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Union rally in Vancouver as port strike continues | Winnipeg Free Press (www.winnipegfreepress.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are their demands (more or less exactly)?

It's always easier to defend those workers when we know their demands are reasonable (which most of the time, they are.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From their strike notice:

Our Main Objectives are:

To stop the erosion of our work through Contracting Out

To protect current and future generations from the devastating impacts of Port Automation

To protect longshore workers from record High Inflation and sky rocketing Cost of Living

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still a bit vague, but I hope it's more useful when negotiating.

If you say we want XX% raise it focuses the discussion too much on numbers and sometimes doesn't address the true source of the problems