothers agenda and concession demands is not an easy and Sisters walking picket-lines throughout Ontario. decision…especially during an economic downturn. It takes a tremendous amount of courage and determination Alone, we are a group of ordinary people. When we stand to stand up and fight for the future . It becomes together in solidarity we are an extraordinary network even more difficult while enduring the holiday and frigid of 100 + volunteers , 188 union locals , temperatures. It is not uncommon for the members of smaller locals on strike to feel isolated and forgotten. committees , and labour councils . Picket-Line Press OperationCheer.com Page 2 WORKING TOGETHER TO DEFEND THE NE XT GENERATION By Sid Ryan - President, Ontario Federation of Labour Toronto, ON - This year’s Christmas holidays will come at a time when anxiety about the future of jobs is on everyone ’s mind. For the first time in history, today’s children may find themselves less well off than their parents’ generation. Job losses, two-tier wages and increasingly precarious employment could mean that good jobs will be gone before today’s youth enter t he workforce. Over the past year, when CAW, CUPW and CUPE members have pushed back against this attack on the next generation, Prime Minister Harper has sid ed with employers and stripped workers of their colle ctive bargaining rights. Meanwhile, corporate crooks with bad labour records continue to find their stockings filled with gifts from the Harper government. Corporate taxes, which have been cut ten times since the year 2000, were dropped again this year to an all-time low of 25 percent in combined federal and provincial rates, down from 42 percent a decade ago. However, rather than converting these massive savings into new jobs and investments, CEOs and shareholders are pocking this public money and invest ing 7.7 percent less in job-creating machinery, equipment and technology. It looks like this year the top one percent will be getting fat on Christmas turkey while the rest of us get starved out of house and home. Without corporations paying their fair share, the government is left with a $4 billion annual shortfall that will translate into the layoff of 80,000 federal public service employees and thousands of provincial public sector workers. Challenging these cuts isn’t just about sa ving jobs, it is about defending the communities helped by public services and calling on our government to serve the public good, not private profit. For workers and their families who are caught up in protracted labour disputes, the outpouring of solida rity demonstrated on picket lines and through Operation Christmas Cheer is a lifeline that gives the strength needed to continue fighting for a better future for us all. Unions need to bring this optimistic and principled spirit – which was so wonderfully personified by Jack Layton, but is being lived every day by labour activists and volunteers – from the bargaining table to the streets. It is time to mobilize together to put pressure on all levels of government to protect good jobs, public services and retirement security for the next generation. Support OCC - LIKE Our Fan Page and Follow Us on Facebook www.facebook.com/OperationChristmasCheer Picket-Line Press OperationCheer.com Page 3 To YOU : From the Locals/Members YOU Generously Supported CAW 252 - Toronto The 200 Toronto limo drivers who are members of CAW Local 252 and who were locked out for six months by their employer greatly appreciated the grocery store vouchers they received from Operation Christmas Cheer and delivered by Sid Ryan from the OFL last December. This gesture not only put a smile on these CAW members’ faces, it also ensured that they felt part of a bigger and very supportive labour family. This support came at a crucial time for these workers. The lock out ended in May 2011 with all members returning to work. Thanks again and in solidarity. Abbot Harvey, President of CAW Local 252 USW District 6 – Eastern Canada On behalf of USW mem bers and their families across District 6, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your organization for the tremendous work you do to provide the much needed relief during this special time of the year. In 2010, your organization worked clo sely with volunteers from the District. Together we were able to put smiles on the faces of our members during the holiday season. Our Sisters and Brothers at US Steel (Hamilton), ECP (Brantford), Lind Furniture (Mississauga), Multiserv (Nanticoke), Infini ty Rubber (Toronto), Commonwealth Veneer (Pembroke) and Sears (Vaughn) all appreciated the generous donations of food, grocery gift cards and toys your organization provided. This Christmas season we still have a number of locals on strike in the Distr ict and they are in dire need of your assistance. Our Sisters and Brothers at Infinity Rubber (Toronto) are fast approaching two years on the picket line and our members at Alumicor (Toronto) have been on strike for eight months. Commonwealth Veneer (Pembr oke) has been on strike since April 2009 and more recently Inkas (Ottawa) since October 3rd 2011. In each case our members and their families continue to battle their brutal and uncaring employers. In most cases these employers’ only commitment is to the ir shareholders and their bottom line. They forget about the people and the communities they are destroying in the race to the bottom. Your generosity and tenacity gives our members the courage they need to “Stand Up and Fight Back” against their unscrupul ous employers. Once again, many, many thanks for your support and assistance. In Solidarity, Wayne Fraser - Director OPSEU 426 – Rockland • Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You know that feeling you get when you feel kind of down on your luck and then all of a sudden you get a windfall. Your heart melts and your soul soars. You feel like you can take anything on. Well, that's how we felt when you came to visit us on the picket. To know that all those people out there, who gave of their time and money, coming to our aid gives us hope and confirms that we do belong to one great big OPSEU family of brothers and sisters who stand by each other. What an aw esome team you have to help put all this together. My sisters and I would like to wish you and you family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to your team, we will have a better Christmas with our family as well although times are tough for us now. Cheers to you and all who have had a hand with this significant event. Lynne Montague (Steward), Sylive Brunette, Rachelle Carrière, Nathalie Boisvenue, Renée Yuill, Catherine Rusaw, Pauline Deschamps, Karine Giroux. • We don’t feel so alone anymore on our picket-line now knowing there are wonderful people out there who give to our cause whether in time or funds. We are totally amazed at all the outpouring of support from fellow our Brothers and Sisters via Operation Christmas Cheer. It has touched every single one of us a way that we will never forget. Christmas Angels…that’s what you are! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Lynne Forest Montague Picket-Line Press OperationCheer.com Page 4 USW 8782 - Toronto All of the men of USW Local 8782 (Harsco Metals) would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for the gift card s and toys that we received from OCC on the picket line. Spending the past two Christmas on the line has not been easy for some of our members but gestures such as this help to make this Christmas just a little bit brighter.
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