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On this day in 1978, United Steelworkers union workers in Sudbury, Ontario voted to go on strike to fight proposed layoffs and pay cuts. The strike was the longest in Canadian history until the record was broken by Sudbury workers in 2009.

The layoffs and cuts to pay and benefits were at the multi-national company Inco, which cited low nickel prices as a justification.

According to filmmaker Martin Duckworth, workers voted to strike against the advice of the United Steelworkers hierarchy, and the strike enjoyed national support because Inco was a known polluter and one of the biggest multi-nationals in Canada.

Around 11,600 workers were involved in the strike, which affected the wages sustaining 43,000 people, or about 26% of the population of metropolitan Sudbury. By the end of the strike, nine months later, the company had been deprived of over twenty-two million hours of labor.

The workers won small wage increase and a pension package, however thousands of workers lost their homes and cars because of the length of the strike. According to journalist Amy Miller, since 1979, INCO has fired 20,000 employees from their staff and now have more people receiving payments from the pension roll than pay roll.

The role of women in the community during the strike was profiled in the 1980 documentary film A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes).

All Out to Support Striking Vale Inco Workers!

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Was the radicalization of segments of the Ugyhur population part of Operation Cyclone? Or is that a separate thing. Finishing up blowback s4 and had that thought.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

scratched a mole hard enough to bleed while not paying attention last night, but now i can't do anything but think about it stress its not even itchy today but i wana tug on the scab

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[–] Fartster@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People in the US seem extremely shallow and judgemental, and everywhere we go everyone is just loud and BIG PERSONALITIES dominate. Staying in a neighborhood that 10 years ago was predominantly black and Latino and now full of whites with BLM signs and "We support Latinx" in their windows. I hate the terms "woke" and "virtue signaling" but god damn. Someone was really offended at the bar that I mentioned myself and 2 of my roommates were mugged by crackheads in this neighborhood before it was bought out by developers and had world fusion foods with $25 plates and vintage boutiques. Like "we don't talk about that" vibes. Bars full of fat hipster guys and middle aged liberal women who scowl a lot. Everyone talks in a sarcastic quippy tone. Get me the fuck out of this removedry.

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I have actually been thinking about the Sassanian Empire a bit more than Rome lately

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Very cool watching the interest add up on my student loans

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spoilerbananas, sugar and rubber made me think central america so I picked costa rica at first

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

a real hot take but capitalism kind of sucks ngl

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