By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
It’s been barely six weeks since Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a majority in the May 2 Canadian federal election and already the Tories are displaying evidence that they intend to wage an all-out war on the working class – just like their Republican Tea Party brothers are doing in the U.S.
Just ten days into a series of rotating strikes by postal workers, Canada Post has locked out its entire workforce and Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is vowing to legislate the employees back to work in the next two days.
In a similar vein the labour minister is threatening to legislate Air Canada employees back two work – just a day into their strike.
And this flurry of activity against the collective bargaining rights of workers comes just two weeks after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced a very vague budget in which one of the few clear vows was to eliminate thousands of public service jobs. read more »
Daily Archives: June 15, 2011
Harper launches his war against workers
Why a depression is now almost inevitable
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
The past three years have been excruciating for the masses – the poor, the working class and the middle class – across much of the world. But if you think we’ve seen the worst of it, you have another think coming.
The stupendous global redistribution of wealth from the masses to the extreme socioeconomic elite that began 30 years ago is now shifting into high gear as the greed of those who already have far, far more than their fair share becomes absolutely unhinged.
Twenty years after the collapse of Soviet Communism, the corporate capitalists are still so rollickingly giddy in their interminable self-congratulation that they have lost all connection with basic morality or even economic reality. read more »
