The economic struggle of the working class in Quebec
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- Kenworth Strikers In Canada Stand
Firm
- By Monica Jones, The Militant, 11 September
1995. The strike at the Kenworth truck plant here remains
solid after its third week. The 850 members of Canadian
Auto Workers (CAW) Local 728 are waging the strike to
improve their pension plan.
- Quebec Firestone Strikers: ‘We Have
No Choice’
- The Militant, 22 January 1996. The strike
of 750 workers at the Bridgestone/Firestone tire factory
in Joliette, Quebec, continues with no end in sight.
We
have no choice but to continue the strike; We can't
work under the conditions that the company wants to
impose.
- Nurses' chief slams dissenters
- By Kate Swoger, Montreal Gazette, Saturday
31 July 1999. Quebec Federation of Nurses president Jennie
Skene read dissenting members of her union the riot act
yesterday, accusing them of providing the provincial
government with ammunition against the nurses in their
labour dispute.
- More employees join Montreal truckers'
strike
- CBC Newsworld, 7 November 2000. In a show of support for
truckers involved in an illegal strike, 30 office workers
from two major container terminals walked off the job
Monday. The 30 employees of Cast Canada and Racine
terminals, which handle about 70 per cent of the
containers going through the Port of Montreal, demanded
their employers respect their labour contracts.