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• CLC DELEGATES BRAVE COLD and rain in Montreal to demonstrate against Tory cuts to Unemployment Insurance.
CLC vows to fight Tory agenda with national days of protest
The message came through loud and clear at the May Canadian Labour Congress convention in Montreal: it's time to get tough with free trade, the goods and services tax and social service cuts.
The need for labour movement action hit the floor on the first day of the convention in a fierce debate on the congress executive's action program, Fighting the Political Platform of the Tories and Big Business.
The program called on the CLC to "organize national days of action against specific parts of the Tory/big business agenda to allow our members to show their anger and frustration toward Tory policies and their support for our alternatives through demonstrations, public forums, sit-ins and other forms of mass mobilization."
But many delegates felt the plan wasn't tough enough or specific enough. "You can look at fish plant workers, electrical
workers, auto workers and others — they are losing their jobs and there will no longer be any social programs to rely on," Canadian Auto Workers president Bob White told the convention. "I don't know if we can win but we goddamn well have to fight."
UFAWU delegate Jim Sinclair told the convention about the closure of the B.C. Packers plant in Victoria throwing 80 workers out of work. "The Tories call free trade the cornerstone of their policy, we call it the tombstone,'' he said. "Hundreds of thousands of people are out of work because of the Tory agenda — who is going to organize the fightback?"
Many delegates spoke of the importance of working with community coalitions and giving support to other social movements. Marion Pollack from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said she was inspired by the women who fought for the women's centres across Canada. "It
shows we can fight the Tories and win," she said. "But we won't win if we fight alone — we need our allies."
Other resolutions passed by the convention included:
• a strong statement condemning violence against women
• a special resolution slamming funding cuts to women's programs and aboriginal people
• a pledge to fight cuts to unemployment insurance
• a fightback against privatization and deregulation
• a plan to defeat the Goods and Services Tax
• policies and action to protect the environment
Former Alberta Federation of Labour president Dave Werlin launched a serious challenge to Shirley Carr's presidency of the Congress, demanding leadership and action from the CLC executive. Carr was re-elected to a third term as CLC president, winning two-thirds of delegate's votes.
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