Most years Labour Day marks
the end of the vacation season and a return to the slog. This year is
different. From Canada Post to funeral homes, global furniture retailers
to small town governments, employers have been aggressively pressing their
agenda all summer long. Workers who should have been on holiday were
walking picket lines instead.
On Friday the rest of us will
be heading out to enjoy the long weekend and perhaps a march or a picnic or
some other celebration of Labour Day. Before you go consider lending a
hand to people sitting in an Egyptian prison or walking a picket line in St. John’s
or Toronto or Richmond.
Just a few seconds of your
time can mean a real morale boost for these folks. All our campaigns are
listed along the right side of our Canadian union news page right HERE.
Three are Canadian campaigns, but you can also celebrate Labour Day with
some support for unions in Peru, India, Philippines and the USA. If you
join each and every one of our campaigns you will still have lost no more than
a minute of your long weekend.
Leaving you with 4319 to
enjoy with friends and family. J
On a cheerier note we have
two optimistic items for you this Labour Day weekend. Starting Saturday
you can follow the founding convention of Unifor (the result of the CAW-CEPO
merger) online at www.newunionconvention.ca.
And if you’re in the mood for
new (and free!) takes on union classics you can download a CD’s worth of Labour
Day music from UFCW Canada HERE.
Thanks. Enjoy the long
weekend.