Stop Harper’s Cuts

Join a city-wide meeting to plan resistance against austerity

7PM, THURSDAY, SEPT 8
CUPW OFFICE, 377 BANK ST, OTTAWA

Canada’s not broke.

The Harper government and governments around the world have manufactured a false economic crisis. They claim soaring debts mean jobs, pensions, and services must be gutted, while spending record-breaking billions of dollars on corporate tax breaks, slush funds, and war.

The unprecedented use and abuse of back to work legislation in June was just a preview of the kinds of attacks on the labour movement we can expect in the Harper majority era.

Now Harper plans to eliminate 80,000 public sector jobs (1/3 of the public service) according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis of the 2011 federal budget.

When Harper and Canada Post attacked our brothers and sisters at CUPW, together we fought back.

Join us for this important meeting on September 8 to begin mobilizing to stop Harper’s planned cuts to public services and attacks on workers rights.

Convened by People for Postal Workers
www.people4posties.wordpress.com
people.for.postalworkers@gmail.com
Twitter: @people4posties

CUPW Locked Out: What you can do

Join a picket line in your community. Click here for a list of picket lines across Canada.

Visit the People4Posties resources page. Download and distribute materials, including window signs, flyers, placards, and stickers.

Tell Tory Labour Minister Lisa Raitt that free collective bargaining is a right – Email her now.

See CUPW’s Five ways to support CUPW members on strike

Rogue Page Brigette DePape supports CUPW

Rogue Page Brigette DePape shows her solidarity with CUPW at a Stop Harper rally in Ottawa on June 10. Photo by Ben Powless.

People for Postal Workers rally – June 3rd, 2011 – Ottawa

CUPW Local 548 Singing on Hamilton Picket Line

Students show solidarity with CUPW in Gatineau

Rallies in solidarity with CUPW in Ottawa & Gatineau

Today there were two community rallies in the National Capital Region bringing out hundreds of people in solidarity with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The first in Ottawa was organized by People for Postal Workers and the second in Gatineau by the Canadian Federation of Students. Additional photos from the rally in Gatineau are here.

PSAC contingent. Photo by @cindiforeman.

People for Postal Workers spokesperson. Photo by @cindiforeman.

CUPW national president Denis Lemelin. Photo by @cindiforeman.

Past CUPW president Jean-Claude Parrot. Photo by @cindiforeman.

Solidarity Against Austerity. Photo by @matness.

CFS & People4posties in support of CUPW. Photo by @nolore.

People for Postal Workers rally. Photo by @mental_radio.